Comics

The Sunday Funnies (12/20/09)

Our weekly survey of recent comic strips and editorial cartoons that reference animation characters. Mike Peters in the Dayton Daily …

Feature Film

Box Office Report

A Christmas Carol pulled in $30 million last weekend, falling short of industry expectations, which had ranged from $35 to $40 million. …

Cartoon Culture

The Gathering

The San Diego Union Tribune is reporting on a controversy brewing at the Chuck Jones Gallery over a new one-of-a-kind oil painting …

Classic

Thurl, Thurl, Thurl

Ahhh… The joys of Thurl collecting. If you love old cartoons (or are simply addicted to Kellogg’s Sugar Frosted Flakes) then you …

Shorts

Alexei Karayev’s Welcome (1986)

What would happen if some Russians took a Dr. Seuss story and turned it into a paint-on-glass animated short? The results would be …

Old Brew

SD CON: Floyd Norman

Animation legend Floyd Norman’s new book HOW THE GRINCH STOLE DISNEY debuts in San Diego this week. In this third volume of gag drawings, …

Old Brew

Thurl Ravenscroft 1914-2005

Thurl Ravenscroft, who roared “They’re Grrrrreeeat!” in Kellogg’s Tony the Tiger ads and voiced a host of Disney characters, died Sunday …

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