We, Robots! (Part 3) – Unfinished Business
It’s time to return to the subject of cartoons featuring robots, and the advances of mechanization into the war years.
It’s time to return to the subject of cartoons featuring robots, and the advances of mechanization into the war years.
The earliest cartoon robot man appears in the Van Buren Aesop’s Fable talkie The Iron Man. Here’s a survey of all robot men in the 1930s.
A favorite turf for early animators was to fill a farm with scads of funny animals. So why not adapt it to include funny animal robots too?
I have recently listed four French Lucky Luke animated Western theatrical features. This does not include the Lucky Luke animated TV series (which will be here next week). This has…
Those waiting for my column on Anime Fandom in North America, part 3, can take this as half of it; the half on “real robots”. The other half, on teenagers…
Don’t think that all of the giant robot TV cartoons were created by Go Nagai. He may have invented them, but others quickly jumped onto the, er, giant robots. The…
Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising were about to leave – and taking the studio’s most popular character with them. Here is Warner’s last batch of Boskos.
More circus memorabilia from the 1960’s, with an emphasis on anime, Joe Oriolo and Hal Seeger.
It seems there were multiple attempts – so let’s take a look at what might have been, as well as what actually was.
Kirby’s time at Ruby-Spears provided him financial and medical security and allowed him to explore endless concepts including humor.