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John Korty’s Brock & Throck

It’s Election Day here in the US so it’s only fitting to mention a new politically-oriented Flash Webcartoon. The series, BROCK & THROCK …

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DATE WITH DIZZY (1956)

What an awesome way to start a Monday morning! Josh of the Jazz:Animated blog has posted onto YouTube the difficult-to-find 1956 John …

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Terry Teachout on Why YouTube Rocks

Despite some missteps on YouTube’s part, like the unnecessary removal of dozens of public domain cartoons from its site, I’m still a huge …

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Bernard Wolf (1911-2006)

Animation veteran Berny Wolf died last week at the age of 95. He had incredible success in the field, with work ranging from pioneering …

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Best Animation Party…Ever!

In 1938, after Disney’s first feature SNOW WHITE was a bona fide success, Walt held a huge crew party for his artists at a place called …

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Jan Svochak (1926-2006)

J.J. Sedelmaier sends us this sad news:I just wanted to let you and others know that Jan Svochak passed away yesterday afternoon. He was …

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Ed Benedict (1912-2006), RIP

Earlier this evening I received word from Van Partible and David Sheldon that animation legend Ed Benedict passed away in his sleep this …

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More animation artist blogs…

It’s getting so that every animation artist has a blog. Maybe in the next update, I’ll do a post about artists who don’t have blogs. Now …

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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 …

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Greenblatt’s Chowder

It seems that ex-SPONGEBOB’ers are turning out to be good content providers for Cartoon Network. First, it was Aaron Springer’s KORGOTH …

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Fuming over Tom & Jerry’s Fumes

At least a half dozen people have emailed me about Turner Broadcasting’s decision in Britain to start censoring over 1500 Hanna-Barbera …

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SDCC: Maverix Studios

Maverix Studios is a San Francisco-based collective of animation and comic artists. They’ll be exhibiting in San Diego this year at booth …

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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 …

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RARE BUGS BUNNY CLIP

You won’t see this as bonus material on the LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION dvd series. Here is the rare 1944 George Pal Puppetoon, Jasper …

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SPRITE ANIMATION

Sprite Animation Studios has set up shop over at the Howard Hughes Center in West Los Angeles. The image above is from their first …

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