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“Li’l Abner” Creator Al Capp Harasses John Lennon And Yoko Ono
The great American diplomat and Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson may have well been talking about Li’l Abner creator Al Capp when …
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Animation Studies Vol. 2
Volume 2 (2007) of the Society for Animation Studies’ peer-reviewed on-line journal is now available for download (as a PDF or html file) …
Lili Chin and Eddie Mort Abandon Flash
Everybody has been jumping on the Flash bandwagon these past few years, but could 2008 be the year that animators begin abandoning the …
Lost Classics from Zagreb Film DVD & Contest
Last year saw the release of lots of rare animation (Popeye, Lantz cartoons, Oswald, etc.) but perhaps none so rare as a dvd that came …
Holiday Gift Ideas: Screening Room dvds
A company called Documentary Educational Resources (DER) has begun releasing episodes of a rare 1970s tv series called Screening Room …
Animated Movie Titles
It’s funny how movie title sequences have now been moved to the back of the film. But that hasn’t stopped filmmakers from producing the …
The World Is Your Canvas
Who needs pencil and paper? Italian graffiti artist and painter Blu paints his animation onto the ground and walls. His latest piece, …
Harman & Ising VD film
As long as we are exploring The Smoking Gun – check out this mainly live action, somewhat campy, obscure educational film by Hugh Harman …
Mug Shots
The Smoking Gun presents an assortment of iconic American cartoon stars depicted on the shirts of these recent arrestees. (Thanks, …
San Diego Comic Con: Animation Programming
They’ve just posted the complete schedule of programming for the San Diego Comic Con, July 26-29. Below I’ve extracted the animation …
Platform Snaps
I’ll share my thoughts on the Platform festival in a bit, but first, a few snaps from this past week. As you can probably tell from these …
The Ralph Bakshi Book Project
I’ve known about this for a while and am excited that I can finally let everybody know about it. Pals Jon Gibson (of I Am 8-Bit fame) and …
Der Fuehrer’s Face
David Lesjack, on his Toons At War blog, has begun series of posts about Disney’s 1942 Academy Award winning short Der Fuehrer’s Face. …
Carol Burnett Vs. Family Guy
Go, Carol, go! Carol Burnett has filed a $2 million copyright infringement lawsuit against 20th Century Fox, claiming her cleaning …
Announcing CartoonBrewFilms
We are happy and excited to announce the launch of CartoonBrewFilms.com, a new site that makes the world’s finest animated shorts …
Pinocchio Scene by Scene
There is an important Disney history triple-play going on at three of our favorite blogs. Michael Sporn got the ball rolling last year …
New Cover For Animation Art
Three years ago, I – and twenty-three colleagues of mine – put together an illustrated animation …
Samurai By Three Legged Legs
SAMURAI, a slickly produced and visually striking mini-film created for GE’s “Imagination at Work” campaign, tells “a tale of a …
ESURANCE SPOTS CONFUSING?
The Esurance animated commercials – produced by Ghostbot and Wild Brain – look great, but are they good at selling car insurance? Ad …
All About Charlie (Charles) Byrne
We get letters. From Stacey Byrne-GibbsMy father, who is now 89 years old had two brothers (Tom and Charles / Charlie) who were both …
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