Tonight: Kim Deitch at MoCCA
New Yorkers are in for a real treat tonight as Kim Deitch does a special showing of toons from his vault:
Kim Deitch will host...
The New Yorker’s annual Cartoon issue
We were surprised no one had mentioned that this week's New Yorker is the annual Cartoon issue, but Chris Mautner has a nice rundown...
Graham Annable’s Halloween cartoon
http://www.youtube.com/v/-0j3rlmqyWg&hl=en&fs=1
Via Boneville.
Charles Burns and FEAR(S) OF THE DARK
FEAR(S) OF THE DARK is an unusual French horror film we've talked about here a few times before. It's an animated film of terrors...
Natwick and the three-fingered hand
The ASIFA blog asks one of the great ineffable questions, "Who invented the three-fingered hand?" An essay by animation legend Grim Natwick explains:
Someone...
Read and relax with John K
Legendary animator and curmudgeon John Kricfalusi has a lot of strongly held beliefs, and writes about them on his blog. Here, hs talks about...
Political corner
http://www.youtube.com/v/fimEJAklKso&hl=en&fs=1
Ted Rall sent us a link to his first cartoon, "Obama's First Day."
Rall wrote, drew and designed the characters for "President Obama's First...
Blessed be! SUPER FRIENDS marathon!
In these gloomy times, we all need something to perk us up, and here's news that we know will have everyone dancing in the...
CORALINE proceeds
Oregon Live looks at the ongoing work on Henry Selick's stop motion adaptation of Neil Gaiman's CORALINE, the debut film from a new animation...
MacFarlane’s Google deal
We are so link starved today that we are linking to this story about Seth MacFarlane's deal with Google for new webtoons:
In the Google...
New Max!! Get off of my side!
Does this cry out to be made into a sitcom, or what?
Here's a new "Jack and Max" comic, in which the two superpowered siblings...
Disney aims for boys with Disney XD
Corporate behemoth Disney has got the girls glued to their seats with fare like High School Musical and Hannah Montana, but tweener boys prefer...
