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 …

Pixar

Up meets Gran Torino

USC film student Daniel Johnson noticed a few similarities between Pixar’s Up and Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino. So he recut Up’s trailer …

Cartoon Culture

Awards Season

Within the last few days, many of the Hollywood award associations and motion picture critics have selected their best-of picks for 2009. …

Disney

Epic Misney

When Disney’s acquisition of Marvel first became news we did a post inviting artists to show off their best visions of the merger. Now, …

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 …

Comics

The Sunday Funnies 12/13/09

Our weekly survey of comic strips and editorial cartoons that reference animation characters. Glen and Gary McCoy’s The Flying …

Animators

Meet Dilworth!

The Oscar nominated animator and creator of Cartoon Network’s Courage the Cowardly Dog will present the best of his films and other …

TV

Tele-tactics

Back around 1975-1977 there was a 3rd-rate non-union animation studio in New York that many of my friends worked for. It was called …

Events

Day Two: CTN Expo with Don & Gary

And on the Second Day, the CTN Expo became Comic Con for animators. Day 2 at CTN-X was wall-to-wall with attendees, standing room …

Events

Academy Salute to UPA in New York

I just found out that as part of its monthly Monday Nights With Oscar film series in New York, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and …

Cartoon Culture

Raymond Scott, Doc!

Film editor Stan Warnow has made a documentary about his father, the musician/composer/inventor Raymond Scott. Deconstructing Dad: the …

Disney

Love

The soundtrack of Fantastic Mr. Fox, like all Wes Anderson films, is loaded with great music that punctuate the situations. Anyone who …

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