Events

Animagination

Youth Opportunities United (aka YOU) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of abused and neglected children in …

Shorts

Iraqi Kurdistan by Ed Kashi

Today’s post about the pixilated shorts of Chuck Menville and Len Janson makes me want to point out a more recent short in a similar …

Classic

Woody Woodpecker on DVD

Guess Who? I’m very happy to announce that Universal is releasing The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection on July …

Books

Disney’s Lost Chords

Russell Schroeder has written and self-published an eye-opening (and ear-opening) book on the unused music for Disney films (both …

Books

Animation Book Look

Our friends at the Van Eaton Gallery are hosting an event that I want to invite you all to. On Thursday, April 19, 2007 from 6:00pm-10:00 …

Disney

Walt Disney Treasures live again!

It was announced late Friday and posted on several other websites since: the Walt Disney Treasures will go on. At least, for another …

TV

REVIEW: El Tigre (Nickelodeon)

My introduction to Jorge Gutierrez’s work was at the 1999 CalArts Producers’ Show. It was a screening of his CG short Carmelo. If I …

Illustration

Animators Up for Pulitzer Prize

The journalism trade magazine, Editor and Publisher is reporting that the three cartoonists reported to be Pulitzer Award finalists all …

Disney

Pinocchio Scene by Scene

There is an important Disney history triple-play going on at three of our favorite blogs. Michael Sporn got the ball rolling last year …

Disney

Golden Book Art at Disneyland

It’s rare for this website to promote a visit to Disneyland twice within the same week, but we’ve just recieved word from artist Kevin …

Advertising

Coo-Coo for Cocoa Puffs

A few weeks ago I posted about Chuck McCann and mentioned his memorable voice work as Sonny and Gramps in the original 1960s Cocoa Puffs …

Classic

Gumby World

It’s easy to knock Gumby… He’s been mocked by Saturday Night Live, trivialized in junk merchandise, and mostly ignored by the …

Disney

John Lasseter in the NY Times

Yesterday’s New York Times featured an interview with John Lasseter and some interesting bits can be gleaned from the article. One thing …

Classic

Fred Quimby Explains It All

Cartoonist David King has posted on his blog several interesting pages from a 1950 book, The Complete Guide to Professional Cartooning. …

Classic

ALICE in 35mm

A few years ago, Ray Pointer (aka Inkwell Images) put together a superb DVD collection of seven Alice Comedies, Disney’s 1920s silent-era …

CGI

Foodfight

Click here to see the large size version of this promotional image, above, from Foodfight. Can you spot the product placement? …

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