Winter Book Round-up
Several new books I think you should know about… for reading over the winter holidays.
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Sanrio and Me
Sanrio Co., Ltd. was founded in Japan in August 1960 as the Yamanashi Silk Company, by Shintaro Tsuji, to design, manufacture, and sell “cute” wearing apparel. In April 1973 the…
Olympic Mascots Animation – Part 1
My topic this week: The mascots of the Summer Olympic Games, and any animation associated with them. I cannot find that anyone else has written about this, so I might…
Lost In Translation
When the Japanese animated TV series Samurai Champloo (26 episodes, May 20, 2004 to March 19, 2005) first appeared, most anime fans, both in America and in Japan, said, “That’s…
Animals That Should Be Animated
I said in my first column that the earliest animated cartoon that I can remember seeing was Disney’s Pinocchio, on its first rerelease in October 1945, just before my fifth…
Outrageous Anime
I would like to thank Dwight Decker for giving me the idea for this column, though maybe not exactly in the way that he expected. Dwight said in his comment…
Debunking The Myths: Crusader Rabbit and Walt Disney
How much of what everyone “knows” about animation history is wrong? For example … The first TV cartoon was Crusader Rabbit, in 1949. And Crusader always fought the villainous Dudley…
The 14th Annual Show of Shows: A Review
Author’s Note: This week’s column is a bit of a surprise to us all. I wrote this review last October. Its publication has been on hold for the last six…
Animation That (Almost) Nobody Ever Heard Of
On February 28th, “Crossaffliction” (aka Brendan Kachel) proposed humorously on the Flayrah website that Furry fans create their own version of Mystery Science Theater 3000 to review really bad animated…
Rats In Animation
Are rats “nicer” than mice? In animation, it depends entirely upon the plot. Both mice and rats have to be anthropomorphized so much that any real difference does not matter….
