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Fresh Hare

Is this the fate of Bugs Bunny? Suicide Food is a blog that tracks food marketing that depicts animals (usually cartoon animals) who …

Books

The Art of Pixar’s Short Films

A while back I mentioned briefly on this site that I had been offered an opportunity to write a book for Pixar, and today I thought I’d …

Events

Academy Exhibit of Classic Animation

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences new lobby exhibition, Ink & Paint, opens to the public on Friday May 16th. It highlights …

Cartoon Culture

Popeyes in Puerto Rico

I can’t stand Popeyes Chicken, but if the restaurants looked like this one in Puerto Rico I might give them another try. This one, …

Events

Plympton, Paley and CGI at Tribeca

The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival kicks off this week and there are three animated features in competition. Each of them plays multiple …

Cartoon Culture

Coloring Books

Aaron Higgins of Toonarific has started a new website devoted to cataloging classic coloring books. As an art resource, it’s invaluable …

Books

New Book: Working for Disney

On his blog, Didier Ghez points out an interesting-sounding book that was self-published a few days ago: Working for Disney: 1936-1937, …

CGI

The Pixar Story on TV tonight!

The television broadcast premiere of Leslie Iwerks documentary, The Pixar Story, will be on the STARZ cable channel tonight at 10pm …

Disney

Popular Science on Fantasia Sound

Charles Shopsin has posted a January 1941 article from Popular Science about Disney’s pioneering sound processes for Fantasia on his …

Events

Drawing On the Future

The 12th Marc Davis Celebration of Animation Drawing on the Future: Mentorship In Animation will feature (above L to R) Pete Docter …

Music Videos

D.A.N.C.E.

Thanks to several of our readers, I’ve just caught up with this music video from French music group, Justice. It’s directed by Jonas and …

Animators

Rare Terrytoon photos

That’s Gene Deitch (left) examining cels of Bert and Harry Piels (of the famed Piels Beer commercials) with director Connie Rasinski in …

CGI

Clone Wars trailer

This trailer has been out for almost a year, but in case you missed it (or the newer, more action packed one leaked on Gizmodo) I thought …

Events

Cartoon Dump: Tuesday in Los Angeles

If you haven’t been to live performance of Cartoon Dump, my monthly live comedy show in Hollywood, this month’s program is a perfect one …

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