Cartoon Culture

Michael Jackson, RIP

I didn’t expect to be using this picture in such a sad context, but here is a photo of Michael Jackson visiting with Ward and Betty …

Cartoon Culture

Man Vs. Cartoon

I’ve been remiss in mentioning the new limited TV series from Warner Bros. – Man Vs. Cartoon – which began last night on cable’s TRU TV. …

Books

2009 Animation Book Preview

While the Internet has killed off the print animation magazine (or at least the demand for such publications), it hasn’t yet diminished …

Disney

Best. Disneyland. Photos. Ever!

Here’s a few Kodak Moments that I’ll bet Disneyland would rather soon forget. Several blogs and news agencies are posting these …

Internet/Blogs

Who Needs to Pitch?

LA Weekly has two articles this week profiling Amy Winfrey and her animated webseries Making Fiends and Stefan Bucher’s Daily Monster …

Classic

Unpaid Stars of the Movies

This 1930 article from Popular Mechanics magazine (below) tries to explain the process of recording sound for animated cartoons in …

Cartoon Culture

Drawing The Sailor

Our buddy Oscar Grillo (above) writes about his latest exhibit of drawings and paintings inspired by a certain spinach eating sailor-man. …

Animators

Funny Animation on The Simpsons

This new video posted onto YouTube showcases some of the cartoonier moments (in slo-mo) from early Simpsons episodes. According to the …

CGI

Postmodern Times by Joao Amorim

Postmodern Times is a new series of short animated films presenting “ideas about global consciousness and techniques for social and …

Classic

Pingwings Rediscovered

Tony Mines of Spite Your Face Productions sent me a note about an early-1960s British animated series, The Pingwings, which had been …

Classic

Vintage Cartoon Articles

Charles Shopsin has been semi-regularly posting old articles on early cartoon production, from 1920s-1930s science and mechanics …

Advertising

J.J. at the NY Comic Con

J. J. Sedelmaier (The Ambiguously Gay Duo, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, The Colbert Report’s Tek Jansen, etc.) will be back next …

Old Brew

Fantasia Overrated?

“[FANTASIA] is a mishmash of pedantic narration and erratic tone (the finale’s soul-sucking demon gives the death of Bambi’s mom a run …

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