Mayerson on Animation

Andrew Loomis was a commercial artist who worked in the 1920's to the 1950's. In addition, he was a teacher and the author of a mu...

For years, Dan and Jessica Merisanu have brought their books on animation, illustration, manga and art instruction to various locations arou...

(This article is based on a paper given at the first conference of the Society for Animation Studies, held in Los Angeles, California in 198...

Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel about growing up during the Iranian revolution and her exile from Iran in the aftermath. ...

Now Hear This (1962) is a hard to find (and to watch?) cartoon directed by Chuck Jones at Warner Bros. You might describe it as his versio...

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have announced that they're making several films based on Herge's Tintin using motion capture. V...

Scott Kirsner has contributed an article to Release Print about the state of digital distribution for movies. He admits that Digital dist...

Some of you may remember Tony Rosato from his time on Saturday Night Live or from SCTV . I had the pleasure of directing Tony as a voice a...

The highlights of this sequence are Bill Tytla's Stromboli and Frank Thomas's Pinocchio. Tytla gets ownership over Stromboli in a w...

This is a delightful short written by Jules Feiffer and directed by Gene Deitch. Feiffer worked in animation in the 1950s at Terrytoons and...

I was in Montreal last weekend to see Once Upon A Time Walt Disney: The Sources of Inspiration for the Disney Studios at the Museum of Fine...

The rant below is a fitting way to mark this blog's first anniversary. Thanks to all of you for stopping by. A special thanks to Hans ...

(If you haven't seen On the Waterfront , please don't watch the clip. See the whole film first. This scene won't have the same ...

Eva Marie Saint and Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront Turner Classic Movies ran part 1 of a documentary on Marlon Brando last night, along ...

I don't mean to let so much time pass between posting the mosaic for a section and the commentary, but things do get in the way. If you...

As this is the graduation season, I'd like to point you to a commencement address that Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson mad...

Flip is a new animation webzine edited by Steve Moore that's worth checking out. I recommend the interview with Nancy Beiman, author o...

Today was Industry Day at Sheridan College, where members of studios come to view the films of the graduating animation students. Tomorrow,...

Eddie Fitzgerald has a piece on how the job of director doesn't seem to exist anymore in TV cartoons. I would agree that's the cas...