Mayerson on Animation

I want to recommend a book called Billion-Dollar Kiss: the Kiss that Saved DAWSON'S CREEK and Other Adventures in TV Writing by Jeffrey...

Thanks to an anonymous commenter in the previous posting here, I learned that Andrew Loomis's landmark art instruction book Creative Ill...

Will Finn has written two blog entrys ( here and here ) about what he sees as the deterioration in Chuck Jones' drawing ability towards...

While animation fans are still looking at Disney and other cartoons from the 1930's, they're not always aware of how the cartoons we...

Nominees for Best Animated Feature Perspeolis (Sony Pictures Classics) Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud Ratatouille (Walt Disney) Bra...

More on this cartoon to come.

Amid Amidi at Cartoon Brew has an excellent essay talking about Tex Avery's last days. For me, the heart of the is piece is this quot...

In 1979, as part of the Los Angeles International Film Exposition, there was a program called The Animator as Actor, coordinated by Steven P...

Having just seen Surf's Up , I was struck by the nature of conflict in the film compared to Ratatouille . Both films have animals who a...

There's a discussion going on about Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, probably prompted by the release of Jerry Beck's book, The Hanna Bar...

The Picture Show Man has a page dedicated to books on film coming out in 2008 and there are several covering aspects of animation. I don...

The first issue of Dean Yeagle's comic book version of Roald Dahl's Gremlins , pictured at left, will hit the comic shops on March ...

One of the interesting trends of recent years is creation of animated features with small crews. Bill Plympton is one example with films l...

Mags Tyer Uploaded by thadk The above compilation, done by Thad K , is a collection of Jim Tyer animation done for Terrytoons. Besides Migh...

In what's getting to be a year end tradition, JibJab once again looks back on the year that was .

Issue twenty of Illustration magazine has a lengthy article by Jack Harris on Andrew Loomis, the magazine illustrator and author of severa...

Here is the N.Y. Times obituary for Jack Zander, with contributions from Dean Yeagle and Nancy Beiman.

A friend of mine who worked on the last 26 episodes of Monster By Mistake saw this video and thought of me. While the above presents itsel...

Tom Sito has posted his memories of Jack Zander here . It turns out the photo I used in my previous entry was actually one of Tom with Jack...

I received an email from Margalit Fox of the New York Times informing me that Jack Zander passed away last Monday at the age of 99. The Tim...