My All-Time Top Ten Favorite Cartoons – Part 1
Over the years, many people have asked me ‘What is your favorite cartoon?’ Here I attempt an answer.
Over the years, many people have asked me ‘What is your favorite cartoon?’ Here I attempt an answer.
The second part of an interview with the daughter of Bob Clampett.
I spoke to Ruth about what it was like growing up with one of the greatest directors in animation history.
In 1936, Bob Clampett met author Edgar Rice Burroughs and tried to convince him he could sell a series of cartoons based on his John Carter of Mars stories.
“You know, I often ask myself if I were in a burning house and I could carry out either the original negative to Bambi or the Mona Lisa, what would it be?”
This Bob Clampett “Merrie Melodies” cartoon from Warner Brothers is a one-film time capsule of the peak of American cartooning.
The good news—finally, an animator breakdown on a Bob Clampett cartoon! The bad news, however, is that only the first page of the animator draft is available.
Want to know where more of these pet phrases from cartoons originated? This post reveals their origins, from various popular radio programs of the Golden Age.
Disney characters and films are so iconic – and represent all that is good and clean – that they are a tempting target for parody. Here are a few classic examples.
Bob Clampett was responsible for a still-controversial cartoon short, a scathing parody of Disney’s Snow White – with black caricatures.