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.
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.
In today’s survey of fitness and weight-watching cartoons, all but two of the participants are felines!
The animated cartoon, in its never-ending quest for thinner pencil lines, goes marching on.
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.
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.
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.
Once again during this holiday season, I devote an entire Animation Anecdotes column to some animated Christmas tales.
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.
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.
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…