Mayerson on Animation

Journalist and animation historian Thad Komorowski put together a segment on Michael Sporn for the WBGO Journal on March 6.  It includes ...

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

--> I cannot remember exactly when I first met Michael Sporn.  In the mid-1970s I began attending events given by ASIFA-East...

Michael Sporn has died.  Michael Barrier and John Canemaker have put together an obituary for him.  I've known Michael for close to 40 y...

The clock is ticking on Michael Sporn's Kickstarter campaign to help finance his feature based on the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe....

Michael Sporn has been developing an animated feature about author Edgar Allan Poe and has decided to use Kickstarter to finance the project...

What started out as Michael Sporn trying to identify a boy in a picture has developed (in the comments) into several lengthy reminiscences ...

While I'm not surprised that Michael Barrier and Michael Sporn found this summer's animated features lacking, I am surprised by some...

I've been catching up with various sites since getting back from vacation and have found several articles that are thought provoking. Pe...

From Sporn's film of Abel's Island , adapted from the book by William Steig. Those of you in the New York area should remember the ...

Michael Sporn has posted the program for his retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art. It takes place November 9-12 and I recom...

The Ottawa International Animation Festival has posted the list of films that have been accepted. There is also a list of retrospectives ...

On Wednesday evening, I attended an ASIFA-East event marking the DVD release of four more of Michael Sporn's films: The Emperor's Ne...

I'm writing about this film not only because I thought it was one of the best I saw at the Ottawa festival, but also because I think the...