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New Markets in Animation

Still from “Why Can’t We Walk Straight In terms of opportunities and amount of work available, there is no better time to be working …

Books

The Best Animation Books of 2009

Here are my picks for the best animation books of 2009. The Colors of Mary Blair –A catalog for an exhibition that happened …

Classic

New Van Beuren DVDs

Animation historian and cartoon archeologist Steve Stanchfield is back with another double header of rare 1930s cartoons from the …

Feature Film

Ice Age Enters Record Books

A fact that took me by surprise: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is now the fifth-highest grossing animated feature of all-time at the …

Books

New Book: Working for Disney

On his blog, Didier Ghez points out an interesting-sounding book that was self-published a few days ago: Working for Disney: 1936-1937, …

Old Brew

Two New Books

Two great new books, mentioned prevously on this site, have finally been published and both are a lot better than I imagined – and highly …

Old Brew

LA TIMES Festival of Books

The largest literary festival in the US, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, takes place this weekend (April 29-30) at the UCLA …

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Rare 1950s animated shorts

Just for fun, here’s title cards for a few shorts which will be included in my forthcoming Chronicle book on 1950s animation design. It’s …

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New Animation Books

Here’s some animation and cartoon-related books coming out in the next few months… Heard any good Mark Twain quotes lately? CHUCK …

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Animated in Montreal

A couple cool cartoon finds to report from my recent sidetrip to Montreal. The first was my discovery of cartoonist La Palme. In one of …

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NEW BOOKS

I went to the Samuel French Bookshop today – still the best book store in L.A. for the latest books on Cinema, TV and animation – and …

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Books By Animators

Here’s a few interesting children’s books I’ve run across recently which feature artwork by animation artists. FLOWER GIRL is illustrated …

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