We, Robots! (Part 16) : Clanking Cat-astrophes and Tooney Terrors
Focus this week is on two studios who more or less got in on the ground floor of the 80’s-90’s animation resurgence.
Tag Archives: Garfield
Fitness v. Fatness (Part 11): Fat Cats and Obese Others
In today’s survey of fitness and weight-watching cartoons, all but two of the participants are felines!
Fitness vs. Fatness (Part 10): Low-Cal and Low-Brow
The animated cartoon, in its never-ending quest for thinner pencil lines, goes marching on.
Courtroom Drama: There’s Something Fishy About Those Scales (Part 7)
The object of the game is not to establish a new rule of law or lasting precedent – it is merely to be the last toon standing.
Reign of the Supertoons (Part 11)
The old Green Lantern battery is running on low, so it’s time to wind down this review of non-career cartoon superheroes and their various exploits and follies.
Hearts and Flowers – Part 5
A new movement among America’s youth briefly gave some theatrical animators a chance to express modern commentary, by spotlighting the signature personality of the 60’s – the flower child.
Jim Korkis’ Christmas Anecdotes 2018
Once again during this holiday season, I devote an entire Animation Anecdotes column to some animated Christmas tales.
Garfield’s TV Specials on Disney Records
When Disney’s Buena Vista Records produced the first three Garfield animated specials as read-along album sets, a unique approach was used for the adaptations.
“The Fantastic Funnies” (1980)
In 1980, CBS aired a one-hour special called “The Fantastic Funnies”, produced by Lee Mendelson in association with the National Cartoonists Society. Over a dozen cartoonists were interviewed, talking about their work.
Animation Anecdotes #198
Garfield’s Judgement Day. Even at the height of Garfield the cat’s popularity in the late 1980s, creator Jim Davis couldn’t interest animation studios in his feature length animated script, “Garfield’s…
