Classic

“Snuffy Smith” by Jim Tyer

Someone just posted on You Tube several of the rarely seen 1963 King Features Snuffy Smith cartoons that were animated by Jim Tyer. Tyer …

Books

Saturday Book Review

Here’s a roundup of few new books that several publishers and authors were kind enough to send my way: ANIMATED PERFORMANCE (Ava …

Events

Comic Con 2010

I’m on my way to “Comic Con” (aka today’s activities. Tomorrow (Saturday begins with a SpongeBob panel with producer Paul Tibbitt, …

CGI

Homunculus by Sam Stephens

An animated short directed by Sam Stephens from Humble’s in-house directing collaborative Hydra. The film combines photography of …

Books

“The Story of Weston Woods”

I’ve been watching Weston Woods productions all my life and I never really realized it – and you probably haven’t either. I don’t know …

Animators

Fred Wolf retrospective

Speaking of Ninja Turtles… My next screening at the Cinefamily/Silent Movie Theatre in Hollywood is a tribute to animator Fred Wolf. …

Classic

The King Of Jazz

Walter Lantz animated a short sequence for the Universal feature King Of Jazz (released 3/30/30). The sequence is notable as the first …

Classic

Harry Happy (1963)

I got such a good reaction to the previous 1960s Paramount cartoon that I posted last week, I couldn’t resist torturing you with …

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