Mayerson on Animation

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Fresh from his appearance at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. (click to enlarge.)

I will be at the Ottawa Animation Festival from sometime Friday afternoon until Sunday afternoon. On Saturday at 1:00, I'll be on a pan...

Most animation fans are familiar with the sequence in Anchors Aweigh where Gene Kelly dances with Jerry, the mouse from Tom and Jerry carto...

Steve Bissette, a comics artist who also writes and publishes, has posted a great piece on issues surrounding collaborating on a graphic no...

Kim Deitch, son of animator Gene Deitch, has been writing an autobiography of sorts at The Comics Journal site. This installment mixes co...

(Click to enlarge. It's a big one.) Charlie Jane Anders at io9 has put together this chart showing how six large corporations essentia...

Cartoon Brew has a photo of Moore I've never seen, Jenny Lerew posts a lovely photo of Moore with his wife Virginia and their infant d...

Another Storycorps film from the Rauch Brothers.

Ed Catmull, currently the president of the Walt Disney and Pixar animation studios, was one of the key people in the development of computer...

Andrew Murray and Adam Hines are two Sheridan graduates who have a podcast talking about what it's like to be starting out in the anim...

August 28 would have been Jack Kirby's 94th birthday. Mark Evanier, who worked with Kirby, has his birthday tribute here , including ...

The Rauch Brothers' latest short combines documentary audio of grown children remembering their Sunday school teacher with animation d...

Salon has an interview with Bill Plympton .

Courtesy of Tom Knott, here's the complete contents of that 1975 Film Comment issue on animation. Get it quickly as Tom has indicated ...

I've been on the road for the last ten days: Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley (second time!) and now Loveland, Colorado. I...

In early 1975, Film Comment magazine devoted an entire, oversize issue to Hollywood cartoons. It's well worth finding in a library or ...

Here's an oddity. The trailer for MGM's 1935 feature No More Ladies starts and ends with an animated Leo the Lion. According to S...

I am sure that this judgment will be appealed, but a Federal court has ruled that the work Jack Kirby did for Marvel was "work-for-hire...

"According to [Spielberg], the biggest challenge was 'getting it to look like the drawings in the Hergé books. We love the art so...