Aw, Whadda You Afraid Of?? (Part 1)
We are fast approaching Friday the 13th and the various forms of superstition that have provided jinxes and hoodoos to many an animated star over the years.
We are fast approaching Friday the 13th and the various forms of superstition that have provided jinxes and hoodoos to many an animated star over the 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.
The Plight of the Bumblebee was a nearly completed Mickey Mouse cartoon from 1951. Director Jack Kinney called it “The best Mickey never finished.”
Wicke only voiced the villainous Bluto for a few years, from approximately 1935 to 1938, but to highly memorable effect, especially in Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad.
No, this article’s not all about Dreamworks or Pixar. It’s summer – so I figured we need something appropriate for the season. Summer means picnics. And picnics inevitably mean – ants!
This week (with apologies), a potpourri of “stuff we missed” due to an inadvertent reversal in order of intended segments of this article last week.
Returning once again to the ethereal realm of devils and angels, we pick up where we left off last week, to see how the forces of good and evil coped with the outbreak of Axis hostilities overseas.
An attempt to chronicle animation’s departures to a higher (or often lower) plane, exploring themes of reward or retribution to the animated mind.
Dusting off a survey of classic cartoons featuring vacuum cleaners – yep, that’s the theme of this latest animation trail.
Something was a edited out of this 1947 Popeye cartoon. Do you have a theory on what might have been contained in the cut footage?