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Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Volume Three
…worn law text, but with naughtiness there once you look closer. Inside, the digipack is designed like a somewhat raunchy men’s magazine (though little worse than what’s already on the… |
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Superman – Doomsday
…magazine just didn’t ring true. And before you know it, in what feels like just a couple of days… Superman’s back already! Or maybe he isn’t, but it sure looks… |
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Astro Boy (1963): Ultra Collector’s Edition Sets 1 & 2
…Tezuka. Debuting in 1951, his actual name was Tetsuwan Atom, or “Mighty Atom”, and he was initially a supporting character in a Shonen boys’ magazine story called Atom Tashai (Ambassador… |
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Comic-Con 2006: Animated Coverage!
…the clips, along with more info on the Simpsons Movie panel, are at Simpson Crazy and Animation Magazine. Meanwhile, Steve Sansweet, Lucasfilm’s Head of Fan Relations, was at Comic-Con to… |
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Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…wanna do for a living!’ He just sort of blinked and said, ‘Oh, thank you! Thank you very much!’ I asked him to autograph my copy of Animation Magazine, with… |
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Mike Scully on The Simpsons Movie
…magazine article that Matt Groening read. I can tell you the story has an environmental theme to it, with Homer basically causing an environmental catastrophe far beyond anything he’s ever… |
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Deja and Henn on the return of The Goof!
…one; everyone’s talking about John Sibley again since Pete Docter wrote that article about him in Amid’s Animation Blast magazine. Sibley did so much of that Goofy animation way back… |
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Bolt: Mark Cotta Vaz on The Art of Bolt
…the authorized fiftieth anniversary history of the Batman comics character. I got involved in writing about movies when I answered an ad for writers in Cinefex, a magazine that explores… |
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Lorraine Feather & George Griffin on You’re Outa Here
…1945. This BeBop anthem was the basis for my other jazz film which was created with abstract bits of torn magazine pages. AV: How did you get that idea of… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…of the film itself) did open up my eyes to his unique point of view, and I could see a mild Mad Magazine influence in some of his stuff. In… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Black And White, Volume Two
…of story sketches from untitled shorts), Mickey’s Poster Archive (a selection of 17 images), and 38 stills featuring book and Mickey Mouse Magazine covers, records and sheet music, collected as… |
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The Complete Adventures Of The Little King
…became a master of the satirical caricature, landing work at The New Masses, a popular arts magazine. By the late ’20s, Soglow’s strips were being placed in The New Yorker,… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure Special Edition
…Disney DVDs again, it seems – instead going for a promotion for Disney And Me magazine and a Patch-themed advertisement for US Postal Service Disney stamps. The now standard “Blu-ray… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…diverse as Alice Cooper (a highlight) and monster aficionado Forrest J. Ackerman (of the infamous Famous Monsters Of Filmland magazine), as well as Goolies writer Mendelsohn and, of course, Scheimer,… |
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TMNT
…amazing animatronic puppet wizardry of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, though the second film, The Secret Of The Ooze was a tired re-tread. I think Mad Magazine’s spoof title The Secret… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…(Situation Normal All Fouled Up, though the F was usually replaced with something a little stronger!) character started out in an Army and Navy movie magazine reel sent out to… |
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Snow White: The Characters And Legacy Of The First And Fairest Of Them All!
…cover of Time Magazine with the headline Cinema: Mouse & Man (December 27 1937) and the article’s lead quote, “it is an authentic masterpiece”. • New York Times review (January… |
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Animated DVDs up for 2009 TV DVD Awards!
Home Media Magazine has opened up voting for their 2009 TV DVD Awards, honoring the best television series DVDs released this year. And animation is front and center in several… |
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More new holiday animation on TV
…on December 11th. Animation Magazine reports that the story is about eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon who “had always loved Christmas until the playground bully, Charlotte, tells her and the other children… |
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Jobs named CEO of the Decade
Fortune Magazine has named Steve Jobs the CEO of the Decade. The Apple (and former Pixar) CEO is lauded for his part in redefining four distinct industries — personal computers,… |
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Stan Berkowitz recieves WGA animation award
…freelanced as an entertainment journalist for Esquire, People, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, New York Daily News and other publications, as well as working as a film preservationist. An… |
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Disney profits up; consumer DVD spending down
…is despite a couple of theatrical misfires, including the Jerry Bruckheimer produced G-Force, and lower than usual consumer spending on DVDs, according to Video Business Magazine. President and CEO Robert… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 2
…the colonel finds himself asking them to be mascots instead when a magazine article is being prepared. Then, Yippee, Yappee, and Yahooey take on Black Bart, who tries to kidnap… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…extensive DVD-ROM production paperwork archive presented as a collection of over 80 PDF files. Ranging from reproductions of each script, documentation, press releases, call sheets, magazine publicity and even some… |
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Cloudy cover art, details, and Meatballs
An advertisement in trade magazine Video Business includes the cover art and specific details for Sony’s upcoming release of their $120m box-office hit Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, landing… |
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More Awards for Up!
…was given to Wes Anderson for The Fantastic Mr. Fox. More on the NBR awards, including a full list of all winners, can be found on Variety magazine’s web site…. |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete First Season
…Chaplin and director DW Griffith) just one year after publication, and the exciting feature The Mark Of Zorro proved such a hit that the magazine republished Capistrano with the same… |
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Princess And The Frog soundtrack streamed
…and also to really introducing the characters and learning about the characters; what they’re about, what they want, what’s inside them.” (Image Courtesy of USA Weekend Magazine) The lady who… |
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TV DVD Award Winners
The winners of the 2009 TV DVD Awards have been announced, per this article from Home Media Magazine (original article here). The Simpsons: The Complete Twelfth Season won for Best… |
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War Of The Animated Worlds
…the “steampunk” style that meshes Japanese anime with a Western visual approach, the film has been executive produced by Heavy Metal magazine publisher Kevin Eastman and is set in 1914,… |
