“Tintin” Ushers in a New Era of Photoreal Cartoons
This is not a review of the Adventures of Tintin. I think we can all agree there have been enough of those already. My primary interest …
This is not a review of the Adventures of Tintin. I think we can all agree there have been enough of those already. My primary interest …
We're taking a closer look at underappreciated stop-motion features from the last 100 years.
Historian Vincent Alexander has exhumed a frightening list of stop-motion gems worth dusting off this Halloween.
Add "The Addams Family" to a long year of animated Hollywood clunkers.
While animation has been made in Romania for many decades and the country has even produced some internationally recognized figures like Ion Popescu-Gopo, the contemporary animation scene hadn't received much exposure until the founding of the Anim'est festival.
Pioneered by children, legitimized by people looking up weird stuff on YouTube, vitalized by online hoaxes, and existing entirely outside any kind of aesthetic considerations, fanime is something that could only have developed on the web.
Pre-school animation appears to have something of a stigma in the United States. Cartoons targeted at children aged 6-11, such as …
Be prepared, foolish mortals! For the fifth year in a row, I will be screening a selection of spooky, kooky, strange and creepy …
A couple of cool Halloween happenings in Los Angeles next weekend I thought you should know about. Both related to Rankin-Bass’ classic …
IT’S CHILLS AND THRILLS THIS HALLOWEEN WITH EVERYONE’S FAVORITE ANIMATED CAT AND MOUSE DUO IN TOM & JERRY: TRICKS AND …
For the fourth year in a row, Brewmaster Jerry Beck will be programming a selection of strange and creepy Halloween related animated …
If you can’t find me in October, you aren’t trying hard enough. But before we discuss October, tonight Cartoon Dump (9/27) returns with …
I don’t know about where you live, but popping up all over L.A. are these scary billboards (see above) promoting The Hub, Hasbro and …
BLAM! A series of obese Disney princesses drawn by Aly. Maybe they should lay off the Blam-burgers. More lovely ladies after the …
His involvement with the animation world was relatively brief, but his inspiration to artists, animators and cartoonists, world over, …
For the second year in a row, Brewmaster Jerry Beck will be programming a selection of strange and creepy Halloween related animated …
Take your pick: yours truly, Jerry Beck, will appear on stage, on screen and in print tomorrow, Tuesday October 21st. In Print: …
On Tuesday October 21st I’ll be screening a selection of spooky, kooky, strange and creepy Halloween related animated cartoons at the …
Captain Fathom was the third and final cartoon series produced by Cambria Productions in their patented Synchro-Vox system. This was the …
I’m continuing to watch Voom’s THE CLASSICS animation block in HDTV on the Animania channel, and while I do, I’m mulling over matters …