The B’rer Rabbit Comic Strip
Several noted animators and storymen found work, sometimes moonlighting, doing comic books and comic strips based on Disney’s Song of the South.
Reign of the Supertoons (Part 5)
Amidst an atmosphere of TV animation rejuvenation in the late 1980s, the superhero satire began to re-emerge.
Animation-ette! (Part Two)
More about the animated side of Annette Funicello’s musical legacy, including the stop-motion titles in the original Parent Trap and what her success helped make possible.
More Animation Books For Your Social Isolation
Still stuck inside? Already binge-watched everything on Disney+, HBOmax and Netflix – twice? Never fear! Here’s another batch of books that just came out that I think you should read.
Disney’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (1949)
Singer Bing Crosby would lighten up some of the frightening aspects of Ichabod’s story especially with unscripted ad-libs like nicknaming the lead character “old Icky”.
Halloween is Better with Casper: “The Friendly Ghost” (1945)
It’s nearly Halloween, and I’d be careless if we didn’t show at least *one* sort of Halloween cartoon. Here is one of my favorites.
Reign of the Supertoons (Part 4)
Everyone wanted to be their superhero idol back in the 1960s – and this craze spilled over drastically into animated cartoons of the day.
Snafu Special: For the Boys
Leon Schlesinger’s studio contribution to the war-effort, contained in the monthly “Army-Navy Screen Magazine”, was Private Snafu -the quintessential Army screw-up.
The Haunted Duck
The Donald Duck cartoon “Trick or Treat” (1952) was designed specifically as a Halloween attraction, and in succeeding years it has become a cult favorite among cartoon fans.
Jerry Beck is a writer, animation producer, college professor and author of more than 15 books on animation history. He is a former studio exec with Nickelodeon Movies and Disney, and has written for The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. He has curated cartoons for DVD and Blu-ray compilations and has lent his expertise to dozens of bonus documentaries and audio commentaries on such. Beck is currently on the faculty of CalArts in Valencia, UCLA in Westwood and Woodbury University in Burbank – teaching animation history. More about Jerry Beck [Click Here]
