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French Comedian Launches Prime-Time Animated Sitcom with Distributor 9 Story & Oasis Animation
Toronto-based production and distribution studio 9 Story Entertainment has signed on as the worldwide distributor of Ben’s City …
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BOOK EXCERPT: “Directing Animation”
New York animation director and ASIFA-East president David Levy has written a trio of helpful books aimed at young artists entering the …
Starz Animation Toronto Sold to Canadian Investor Group
Toronto, Ont. — March 3, 2011 — Starz, LLC, has completed a transaction resulting in a Canadian investor group purchasing a majority …
Anime Sensei to Student: “Get A Life!”
Veteran anime director Yoshiyuki Tomino (Brave Raideen, Mobile Suit Gundam) gave a realistic, yet somewhat harsh response to a student’s …
How Jeffrey Katzenberg Convinced Me To Drop Out of CalArts
Katzenberg (left) speaking at CalArts last October (Photo via 24700 blog) Good read: a delightfully bizarre blog post from last …
An Appreciation of Alberto Mielgo’s Background Paintings
I try not to fall into the trap of choosing artistic favorites–different works deserve appreciation for different reasons–but if …
CTN Expo to screen “The Illusionist”
Here’s another update from the folks at the upcoming CTN Expo: Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist is now set for an opening night advance …
Shelter Stories
Speaking of animator Paul Fierlinger (as we did yesterday), The Animal Shelter Project and the Humane Society have brought Fierlinger …
Popular Science/Fleischer App
Shields Pictures, the owners of the old Paramount Pictures Popular Science theatrical shorts, just recently released their very first App …
Block Party Rip-Off?
Speaking of things that may or may not be rip-offs, Adult Swim recently wrapped up a nation-wide block party tour that married live music …
1940 textbook predicts animated Penguins
I had a wonderful time in the City of Orange yesterday, guest speaking at Bill Kroyer’s class at Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. …
Vanity Fair on Disney’s Ink-and-Paint Girls
Patricia Zohn writes about Disney’s ink-and-paint girls in this month’s Vanity Fair. She started researching the topic after speaking to …
Box Office Report
A Christmas Carol pulled in $30 million last weekend, falling short of industry expectations, which had ranged from $35 to $40 million. …
Stan VanDerBeek Retrospective in Ottawa
There’s a lot of good stuff happening at the Ottawa International Animation Festival this week. Eric Goldberg, Henry Selick, David …
Popeye sings Looney Tunes theme
Speaking of Popeye (as we were here)… his voice croons one of the greatest cartoon theme songs of all time. No, not “I’m Popeye The …
New Disney Strike footage
The folks at the John Basmajian Collection have just unearthed – and posted – a reel of rare 8mm film footage of the infamous 1941 Disney …
10 for Best Picture
It was announced yesterday that the Academy will now nominate ten films for Best Picture. From their press release:For more than a decade …
Coyote catches Road Runner
Speaking of Chuck Jones, an anonymous Argentinian Youtube user called “Lafacukur” recently uploaded a video of an edited version of the …
Harvey Talk
Next Friday you can meet me at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in New York City where I will speaking about the origins of Harvey …
The Harvey Girls
Going on sale sometime within the next month is the fifth volume (our last, for now) of my and Leslie Cabarga’s Harvey Comics Classics …
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