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Max & Co
Here’s another film to look out for. The winner of the public prize at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival was a stop motion puppet …
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Animation in Columbus Ohio
Coming up in November is a series of unique animation programs at the Wexner Center for the Arts, on the campus of The Ohio State …
Popeye Song Folio
One of the best pieces of Fleischer Popeye memoribilia ever created was a 32 page compilation of sheet music, the Popeye Song Folio, …
Mach 5 Go-Go-Go!
Looks like they’ve nailed it. Considering the track record of most cartoon-to-live action movies, I’m not getting too excited about …
Viacom sells Famous Music
Well, there goes Popeye the Sailor Man, It’s A Hap-Hap Happy Day and Casper The Friendly Ghost. Not the characters (they were sold off …
Alone, Stinking & Unafraid: Ballad of a Thin Man
In this new installment of Alone, Stinking and Unafraid, Chris Robinson assesses the life of troubled Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, who …
Peter Kleinow (1934-2007)
Another of the old guard of animation, Pete Kleinow, has passed away. He was both a stop motion animator (with Art Clokey), and a renown …
REMEMBERING JOSEPH BARBERA (1911-2006)
Caricature by Patrick Owsley This post will be continually updated with stories and remembrances about Joseph Barbera (1911-2006). …
ONE GOT FAT
It’s been a Ralph Hulett kind of week around here. First it was his Christmas cards, now here’s a link to ONE GOT FAT, a bizarre …
MR. BUG AT MOMA
Long before Paramount Pictures was affiliated with Nickelodeon Movies… a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away… they had an …
Amid in Ottawa, Eh?
Tomorrow I’m off to the yearly North American gathering of the animation tribe, otherwise known as the Ottawa International Animation …
Bill Justice on the SNOW WHITE Wrap Party
Disney historian Jim Korkis follows up on my post about the SNOW WHITE wrap party and sends in this excerpt from an interview he did with …
WHAT THE DICKENS?
There’s a really good Flash animation piece on the BBC website created as biographical background relating to their mini series of …
All About Charlie (Charles) Byrne
We get letters. From Stacey Byrne-GibbsMy father, who is now 89 years old had two brothers (Tom and Charles / Charlie) who were both …
WE ARE THE STRANGE
Here’s an odd one.We are the Strange is an independent animated feature film about “two outcasts caught in the middle of a deadly battle …
LITTLE MAN = BABY BUGGY BUNNY
I noticed the similarities to the current feature film LITTLE MAN to a particular Bugs Bunny cartoon when I first saw the trailer back on …
Two New Books
Two great new books, mentioned prevously on this site, have finally been published and both are a lot better than I imagined – and highly …
TOBY BLUTH DOES POPEYE & BETTY BOOP
The Great American Ink animation gallery in Brentwood, CA has commissioned animation artist and director Toby Bluth (brother of Don) to …
BABY BUGGY BUNNY (1954) = LITTLE MAN (2006)
I had a theory years ago… the greatest generator of modern Hollywood movie ideas must be the plot synopsis sections of Leonard Maltin’s …
Rick Goldschmidt sings!
I have no idea if this new CD by animation historian Rick Goldschmidt is any good – but any excuse to post some new artwork by animation …
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