Cartoon Culture

Popeye Bonus Material

Here’s a couple of odds and ends that won’t be found on any Popeye DVD collection anytime soon… Sounds like Jackson Beck Allen …

Internet/Blogs

Stu’s Show

A quick plug for Stu’s Show, the internet radio program devoted to nostalgic pop culture. I’ll be on later this month (August 22) to …

Books

The Colored Cartoon

Heads up: University of Massachusetts Press has announced the publication of The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American …

Classic

Popeye DVD: Bonus Materials

This is the original main title, unseen for 70 years, to Popeye The Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves, shot with my cel phone camera …

Animators

Weather Man

Soundac was the Miami Florida animation studio that did commercials, station IDs, and most famously, the first color cartoon for TV …

Books

Chronicle Blogging

Development piece by John Hubley from UPA’s Rooty Toot (1952). From the collection of Mike Glad. The folks at …

Classic

Viacom sells Famous Music

Well, there goes Popeye the Sailor Man, It’s A Hap-Hap Happy Day and Casper The Friendly Ghost. Not the characters (they were sold off …

Events

Too Art For TV, Too

The first one was a big success, so here comes Too Art for TV, Too, the second annual exhibition of personal art by New York’s animation …

Books

Animation Artist Autobiographies

Inspired by Michael Sporn’s recent series of posts about his favorite animation books, I wanted to share this list I’d compiled a while …

Disney

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. …

BrewFilms

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 …

Events

Freehead Benefit Concert

Cartoonist extraordinaire Jim Smith (Ren & Stimpy, Samurai Jack, The Ripping Friends) will be performing a “farewell concert” with the …

Animators

Thorndyke on Mercer and Crandall

Here’s an oddity. I found a copy of cartoonist Chuck Thorndyke’s 1939 book The Business of Cartooning: The Success Stories of the …

Books

Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life

Man, I can’t wait for this one! Ammo Books is getting ready to release what could become one of the must-have books of recent times: a …

Classic

Cool McCool

Cool McCool was not a great cartoon show. In fact, it was downright poor. Created by Bob Kane (of Batman and Courageous Cat fame), and …

Animators

Chris Ishii’s Lil’ Neebo

I was bummed when animation artist Chris Ishii passed away in 2001 because I’d had his phone number on my desktop for quite a while and …

Classic

Raid spot by Tex Avery

Mark Evanier posted this Tex Avery-directed Raid commercial on his blog and I couldn’t resist linking to it as well. At the risk of …

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