Given their history, it is also almost inconceivable that Frank and Ollie could be written about other than as a team. They are also among the few animators who have gained a measure of public recognition.
Riki-Oh, adapted from the manga by Masahiko Takajo and Tetsuya Saruwatari, is a super-violent martial-arts thriller about an unjustly-imprisoned young martial-arts master
A cartoon that time forgot and a sequence that was never made, featuring a Buck Rogers rocket ride and an airborne finale way up in the clouds.
Hanna-Barbera head honcho Joe Barbera was not thrilled at the idea of hiring the still living Bud Abbott to provide the voice for his animated doppleganger.
After working with 1920s and 30s materials for many weeks, sometimes it’s nice to take a little diversion and look at something else, so that’s exactly what is being presented today.
Today’s breakdown features a comic chase between Woody Woodpecker and Wally Walrus!
This TV cartoon – once as popular as it is now relatively obscure – is celebrated today in its vinyl record form with the full cast, consisting of one talented actor.
Claude Coats was not a director, an animator or concept artist, but rather a background artist and color stylist of some repute, who spent the last part of his career as a Disney Imagineer.
BAOH was a pretty but forgettable entry in the “evil-organization-kidnaps-hero-and-forces-superpower-on-him-which-he-turns-against-them” stereotype.
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]
