Mayerson on Animation

The Library of Congress National Film Registry invited me to write about the George Pal Puppetoon Tulips Shall Grow .   It is one of the mos...

Feb. 3, 1952 - Aug. 20, 2015 Richard Cohen, an artist who contributed to the early days of computer animation and digital visual effects...

The Gobelins signal films for this year's Annecy festival are turning up online.  They are all dedicated to women animators.  As usual, ...

There's going to be a new 3 Stooges animated series.  Let's look at how the Stooges have been treated in animation in the past. ...

Courtesy of Mark Evanier , here is a link to a page of rare video interviews with animation personnel, many of whom were not usually the fo...

On Saturday night at 2:15 A.M. Eastern Time (really early Sunday morning), Turner Classic Movies will run a genuine rarity.  Twice Upon a ...

Mami Sunada's documentary on the creation of The Wind Rises , The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness , is a fascinating film for a wide var...

When I started in computer animation in 1985, there were five studios that dominated the field: Robert Abel and Associates, Digital Produc...

If you ask anyone in North America to name a comic book company, they would probably name Marvel or DC.  Possibly they'd name Archie. ...

Silent animation is esoteric, even to people who love animation.  Not much of it is shown anymore and animation has evolved so much from t...

Steve Stanchfield (right) with Robert Osborne Due to a snafu last October 6, TCM didn't run its scheduled program of Van Beuren cart...

Robert Osborne (left) with John Canemaker Steve Stanchfield Tom Stathes On Monday, October 6, starting at 8 p.m. Eastern time,...

Next Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States was to announce whether it would hear an appeal from the Jack Kirby estate over the es...

This is the third volume by Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell chronicalling the life and career of Alex Toth.  Toth spent the bulk of his c...

Jake Friedman is working on an authorized biography of animator Art Babbitt.  He also has a blog where he has been publishing various Babb...

John Canemaker has generously shared a lengthy video interview with the late Tissa David. It is part autobiography, part nuts and bolts in...

"The head of a large studio once said privately that in his candid opinion the motion picture business was 25 per cent honest busine...

For a short month, February has a lot of anniversaries, and this February marks several milestones. February 8 was the 100th anniversary o...

Richard Williams I will write an entry about TAAFI's third day, but Kevin Schreck's documentary Persistance of Vision , which s...

Check these out.  Gag cartoons from various Fleischer artists: Willard Bowsky (pictured), Tom Golden, Gordon Sheehan, Orestes Calpini, To...