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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 2

…comic book artist Doug Wildey) involved in stories that included real danger. Jonny came out a year after the Astro Boy import series from Japan, and helped to pave the…

A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse

On December 25, Charlie Mackesy’s bestselling book The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse comes to life in a beautifully animated short in full color, with exquisite hand-drawn…

Apple’s The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse wins BAFTA Film Award for Best British Short Animation

…Mackesy’s book, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. The poignant and heartfelt journey follows the unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse…

The Astonishing Work Of Tezuka Osamu

…of his popular Tetsuan Atom (known in the English speaking world as Astro Boy) and Jungle Emperor (Kimba) manga, to great international success. Unfortunately, the animation studio made a few…

Apple lands animated short film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

…journey follows the unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse travelling together in the boy’s search for home. “The journey of making the film of…

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

…actually brings mutant aliens to Earth, Jimmy’s classmates must put all their faith in the boy genius. In what might seem like the perfect scenario, the aliens have kidnapped all…

The Animated Games of E3

…help him in this fight. Astro Boy – SEGA – PS2 Based on the famous boy robot and created by Osamu Tezuka, this game is a third-person action title. The…

2009 Annie Nominees announced

…a Feature Production • Sharon Bridgeman Astro Boy — Imagi Studios • Chris Butler Coraline — Laika • Ronnie Del Carmen Up — Pixar Animation Studios • Tom Owens Monsters…

Up wins Best Feature Annie Award

…a Feature Production • Sharon Bridgeman Astro Boy — Imagi Studios • Chris Butler Coraline — Laika • Ronnie Del Carmen Up — Pixar Animation Studios • Tom Owens Monsters…

Teen Titans: Trouble In Tokyo

…who looks not unlike Astro Boy. A few battles later, the Titans finally must unravel the mystery behind Brushogun. The answer has two parts: one totally predictable (even just from…

Freakazoid!: Season 2

…much, much better is Hero Boy, an absolutely packed show that finds room for the return of Ricardo Montalban, spoofs of dubbed editions of Japanese staples Godzilla and Astro Boy,…

Teen Titans: The Complete First Season

…DC’s major heroes, with an initially unnamed group of three boys soon being joined by a female member. The original roster starred Batman’s partner Robin the Boy Wonder, Aquaman’s little…

Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida

…horse longing for the attention of his videogame-obsessed boy. The twist was that the boy would be the only traditionally-animated character in an otherwise computer animated world. Cook assumed Off…

Peanuts Double Feature: A Boy Named Charlie Brown & Snoopy, Come Home

…Peanuts films— featuring the exact same discs they already released. Yay. A Boy Named Charlie Brown The first of the Charlie Brown movies was A Boy Named Charlie Brown, premiering…

Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season

…plotline that would encompass most of the season-long arc. The episode’s prologue flashes back to the days when Beast Boy was still a part of the Doom Patrol, a situation…

Director Kevin Munroe revisits Imagi’s TMNT franchise

…Things Are. Those plans were scrapped when, a mere six months later, Nickelodeon acquired the global rights to the Turtles brand for $60 million. Imagi’s Astro Boy entered theaters in…

We’re off to see the Wizard!

…duo’s follow-up, the hysterical Team America: World Police is coming soon. Lastly today, and accompanying his recent look at the Astro Boy And Anime Come To The Americas book, Randall…

Metropolis

…animation in Japan was brought to a new level of popularity or technical accomplishment. Anime’s oldest and perhaps most beloved character is known in North America as Astro Boy, and…

The Boy and the Heron trailer is gorgeous

The trailer for the English language version of The Boy and the Heron is now online, and you can check it out in the player above. As one would expect…

Peter Pan: Diamond Edition

…leads Wendy and the boys past “the second star to the right and straight on ’till morning”. However, unbeknown to him, the infamous Captain Hook awaits, crazed from the last…

Peter Pan: Platinum Edition

…awaits the return of his opponent for another showdown. While Peter leaves John and Michael with his band of Lost Boys, Tinker Bell has taken a dislike to Wendy and…

Watch the stunning teaser for The Boy and the Heron

The first US trailer for The Boy and the Heron has finally been revealed online, and you can check it out in the player above. The movie has also officially…

A Boy Named Charlie Brown

…the greatest exposure on television. The first of the Charlie Brown movies, however, was A Boy Named Charlie Brown, which came out just a few months before my birth, premiering…

Teen Titans: The Complete Second Season

…future. What she finds there is a great disappointment to her, but thrilling in some ways for fans that were wondering just which Robin is on the team. (Fanboy moment:…

A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Documentary)

…about fifty years). When he takes a break from drawing, he answers fan letters from children with his secretary. In one humorous answer to a letter, after a boy had…

Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters opens

The Orange County Register online has the lowdown on the new Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters attraction which opens today at Disneyland, “but the groundbreaking component begins June 6, when anyone…

The Jetsons: Season Two, Volume One

…to see the future. Finally, in The Wrong Stuff, Elroy and Astro get more than they bargained for when they are trapped inside a space shuttle. The technology in The…

Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!

…takes Buzz Lightyear’s Astro Blasters to it’s logical next step. Naturally, an astro blaster had to be mine, and despite Jenny questioning the real practical need for an astro blaster…

It's not just "synthespians" – now computers can do voice overs too!

{{link http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/01/15/robot.actor.ap/index.html CNN Online}} reports that Astro Boy got the help of a real life little boy robot recently, when Sony’s humanoid Qrio entered a voice booth to record lines…

AV Readers’ Best of the Decade List: 2001-2010

…45 70 disney’s a christmas carol 40 71 waking life 33 72 monsters vs. aliens 32 73 shrek forever after 31 74 astro boy 29 75 idiots and angels 27…