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Dream On, Silly Dreamer
…in a harsh sea, fighting against the withering mentality that hand-drawn animation is now “obsolete.” Though there was great protest amongst the community of “cartoon nuts” that cared, these tragic… |
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Chatting with The Chestnut Tree Creators
…might be an influence on me is that I grew up in Korea and the art surrounding me was Asian art and also Korean and Japanese cartoons. Asian art is… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter One: Screenwriter Bill Kelly, the one that started it all!
…Music. The story didn’t feel believable (as far as our lead character breaking into song and outbreaks of optimism) until we made our heroine a cartoon maiden. The script took… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Five: Animation with James Baxter and Thomas Schelesny
…who better than the famed Tippett Studio to bring one such cartoon character to photorealistic life in our real world? Jeremie Noyer speaks with James Baxter, and Tippett’s visual effects… |
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Bruce Broughton: The Great Prince of Bambi II‘s Music
In a traditional cartoon, animation and music are so intricately intertwined that you can’t talk about one without talking about the other. One of the greatest specialists in animation and… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!
…his classes: motorcycles and cartoony looking iguanas! After high school in Florida, he majored in film at Emerson College in Boston and moved to Los Angeles to pursue animation. He… |
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The Incredible Mr Limpet
…to the crew involved. The interactions between the cartoon and live-action elements are kept to a minimum, although this does not hamper the flow of the film in any way… |
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Cats Don’t Dance
…a lot to be said for Cats Don’t Dance. The DVD supposedly adds the theatrical trailer and the 1947 Tom And Jerry cartoon The Cat Concerto (which won the Best… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Limited Issue
…while in captivity is the 1931 Silly Symphony Flowers And Trees – the first cartoon in Technicolor and here playing (in a wickedly ironic joke by the Disney team) in… |
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Walt: The Man Behind The Myth
…realized that these cartoons featured real stories and relatable characters, rather than the random gags cooked up by other cartoon producers Otto Messmer (with Felix The Cat) and the Fleischer… |
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Cinderella III: A Twist In Time
…cartoon caricatures in the 1950 film and therefore should have been the easiest to transfer here, and they are, though quite how Anastasia has developed a nice little singing voice… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…We all know Walt the animation innovator, as seen by way of cartoon compendiums featuring his merry menagerie of caricatured animals, from Oswald The Lucky Rabbit (concurrently released in this… |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Season 5 – Winner!
…The Aqua Teen Hunger Force debuted on episode 92 (Baffler Meal) of the cartoon talk-show Space Ghost Coast To Coast. According to TV Tome, Master Shake is portrayed as being… |
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
…so Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation comes at a fitting time and is a recommended read! Lastly – for now – look for our exclusive tour of the Disney… |
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Not so silly Symphonies; Song Of The South?; More Hanna-Barbera!
…Treasures wave, More Silly Symphonies, a collection of the remaining shorts that the Studio produced under this banner. There are some really neat cartoons in here – some I haven’t… |
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And the Oscar nominations are…
…Superman turning into a cartoon or a rubbery CGI effect in order to fly? There’s no Night At The Museum, and Poseidon is a surprising no-hoper, but I’ll be crossing… |
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“Cracking news, Gromit!” site updates…
…Rand has added the third and final part of his extensive look back at the world of Hanna-Barbera, with Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation Part 3, which I urge… |
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Oscar-winner interview, Abrams' Trek, Laurel & Hardy's animated themes, and more Dinosaurs!
…the original 1971 television scores created to accompany shortened, cartoon-length versions of the Boys’ silent two reelers. A 16 page booklet with informative notes sweetens the deal and, anyone who… |
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WB DVD: more Animaniacs, and The Phantom Tollbooth!
…know, it’s a highly anticipated title thanks to Joe Dante’s part-cartoon It’s A Good Life segment. One-time animator Tim Burton’s (whatever happened to him?) BeetleJuice is getting the special edition… |
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Lee a marvel at Mouse House?; Disney Songbook comes to London
…to fish out a final true classic instead of his last original spin-off series, the 2003 Spike TV cartoon series Stripperella, which featured the voice and, um, physique of Pamela… |
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Ben's shamelessly blatant Film Festival event plug…
…original cartoon characters of that variety in recent years. Look for our take on both this and its companion release Pinky And The Brain Volume 3 in the coming weeks,… |
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Giveaway crazy! Plus the old American Dog/Bolt switcheroo!
…on the net, the subplot to Disney’s 2003 direct-to-video outing 101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure, in which Patch meets Thunderbolt, the action-hero star of the Western cartoon glimpsed at… |
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WDFA becomes WDAS. Not the same, is it?
It seems Disney’s advertisement announcing a name change for their Feature Animation department at this year’s Annecy Festival, as reported by the Cartoon Brew page, is now doing the rounds… |
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The Critic: The Complete Series
…a very pleasing experience throughout, and if I remember correctly, one of the first cartoon productions produced in Dolby Surround for television. Those soundtracks have been preserved and presented here,… |
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Shrek makes it 600 million; plus Jolson sings again!
…year before Mickey tooted his way across the screen in Steamboat Willie in 1928), but the three-disc set will come packed with a collection of period cartoons, early sound era… |
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Crazy triple bill: Popeye, The Simpsons, and 300 Spartans!??!
Things couldn’t get any better today as the Popeye: 1933-1938 Collection finally comes to DVD and is in stores right now for you classic cartoon nuts to go and pick… |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume Two!
…cartoon material, with such gems as The New Adventures Of Superman, Tarzan: Lord Of The Apes and Flash Gordon among them. A foray into similarly produced (cheap!) live-action programming resulted… |
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Guess who!? Woody woodpecks his way on DVD!
…library, which I’ve been catching up on thanks to the absolutely splendid collection put out just a week or so ago. Seriously, this set presents the cartoons just as it… |
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DreamWorks goes HD-DVD!? Plus a More Symphonies fix!
…Well, while Paramount’s own cartoon catalog is otherwise fairly light on true gems, the distributor is home to DreamWorks Animation, throwing a spanner into the works for those who quite… |
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Kermit, Piggy, Woody, Oswald…and Jerry Beck too!
Yessiree folks! My take on that Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection is finally here, and what a set it is! I very much enjoyed being able to watch… |
