Mayerson on Animation

A reader named David Graves sent the following query: I found your name through your blogs, but feel that my naive question might be appropr...

Spike Lee is interviewed at Salon.com . While this quote does not relate directly to animation, it does relate to the larger film industry ...

Emru Townsend, founder and editor of fps , has been suffering from leukemia and monosomy 7. His family, especially sister Tamu, have been c...

We've all had bad photographs taken. I'm sure that everyone reading this has cringed at a driver's license, passport or yearboo...

Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Darryl F. Zanuck and John Lasseter. All of them worked as studio heads and film makers, but one of them was s...

Designer Hans Bacher ( Mulan , The Lion King ), the author of Dream Worlds , is back again with another blog dedicated to reconstructing t...

Dick Williams will be appearing at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on September 22. Here's the press release: MASTER CLASS: R...

In this segment, Cruella and the Baduns are searching for the dogs, who are fighting their way through a snow storm. They are rescued by a ...

The Comics Journal #292 will be available on September 4, and it includes an interview with animator Gene Deitch and his cartoonist sons Ki...

In this section, the pups and their parents spend some quiet time together before Horace and Jasper arrive to resume the chase. The Colonel...

Ed Catmull, the president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation, has written an article for the Harvard Business Review that can be read here....

Didier Ghez, editor of the Walt's People series of books interviewing those who worked with and for Disney, goes into detail on the cre...

Jaime Weinman has unearthed a 1960 interview with Michael Maltese from the New York Herald Tribune . Maltese, if you're unaware, was o...

I want to draw your attention to Stephen Rowley's review of Persepolis , which has only recently been released in Australia. It begins...

With regards to animated acting, I've written that I don't believe the technique (meaning drawn, cgi or stop motion) is responsibl...

Comicrazies has reprinted 22 examples of the comic strip Laura , drawn by Felix the Cat creator Otto Messmer, from 1932. Laura is the nam...

In this part of the film, Pongo and Perdita arrive at Hell Hall and attack Horace and Jasper, allowing Tibbs and the puppies to escape. Pong...