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The Twelve Animated Days of Christmas, #9
Today’s entry from the UK is more curio than classic: the 1959 Halas and Batchelor cartoon The Christmas Visitor, directed by John Halas, …
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The Twelve Animated Days of Christmas, #5
The holidays get the ‘cartoon modern’ treatment in this rare 1954 version of Frosty the Snowman directed by Bobe Cannon at UPA.
The Flinstones on Broadway
And you thought the live action movies were the end of it? Think again! I don’t know how I missed this news item buried in a story …
Annual Chronicle Books Sale
My friends at Chronicle Books are having their annual “Friends and Family” sale. Through Friday, December 5, every book ordered from …
Inside Seonna Hong’s Home
Don’t let the title of this post scare you. We haven’t started stalking any animation artists (not yet at least). Thanks to Apartment …
If Disney is Mickey Mouse… is Pixar Silly Symphonies?
Within the last two weeks I saw Disney’s Bolt and rewatched Pixar’s Wall•E (as well as moderating a Q&A with writer/director Andrew …
Disney Comics get topical!
Worthy of noting in this week before the U.S. elections, Gemstone’s Uncle Scrooge #381 (on sale this week, cover pictured below left) …
Creation Mutation
The Girls have announced that Michelle Valigura’s solo show, Creation Mutation will open at M Modern Gallery in Palm Springs this …
Looney Tombs
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the first post by award-winning filmmaker and regular Guest Brewer Pes. Recently I’ve been spending a lot of …
Joe Murray Explains it All…
Artist, illustrator and animator Joe Murray is also one of the most successful cartoon show creators working today. Joe has just produced …
Richard Williams at MoMA
A can’t-miss event is coming up in NY. Richard Williams will appear at the Museum of Modern Art on Monday, September 22. He will discuss …
Rediscovering Irv Spector
Director Michael Sporn has recently been in touch with the son of animation legend Irv Spector. Spector worked as an animator, designer …
The Alchemy of Animation
Head’s up on Don Hahn’s new book The Alchemy of Animation, which will be available on October 7th. Hahn is, of course, the producer of …
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Jerry has posted a super-rare gem on YouTube: the 1965 short The Shooting of Dan McGrew directed by Ed Graham, Jr. I was so excited about …
Endangered Species by Tony White
Endangered Species by Tony White (Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook) is so insidery that it’s doubtful it’ll ever find a mainstream …
Ward Kimball on CinemaScope
Several years ago I curated a program of CinemaScope cartoon shorts from the 1950s, which I screened at the Ottawa Animation Festival, …
Satoshi Kon: Beyond Imagination
Big news for New York anime fans: acclaimed Japanese animation director Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Perfect Blue, etc.) is coming to New York …
Presto and Glago’s Guest
Was privileged to see two new CG shorts last week: Disney Animation’s Glago’s Guest and Pixar’s Presto. Both films couldn’t be more …
Walt and El Grupo
Karl Cohen (president of ASIFA-San Francisco) just sent us his first impressions of Walt and El Grupo the new film by Ted Thomas, which I …
Popular Science on Fantasia Sound
Charles Shopsin has posted a January 1941 article from Popular Science about Disney’s pioneering sound processes for Fantasia on his …
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