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Gene Deitch, Cartoon Modernist Who Headed UPA New York And Terrytoons, Dies At 95

In the 1960s, he directed a series of infamous Tom & Jerry shorts while living in Eastern Europe.

Padrón created Cuba’s most enduring cartoon character, directed its first animated feature, and drew some of its most popular comics.

Arambula’s storied career took him from the animation studios of Mexico City to a 15-year run as the lead artist of the Mickey Mouse comic strip.

Dead at 92, the French comic icon is being called “the master,” “a genius,” and “a gateway drug to beautiful European comics.”

Mendoza’s wife and brother-in-law were also murdered.

In the 1950s, the director and screenwriter helped pioneer a bold new modernism in animation.

Bruce Smith talks about working with Bryant on studio plans before the former athlete’s untimely death.

Kirk Douglas is dead at 103.

Members of the animation community have joined countless others in responding to Bryant’s death. Here is what’s being said.

The past 12 months saw big names leave us by the droves, and witnessed one of the worst atrocities in animation history.

Williams, one of the world’s most acclaimed animators, has died aged 86. We look back over his wide-ranging career.

Director and animator Richard Williams died Friday evening at his home in Bristol, England. He was 86.

The dead include famed director Yasuhiro Takemoto and renowned animator Yoshiji Kigami.

She directed iconic animated shorts like “Asparagus” and “Joy Street.”

The Los Angeles animation industry is mourning the sudden death of Chris Reccardi.

A cult icon in the world of American independent animation, Bruce Bickford crafted beautiful and terrifying worlds of stop motion animation.

Last year, the artist premiered “Reruns,” the final short film in his Thee Wreckers tetralogy at the Clermont-Ferrand Int’l Short Film Festival.

Miller created profitable divisions of the company including Walt Disney Home Video, Touchstone Pictures, and The Disney Channel.

Don Lusk worked on the first animated feature made by Walt Disney, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”

The cause of the death was the neurodegenerative disease ALS.