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Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…I remember watching Saturday morning cartoons and getting all excited when those animated specials would come on CBS with that cool 1970s computer graphics logo spinning out: ‘CBS Special Presentation!’… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…we look back on the past year, join us for… 1. Popeye The Sailor: Volume One (1933-1938) Warner Home Video (July 31 2007), 4 discs, 540 mins plus supplements, $65… |
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Hero High: The Complete Series
…in fact much truer to the 1940s originals than anything DC Comics has published since then. I was always an easy mark for superhero cartoons, particularly any cartoons based upon… |
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Chuck Jones: Extremes And Inbetweens, A Life In Animation
Warner Bros. Television (November 21 2000), Warner Home Video (October 22 2002), single disc, 85 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 letterboxed widescreen, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Not Rated, Retail: $14.98 Storyboard:… |
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Beetle Bailey/Hagar The Horrible/Betty Boop
…of all we have Beetle Bailey, Mort Walker’s famous army everyman. Beetle first appeared in twelve newspapers in 1950, although he was seen throughout many cartoons that Walker did for… |
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ReFrederator presents classic cartoons
…networks, including its number one show The Fairly Oddparents. Prior to forming Frederator Studios, Seibert served as president of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, where he led the return of cartoons to the… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition
…mins), the debut 1929 Symphony, The Skeleton Dance (6:02m), a dedicated and brilliant Gustaf Tenggren gallery (among others), Creating The World featurette (6:53), and the Music Land short (10:15) round… |
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The Smurfs, Vol. 1: True Blue Friends
…“Gormandizing Greedy” (2:20). Finally, trailers are also included in the set for Peanuts: Deluxe Holiday Collection, Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird, Scooby-Doo, Where Are you? Vol. 1, Tom and… |
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The Jetsons: Season Two, Volume One
…two opens with a trailer for Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume One and 1970s Volume One. Finally, disc three opens with a trailer for Batman: The Brave and the Bold…. |
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Tom and Jerry Tales: Volume Six
…Season 1, Tom and Jerry Tales: Vol. 5, and Pop Go the Wiggles. Case Study: As with previous releases, this volume is being released in a regular single disc, black… |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire – 2 Movie Collection
…20,000 Leagues Under The Sea and Swiss Family Robinson styled adventure never truly before attempted in animation on a major scale. In many ways, and despite the resulting Atlantis not… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete First Season
…Changeling reverting to his original “Beast Boy” name). On the surface, this would seem to be an adaptation of The New Teen Titans comic from the 1980s, especially given that… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
Filmation Associates (September 12 1970), BCI Eclipse (October 24 2006), 3 disc set, 352 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Not Rated, Retail: $29.98… |
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Space Sentinels & The Freedom Force: The Complete Series
…of Tarzan and the Super 7 sealed the deal. Space Sentinels was created by the Filmation team in 1977 for NBC’s Saturday morning lineup. The series was initially pitched, and… |
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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…make things extremely stressful. This was very apparent for Saturday morning as there was no question folks would be willing to fight one another to get into the Marvel/Lucasfilm presentation… |
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Additions old and new; reviews and a new Media section!
…From the brand-spanking new to the sheer nostalgic now, as Randall drops in with his takes on a pair of Saturday Morning Cartoons compilations: 1960s Volume 2, and 1970s Volume… |
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The Sylvester And Tweety Mysteries: The Complete First Season
…ratings and reviews over at Fox since 1993. Its spin-off Pinky And The Brain debuted on that initial Kids WB morning, as did the very fun cartoons Freakazoid and Earthworm… |
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Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles: The Complete Series
…news is that is has been recycled from the Saturday Morning Cartoons: The 1960s Collection Volume One. The other good news is that it is a pretty nice featurette, after… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 2
…any special features, a preview for The Zeta Project is the only extra material on the first disc, while trailers for Batman: The Brave And The Bold and Saturday Morning… |
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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…Cartoons, 1920, another book that was an early animation Bible Some of the titles of the books will be mythical volumes long since known and perhaps even peeked at by… |
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King Con! News from San Diego…
…Funhouse, featuring clips as well as notable “lost” cartoons, banned from the airwaves forever. -Worst Cartoons Ever: Jerry Beck presents an all-new, all-hilariously bad collection of the worst animated cartoons… |
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Kids' WB! fall season to debut three new cartoons
…Salad Island debuts Saturday, September 17th at 10:30am ET. Johnny Test is the story of an 11 year old boy who has a zest for life and an ambition just… |
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Cartoons for Victory and Cultoons due for DVD deliverance
DVD toons has a look at two upcoming DVD releases that offer toons both unique and undiscovered to many people. The more controversial of the duo, Cartoons for Victory, contains… |
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Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies
Warner Bros. (1977), Warner Home Video (February 16 2010), single disc, 50 mins, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $14.98 Storyboard: With the Easter Bunny… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…Disney feature animation. I’m not a big fan of Mickey Mouse cartoons or Donald Duck cartoons. I’m not a fan of Disney (shorts). It’s just certain cartoons, Sorcerer’s Apprentice, maybe… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…a sweet princess preyed upon by a wicked stepmother and rescued by seven odd little men, pulled cartoons out of the supporting program and changed the future of filmmaking. Now… |
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First look at 1980s and Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles teaming up
…1980s series’ original voice actors Cam Clarke (Leonardo), Barry Gordon (Donatello), and Townsend Coleman (Michelangelo) alongside Rob Paulsen (who voiced Raphael in the 1980s series and Donatello in the current… |
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Didier Ghez uncovers the hidden art of Disney’s early renaissance
…JN: How is Volume 6 coming along at the moment? DG: The final volume in the series, They Drew As They Pleased – Volume 6 (The 1990s to the 2010s),… |
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UPN and The WB to cease operations, CBS and Warner Brothers to create new network
…from 7:00 a.m.-Noon, considered primetime for kids. Kids’ WB! has been the broadcast network ratings champion since Fall 2000, capturing 16 consecutive sweep victories as the Number One Saturday morning… |
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The Archie Show: The Complete Series
…a ratings leader that immediately put the studio on the Saturday morning map. They would find even greater success, though, in 1968 with a much different comic book adaptation. The… |