Mayerson on Animation

Cartoon Brew pointed to this cartoon by Hans Fischerkoesen, made in Germany in 1943. I think that I became familiar with his three wartime...

I'm only posting this as earlier today I said that Laika was perhaps the best positioned of what Fast Company referred to as the ...

Last week, the NY Times ran an article by Brian Stelter on people who are now earning a living from their postings on YouTube. For some, li...

After reading the entry on Delgo 's failure, Paul Teolis pointed me to this 2005 article from Fast Company on the "Baby Pixars....

According to Deadline Hollywood Daily , Delgo , an independent cgi-animated feature, opened in 2160 theatres this weekend and grossed $465,0...

Here's a lovely shot of Al Eugster taken by Harvey Deneroff in 1980 at Kim and Gifford Productions in New York. Al was 71, though he ...

Jeffrey Katzenberg was in Toronto last Monday, talking about DreamWorks' commitment to stereoscopic 3D and showing clips from the forthc...

Even before the current economic situation, certain media industries were in trouble. In particular, TV and newspapers had both been losing...

This isn't a doomsday scenario about there being only one customer left. It's about the fact that while people work for companies a...

I will, of course, remind everyone about this later, but Turner Classic Movies has an entire evening devoted to Chuck Jones next March 24. ...

(Click any image to enlarge.) As the semester draws to a close, I'm getting buried with grading, which is why I haven't updated this...

My sentiments, exactly. I just watched the new DVD release of Sleeping Beaut y. It’s the first time I’ve seen the film in over a decade and ...

This is the climax of the film where Cruella and the Baduns attempt to stop the truck carrying the dogs back to London. While it is an excit...

Richard Williams (left) and Ken Harris Spline Doctors has an audio interview with Richard Williams where he talks about his experiences wi...

Emru as I remember him. Emru Townsend passed away last night after a lengthy battle with leukemia. I can't remember how and when I first...

Here is a CBC news clip from 1961 where Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna explain the production process for making TV cartoons. It's a shame ...

I've updated the template to this blog so that "older posts" appears at the bottom of each page. This has also allowed me to ...

Over at popmatters.com , there's a review of Madagascar 2 which includes this interesting take on modern family films: Many know it as...