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Interview with John Canemaker about Two Guys Named Joe
John Canemaker’s eagerly anticipated book, Two Guys Named Joe: Master Animation Storytellers Joe Grant & Joe Ranft, will arrive in stores …
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Buy the Home of a Disney Legend
The home of Disney Imagineering legend Fred Joerger is currently on the market for just under half a million dollars. It’s located in …
Long Drawn-Out Trip by Gerald Scarfe
The Lost Continent is a real treasure of a blog and has introduced me to lots of great British animation over the past few months, some …
FRIDAY in LA: Yuri Norstein at USC
Heads up, Angelenos. The USC School of Cinematic Arts invites you (or anyone who can get to USC this Friday) to participate in a …
Imagi Shuts Down US Studio
Imagi, the studio responsible for the TMNT and Astro Boy features, has shut down their American studio in Sherman Oaks, California. The …
2009 Brew Holiday Gift Guide #1: Richard Wiliams Masterclass
This review is long overdue – by a year in fact – and I hope Richard Williams and Mo Sutton can forgive me for the delay. They sent me a …
Two Guys Named Joe by John Canemaker
John Canemaker’s next book is available for pre-order on Amazon. Two Guys Named Joe: Master Animation Storytellers Joe Grant and Joe …
Three Weeks of Animation on Shokus Internet Radio
Shokus Internet Radio is beginning a three-week arc saluting the animation industry starting today with two of the best voiceover artists …
Book Review: South of the Border with Disney
The Three Caballeros will always hold a place in my heart. As a child of the 1960s and early 70s, at a time when my class mates were …
REVIEW: Miyazaki’s Ponyo
I just saw the most surreal film released under the Walt Disney banner since… I dunno, The Three Caballeros? Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo …
Cupid Gets Some New Dope Powers
“Yo! You down wit’ dis? Listen up, I hear Cupid got some new dope powers…” Man, I love classic cartoon posters, but this one from 1917 …
Ottawa on a Budget
Among the many benefits of living on the East Coast is that it’s a fairly close haul up to the Ottawa International Animation Festival, …
“Yip” Harburg at Fleischer
Did you know songwriter E.Y. “Yip” Harburg (lyricist of The Wizard of Oz, Gay Purr-ee and much else) wrote material for the Max Fleischer …
Crumley Cogwheel (1962)
Another week, another oddball adult-skewing Paramount cartoon from the 1960s. Unlike previous films I’ve posted recently, this one was …
Ray Aragon, 1926-2009
Animation artist Ray Aragon passed away on Sunday, March 15, at the age of 83. He had been in poor health in recent months. Aragon was …
Linda Simensky
Linda Simensky is currently Senior Director of Children’s Programming for PBS. Simensky began her career with a nine-year tenure at …
Varmints Trailer
Studio AKA has released the trailer to Varmints, a followup to the 2004 BAFTA-winning short JoJo in the Stars. I’ve always loved the way …
Jerry at Comic Con
The San Diego Comic Con commences next week and I’ll be there. If you want to meet me and say hello, I’ll be signing copies of my book …
The Disney Girls
I’m fascinated by the continually emerging stories of women who worked in creative positions at Disney during its Golden Age. Women …
The Art of Pixar’s Short Films
A while back I mentioned briefly on this site that I had been offered an opportunity to write a book for Pixar, and today I thought I’d …
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