Disney

More Disney Insignia

A bit of a follow-up to all the recent posts about Disney insignia from WWII (here and here). There is currently an exhibition at the …

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Disney’s Story of Menstruation

After posts about Disney’s forays into VD prevention and gonorrhea drugs, I’d be remiss to not post Disney’s 1946 film THE STORY OF …

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More Thoughts about Disney-Pixar

Many of the most insightful comments about the Disney-Pixar merger are not coming from the mainstream media, but rather from artists …

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Disney/Pixar: Artists Speak

We asked yesterday evening for artists to send in their thoughts about the Disney/Pixar deal. Below are a select number of the responses …

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Disney+Pixar=?

Former ANIMATO! editor (and current PC WORLD editor) Harry McCracken asks the questions that are weighing heavily on the collective mind …

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Disney/Pixar News Roundup

Good piece in today’s LA TIMES – “Walt’s Shoes at Disney Could Be a Fit for Jobs” – that draws parallels between Jobs and Walt …

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MY TWO CENTS ON DISNEY/PIXAR

I would have preferred that Pixar create its own distribution company and compete with the industry as a full-fledged stand alone player …

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Tom Ray Drawings

Ever since Amid posted the note about the Irv Spence diary, I’ve been thinking and thinking about him…Irv, I mean. I could swear I …

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Life After Disney

Timothy Albee moved to Alaska after working on Disney’s DINOSAUR and created his own 22-minute CG short called KAZE, GHOST WARRIOR. He …

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New Disney Books

Couple new books about Disney. HOW TO BE LIKE WALT: CAPTURING THE DISNEY MAGIC EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE by Pat Williams is a “character …

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KID BEGS DISNEY TO KEEP 2-D

An eighth grader wrote an editorial in today’s New York NEWSDAY, begging Disney not to abandon traditional animation:During spring break, …

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DISNEY CLOSES JAPANESE STUDIO

As part of their worldwide effort to kill traditional hand drawn animation, Disney will fire its Japanese animators in June. Read about …

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DISNEY’S LAST DUD?

Financial website Motley Fool has posted this editorial by Rick Aristotle Munarriz, which asks “Remember when Disney’s golden animated …

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The Disney Strike

Shane Glines has posted an interesting historical artifact on his CartoonRetro.com message board – a comic strip from the publication …

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