Mayerson on Animation

The new issue of Flip is online and the lead article is a look back at Filmation by three artists who worked there: Tom Sito, Bronwen Barr...

(There are spoilers below.) When I first watched Hayao Miyazaki's latest feature Ponyo , I thought it was another of Miyazaki's ecol...

Issue 88 of Alter Ego , a magazine devoted to comic book history, has a lengthy article on Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, an early comic b...

Independent animator Bill Plympton will appear at The Royal Theatre (608 College St, 5 blocks west of Bathurst) on Friday, Aug. 14 to screen...

Dan Merisanu, proprietor of Labyrinth Books in Toronto, devotes part of his store space to exhibiting art of various kinds. His latest pro...

I'm posting this for Ken Walker, the technologist of the post-grad CGI program. Here are the details: Hey All, Three years have gone by...

I wrote about Eve , a 1943 pantomime graphic novel by Fleischer/Famous animator/director Myron Waldman here . It's going to be reprinte...

Sheridan student Andrew Murray interned this summer at Ireland's Cartoon Saloon. While in Ireland, Andrew saw Bugs Bunny on Broadway ,...

(Thanks to Behram Khoshroo for pointing this out to me.)

Didier Ghez informs me that the 8th volume of Walt's People , a book series featuring interviews with people who worked with and were as...

I use Google Alerts to see if this blog is referenced elsewhere. Today, I received an email pointing to this link . It appears to be a gov...

The Globe and Mail has an interesting article about the state of the videogame business in Canada, including a detailed look at the Ontari...

(Thanks Paul Teolis .)

July 20 is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. To commemorate it, Turner Classic Movies is running films relating to the mo...

Updated below. There was a time when companies owned the resources they used to produce their products. A company was its factories. Howev...

Kino Video will be releasing a collection of Osamu Tezuka's work on DVD on July 28 to customers in the U.S. and Canada. The DVD contai...

( Updated . Here's an interview with Yannis Mallat, who will be in charge of the Ubisoft Toronto facility. Thanks to Alan Cook for t...

Steve Stanchfield of Thunderbean Animation is profiled at Greenbriar Picture Shows. Steve has lovingly put together a series of DVDs of pub...

I've been catching up on some movies lately and three of them have helped sharpen my thoughts on an aspect of animated films. The Commit...

(This information comes courtesy of Harvey Deneroff , who is one of the conference organizers.) The 21st Annual Society for Animation Studi...