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RIP, David Hilberman
ASIFA-San Francisco president Karl Cohen forwarded a note to let us know that UPA co-founder and one of the last of the truly great …
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Amid@Platform
I’m still recovering from Annecy but the Platform Festival is coming up in Portland in a few days and it promises to be another intense …
Weather Man
Soundac was the Miami Florida animation studio that did commercials, station IDs, and most famously, the first color cartoon for TV …
UPA-NY TV Spots Donated To MoMA
It was just a couple weeks ago that I was lamenting on the Cartoon Modern blog the unavailability of the UPA commercials. Today I have …
Interviews with Neal Gabler, Tom Sito and Me
A few weeks ago, Mark Lynch of New England public radio station WICN ran two hours of interviews with animation authors on his radio show …
Looney Tunes in Allentown
Opening on Sunday, June 24, 2007, The Art of Warner Bros. Cartoons will fill the Allentown Art Museum’s Kress and Rodale …
Chronicle Blogging
Development piece by John Hubley from UPA’s Rooty Toot (1952). From the collection of Mike Glad. The folks at …
The Great UPA Debate
It all started on John Kricfalusi’s blog in a series of posts where he analyzes UPA’s modern graphics, comparing them to traditional …
Where Are the UPA Shorts?
If there’s one question I’ve received more frequently than any other since the release of Cartoon Modern, it’s “Where can I see the UPA …
Book By Its Cover
Imagine if there was a New York Times Book Review that exclusively covered inspiring art and illustration books. Well, there is such a …
Designing Magoo Express (1955)
There’s a big post at the Cartoon Modern blog about Sterling Sturtevant’s character design work on the 1955 short Magoo Express. The post …
Betty Boop Slept Here
Fleischer Studios made arguably the funniest cartoons of the 1920s and ’30s — and they made them, from 1923 through 1938, in studio …
101 Dalmatians Color Keys by Walt Peregoy
An update at the Cartoon Modern blog: a collection of color keys by Walt Peregoy from Disney’s 101 Dalmatians.
The Hanna-Barbera Workout
3400 Cahuenga Blvd. Thursday, 4.19.07, 2:40pm I was driving south on Cahuenga this afternoon and snapped this pic from my moving car …
US Screenings of Tekkon Kinkreet
Michael Arias, director of Studio4°C’s Tekkon Kinkreet, recently commented on a Cartoon Brew post about upcoming theatrical …
DUBOIS meets FUGGER
This is an entertaining Flash-animated website for DUBOIS meets FUGGER, an advertising and marketing agency. The design of the site is …
Popular Science on Making Snow White
“The Making of Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs,” courtesy of Popular Science Monthly (January 1938). Posted on the Modern Mechanix …
Tekkon Kinkreet
The L.A. Times wrote about this film last month. We told you about it exactly one year ago. From the studio that brought you Mind …
Ottawa 07 Programs and Call for Entries
The Ottawa 2007 International Animation Festival, planned for September 19-23, has announced its slate of special screenings and …
Keep Moving Forward
This isn’t a review or critique of Meet The Robinsons, but I saw the film today at a screening at the El Capitan, in 3-D. In a …
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