Events

Tuesday screening: Toons In Drag

For my Cinefamily animation screening this month we’re examining the cartoons (and especially Bugs Bunny) where male characters dress …

Bad Ideas

SpongeBob Untooned

My eyes cannot unsee what has been seen, and now neither can yours. This rendition of Spongebob combines a real sponge, features of Tom …

Cartoon Culture

Toon Funeral Home

Illustrator Joe Fournier spotted this worrisome sign in Illinois. [Insert your Cartoon Network jokes here.]

Events

ToonSeum

A new museum of animation, cartoon and comic art has opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It’s called ToonSeum and it just had its grand …

TV

Teletoon’s Detour pilots

I don’t know if these will be as exciting as CN’s unaired Cartoonstitute pilots we featured a while back, but Canada’s Teletoon network …

TV

Meet the new Nicktoon

Disney buys Marvel, so it only stands to reason that Nickelodeon would pick up Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But Nick didn’t just buy …

Events

Tashlin Toons Tonight!

One more tiny plug for my cartoon screening tonight in Hollywood. I’m presenting a full program of classic Frank Tashlin Cartoons at the …

Classic

Sporn on Terrytoons

Michael Sporn’s Splog is a daily must-read for anyone interested in cartoons, their history and the experiences of a life-long New York …

Business

MyToons No More

We heard last week that the MyToons site had shut down for good. MyToons, for those who don’t know, was a “social networking” site for …

Classic

The Last Terrytoon one-shot

I’m back with another lame attempt by a classic cartoon studio to be relevant in the 1960s. Today I’ve got what I believe is the last …

Classic

Evil Toons

Director Fred Olen Ray: “So I’m sitting in this movie theater one day and I’m watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit and I see Jessica …

Business

Adobe vs Toon Boom

There’s a war brewing in the animation software world and Cartoon Brew is right in the thick of it. In fact, I only became aware of the …

Disney

Bye Bye Toon Disney

The LA Times is reporting that the ten-year-old Toon Disney cable channel will be rebranded next February as Disney XD. The new format …

Classic

Cultoons Vol. 3

Just out from Steve Stanchfield’s Thunderbean Animation is Cultoons 3, a new DVD set which continues his madness of releasing cartoons …

Classic

The Last Terrytoons

The cartoons posted below are two semi-rare TV pilots. They are not particularly good and I direct you to them only for historical …

Animators

Rare Terrytoon photos

That’s Gene Deitch (left) examining cels of Bert and Harry Piels (of the famed Piels Beer commercials) with director Connie Rasinski in …

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