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Help! …It’s The Hair Bear Bunch!: The Complete Series

…things considered. This would potentially make a nice little purchase for curious Saturday Morning TV fans looking to fill out a purchase during a sale. Animated Classic or Back To…

Batman: Bad Blood

…the days of Saturday morning cartoons. Other contributors include DC executive Mike Carlin, and Man Of Steel stunt coordinator Damon Caro. Expanding The Batman Family (13:46) is a nifty look…

Mickey And The Roadster Racers

…until it eventually abandoned the format entirely. More impoartant was the quality of the show, which had almost shockingly great animation and lively, Saturday morning-style adventures. Jake was sadly cancelled…

The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still

…unique amidst an onslaught of other releases from the comic book genre (even if Harley’s iconic cosplay-friendly Suicide Squad outfit is kind of missed here). Essentially a live-action Saturday morning

The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…

…positive side for home video, Warner Archive put out a few Saturday morning shows on sparkling Blu-rays, including fan favorites The Herculoids and Thundarr The Barbarian, plus a welcomed third…

The Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!

…must have been smiling throughout the whole film, feeling like a kid watching Garfield And Friends on a Saturday morning once again. On the small screen, Bluey [right] once again…

Boomerang welcomes Batman, Superman with marathons

From August 20 – 21, the 90’s animated series of Batman and Superman will each be featured in five-hour marathons on Boomerang, Cartoon Network’s sister channel for classic animation. Afterward,…

Pencils to Pixels to Prominence

…2006 – @ 2:00 pm – The Arclight Cinemas, Hollywood OVERVIEW This IFFLA Special Event is designed as a rare North American mini-seminar on the past, present, and future of…

Recommended books; Potter beats Bond; plus that Tron sequel!

…goes missing compared to a previous DVD release, this collection swaps it for two other films and has much better picture and audio quality. Halas & Batchelor Cartoons: An Animated…

Blow me down! Popeye Volume 2 reviewed, plus Shrek The Halls details!

Volume 2 1938-1940, the second collection of bona-fide classic black and white Max and Dave Fleischer animated cartoons. These Popeyes are the real deal, as you all know, and it’s…

A Conversation with Eric Goldberg

…opening a show on Broadway now, except it costs $150, $200 million dollars. It’s because the studios financially gain the most from the opening weekend, and then they gain less…

Boomerang readies Captain Planet unseen episodes

…with U.S. television premiere of 13 “lost episodes” of groundbreaking Captain Planet and the Planeteers Two four-hour marathons of the never-before-seen 6th season to air 7:30-11:30 a.m., 3:30-7:30 p.m. on…

Nickelodeon keeps focus on animation

…Swears by Cartoons,” which explains the importance of cartoons for the network. As Cyma Zarghami, the president of Nickelodeon, explains, “Animation really is the heart and soul of our business.”…

The Jetsons: The Complete First Season

…the year 2000. So, here were are in 2004, and still no flying cars, except those we find in cartoons and other movies. However, many of the other inventions only…

A Conversation with Eric Goldberg

…my films, so I had a lot of anti-Nixon, anti-Ford cartoons in there and then the response was, “Well, you oughtta get out of animation entirely and do political cartoons.”…

Pretty as a picture: Chuck Jones retrospective

…Tempe-based Architekton and award-winning Barton Myers Associates of Los Angeles and houses a state-of-the-art, 600-seat proscenium theater, a 200-seat studio theater and a 3,500 square-foot gallery. About CJCC: The Chuck…

Composer Mark Watters on Disney’s Silly Symphonies music

On Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 7pm, the historic Orpheum Theatre movie palace in downtown Los Angeles will host the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO), who will be showcasing the…

Much, much, MUCH more Duck Dodgers on the way!

…Alaskey) at another event this coming Wednesday, November 12. {{link http://www.arclightcinemas.com/do/detail?venueCode=Arclight&showCode=00572&dateText=11/12/2003&forward=/Detail1846.jsp&path=cs Wascally Wabbits And Mad Mallards: The Cartoons Of Chuck Jones}} is a screening of 14 classic cartoons at the…

Popeye: The 75th Anniversary Collection review

…money. While the better cartoons in this series of 220 episodes are also included (County Fair and Gem Jam among others), the quality of the cartoons is uneven at best.”…

Nicktoons Channel calls for entries for first-ever Nicktoons Film Festival

…compilation series launching this fall. One winner chosen by a grand jury will be awarded $10,000”. Nicktoons Partners with Animation Magazine and Frederator Studios for First-Ever Nicktoons Film Festival New…

Nextoons: The NickToons Film Festival Announces Festival Judges

…The judges will review the selected films and subsequently award a $10,000 Grand Prize. “In looking for judges for this year’s film festival, we wanted to include individuals with diverse…

John Kricfalusi vs. Warner Bros. on You Tube

…illustrations for numerous essays regarding his favorite cartoons. However, Warner Bros. insists that by doing such, copyright infringement was involved. Nonetheless, Kricfalusi believes that many of the cartoons he posted…

Scooby-Doo designer Iwao Takamoto dead at 81

…the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty and 101 Dalmatians. In mid-August of 1961, Takamoto moved to Hanna-Barbera Studios, where he helped reinvent cartoons for television. Virtually all the characters and cartoons released…

The Reluctant Dragon: Disney Exclusive Edition

…promoting the making of animated cartoons. The guys creating the thunder for Dumbo, Casey Junior’s sound-effect whistle, the explanation of the Multiplane Camera – these are just some of the…

Winnie the Pooh: Frankenpooh/Spookable Pooh

Walt Disney (September 10, 1988 – October 7, 1991), Walt Disney Home Video (August 27, 2002), 1 disc, 70 minutes plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0…

The Flintstones: The Complete Series

Hanna-Barbera Productions (September 30 1960 – April 1 1966), Warner Home Video (October 28 2008), 24 discs in custom packaging, 4258 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby…

Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company Animator Dave Pruiksma!

Jeremie Noyer speaks to Disney animator Dave Pruiksma about the Studio in the 1980s, the development of Oliver & Company and his many achievements since!…

DC Comics animation goodness, plus director Michel Ocelot!

…very first animated DC Comics Superman cartoons. Commonly known as the Fleischer series, the animated Technicolor short films will be released on DVD as a 2-disc collection featuring all 17…

Director George Scribner: Happy as a King with Prince and the Pauper!

…realm of cartoon animation. Would he have liked that? Nobody can tell, yet it can but be acknowledged that Disney’s 1990 featurette stands among the most successful cartoons ever. Not…

Pete Docter’s Up-bringing!

…career in hand-drawn animation for Disney Feature Animation, Bob Rogers and Company, Bajus-Jones Film Corp, and Reelworks in Minneapolis. Upon arrival at Pixar in May 1990, Pete created and directed…