New Book Reviews
My occasional round-up of books I recently received, read and really enjoyed includes Mickey Mouse comics, The Marx Brothers in animation and cartoons from the 80s, 50s and 1920s.
My occasional round-up of books I recently received, read and really enjoyed includes Mickey Mouse comics, The Marx Brothers in animation and cartoons from the 80s, 50s and 1920s.
1959 may not have been a banner year for Looney Tunes, but a question emerges: Was “Beep Beep” the studio’s actual ‘character name’ for The Road Runner?
I’m afraid the Bugs Bunny Lari-Loop Larriette was no hula-hoop or coon-skin cap… but nice try!
That didn’t mean they couldn’t enlist the standard characters (Mickey, Donald, Pluto, Goofy, etc) to help promote the picture. In fact, I don’t think they could help it.
A final word from Eddie Selzer… Lou Scheimer, Owen Fitzgerald and Sam Armstrong join the studio as layout men… and the new Warner Bros. Commercial and Industrial Films Division opens.
The second half of 1957. The Warner Bros. Cartoon Department as seen through the eyes of the artists via the gossip column of the monthly in-house employee magazine.
Our weekly look at a slice of life at the Warner Bros. Cartoon studio – this week circa 1957 – where note is made of “exceptional” cartoons like What’s Opera Doc? and Three Little Bops.
Another round of posts from the Warner Bros. in-house studio newsletter, written by and distributed essentially to Warner employees on the Burbank lot.
Receiving the Oscar in March 1956, “Speedy Gonzales” won for best cartoon short of 1955 – and here are some clues on how it and why it was submitted.
The Looney Tunes staff moves into a new building on the lot – and Gerry Chiniquy was a child movie actor named Monte Clare?