This Weekend in Brooklyn and Toronto
I’m off this week to a visit back east. I’ll be in both New York and Toronto over the next few days – doing what I like to do best,…
Yasuji Mori’s “Hustle Punch” (1965)
“Funny animals” are a staple in American animation, ranging from Bugs Bunny to Ren & Stimpy, but it is incredibly rare to see one in Japanese cartooons. Generally if an…
Comic Con Finds
Just got back from the San Diego Comic Con, and thought I share a few of things I came across that I liked. If you can put up with my…
The Ursa Major Awards
Probably most of you know that I am one of the founders and the longstanding Secretary of the Anthropomorphic Literature and Arts Association (ALAA), which administers the annual Ursa Major…
Fleischer’s Animated News #7
Another edition of Fleischer’s Animated News, the Paramount cartoon studio in-house newsletter from 1935 (click thumbnails below to enlarge). This time, a new editor and an issue highlighting a wedding…
Animation Anecdotes #119
Where’s Porky Pig? The National Stuttering Project complained when Disney’s animated feature The Fox and the Hound was first released on videotape in March 1994. According to the NSP, the…
“Mendelssohn’s Spring Song” (1931)
Mendelssohn’s Spring Song on a hot summer day! Here is a brief introduction to a short that really deserves a longer one. I first saw this film in a black…
Comic Con 2013
I’m traveling down to Comic Con today for another five days of insanity. I’ll be there the entire time, mainly walking around the “dealers room” (exhibit hall), or hanging out…
Two Offbeat Mini-Anime from Tatsunoko
Today, I call your attention to an unusual pair of Tatsunoko mini-anime series: Kaba Totto (1971) and Kaiketsu Tamagon (1972). Things couldn’t be better for Tatsunoko Productions in the 1970s….
“The Three Caballeros” (In Featurette Form)
Walt Disney’s The Three Caballeros (1945) is one of my favorite Disney features – mainly because it’s the least “Disney” animated feature Disney ever made. It’s an “anti-Disney” Disney film,…
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