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COMMENTARY: To Pitch Or Not To Pitch?
A few weeks ago, I commended New York animator Pat Smith for making this comment in an ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE interview: “The …
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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 …
Major Disney Exhibit in Paris
I’ve known about this exhibition for a while, but it didn’t occur to me that I should post about it until a friend mentioned that it …
HARVEY COMICS BOOK
Like the Famous Studios cartoons which inspired (and ultimately dominated) them, Harvey Comics has gotten little attention (or respect) …
POLAR PLAYMATES
Three nice cels from Polar Playmates (1946) are currently up for sale on ebay.Polar Playmates, directed by former Disney animator Howard …
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 …
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 …
BOB BOYLE’S NEW SHOWS
Welcome to the Boyle-Age of cartoons!Last week I was invited to breakfast on the Disney lot and had a look behind the scenes of Toon …
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 …
LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION #4
Warner Bros. has announced the November 14th release date for the
Freddie Moore Slandered Again?
Jeff Lenburg’s new book WHO’S WHO IN ANIMATED CARTOONS apparently continues to perpetuate one of the big lies of animation history: that …
COMIC CON RECAP #3: A COMIC BOOK REVIEW
I’m still going over the booty I obtained at the San Diego Comic Con last weekend. One thing I didn’t devote enough time to at the Comic …
KING LEONARDO ON BLACK FAMILY CHANNEL
Classic cartoons (and by that I mean the wide swath of animation history from 1906 to its dying days in the 1970s) are practically …
MEDICAL TOONS
Rarely screened historic medical cartoons will be featured in a film series this fall at the National Academies in Washington DC. The …
RUFUS RESTORED!
This is the biggest animation history find since fragments of Elmo Aardvark began appearing in the 1990s! Two copies of the long lost, …
SDCC: John Kricfalusi
I first met John K in San Diego eleven years ago so it’s only fitting to mention that John will be in attendance at this year’s …
Cartoon Network: At Least Our Dialogue is Funny
I don’t expect much from Cartoon Network these days. After all, this is the same “Cartoon” Network that announced a few months back that …
A LOST WARNER BROS. CARTOON
Thanks to the restoration efforts of Warner Home Video, and the series of Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD sets, there are (or will be) …
RANDOM PLUGS FOR A HOLIDAY WEEKEND
Stop-motion animator Joel Fletcher (Nightmare Before Christmas, Dinosaur, King Kong, Land Of The Lost, X-Men: The Last Stand) has …
Fleischer At The Trocadero
Dave Fleischer left Miami based Fleischer Studios in 1942 and bolted to the west coast where he was offered the job of producer, …
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