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Saturday Morning Stroll
Saturday, July 31, 2004_________________________ Even though I’ve been here eighteen days (Christ, is that all? It seems like a …
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A Little Abstraction
It’s not often that a trailer for an abstract/non-narrative animated short interests me enough to want to write about it, but the trailer …
Monday Inspiration
A model sheet from the “All the Cats Join In” sequence of Disney’s MAKE MINE MUSIC (1946). Drawings are likely by Freddie Moore. (click …
Appreciating Hirschfeld
Here’s a nice appreciation of caricaturist Al Hirschfeld written by fellow cartoonist Bob Staake. (via Shane Glines)
Home, Sweet (Icelandic) Home
Friday, July 23, 2004_________________________ The alert reader will notice that there was no description of yesterday’s events. We …
First Brando, now Chris Reeve…
When Brando died, he left behind an embarassing voice track for an awful looking animated film. Apparently Kal-El is following in …
Some Rumors on the Internets
> Archive.org has posted another industrial film worth checking out: MAN ON THE LAND, a 1951 UPA production designed by Bill Hurtz for …
Clean Streets and New Friends
Wednesday, July 21, 2004_________________________ What grim and violent ancestors these nice Icelandic natives must have had! The …
Book Plugs
BREW pal, New York cartoonist/animator Mark Newgarden, has written a new book which I’m very much looking forward to picking up when it’s …
ORIGINAL TITLES
Long time readers of my Cartoon Research website know that I’m absolutely fanatic over original titles. In fact I have a whole section of …
ROAST AN ANIMATOR
On November 9th at 7pm, at New York comedy club Carolines On Broadway, Bill Plympton will be “roasted” by some of New York’s best known …
Animated in Montreal
A couple cool cartoon finds to report from my recent sidetrip to Montreal. The first was my discovery of cartoonist La Palme. In one of …
Sleep…Finally
Friday, July 16, 2004_________________________Jumping Jesus on a smoldering birch bark canoe, these slave-driving Vikings have got me …
REMEMBERING FRANK
Charicature byOllie JohnstonLast night at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Disney held a memorial for Frank Thomas. It was a …
Ottawa Over…
Ottawa ’04 has concluded and a complete list of winners can be found HERE. Grand prize for short film went to Chris Landreth’s RYAN and …
SURVEY RESULTS
According to the results of a just-released survey on behalf of Boomerang UK, Tom & Jerry are the most popular cartoon characters of …
AN OPEN LETTER TO COMCAST
Sony officially announced it’s intent to buy MGM this week. To raise the billion-dollar plus asking price needed to make the purchase, …
VAN BEUREN SCREENING
Reminder: Saturday afternoon (9/25) Mark Kausler and I are hosting an Asifa Hollywood screening of classic Van Beuren TOM & JERRY …
Amid in Ottawa
I’m off to the Ottawa Animation Festival, which starts this evening (it’s going to be a mighty long day). There’s an amazing line-up of …
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