Mayerson on Animation

Kaj Pindal is the lucky owner of this New Year's greeting from animation legend Norman McLaren. There's much more than the above ph...

Can this film tell us something about animation? I recently saw The Artist , the new silent film that has been picking up awards at festival...

I keep an eye on politics, even though I've kept this blog free of it. However, today I saw this image of Ron Paul at Salon.com . Film ...

Howard Fine of the New York Film Critics Circle writes about why the group declined to give an award this year for the best animated featur...

I'm interested in this year's Oscar race for Best Animated Feature because my perception, right or wrong, is that it was a weak year...

No, I'm not implying that Bird is ignorant. But a great many of the reporters who interview him about Mission: Impossible - Ghost Prot...

The National Film Board of Canada holds an annual hothouse, where emerging Canadian animators are offered a 12 week internship at their faci...

This is something I've been meaning to do for a long time. The 1976 paperback collection, Dennis the Menace: Short Swinger , contains a ...

UPDATE : Here's a link to the schedule at the IFC Center. A major Studio Ghibli retrospective will soon be starting at IFC in New York ...

Profiles in History is having an auction entitled Icons of Animation on December 17. While the majority of items are out of my price range ...

If you've ever worked on a TV series, you know the limitations. The budgets are tight and the schedules are short. There is always the...

Bil Keane, cartoonist of the comic strip The Family Circus and the father of Disney animator Glen Keane, passed away on Tuesday at the age ...

I'm sure some of you have your eyes glaze over every time I bring up Jack Kirby or copyright. However, I keep mentioning it as intellec...

I haven't seen this film, but Movie Morlocks , the official blog of Turner Classic Movies, has a review and stills from the French anima...

The following 18 films have been submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the category of Best Animated Feature. Wit...

On November 4 at the NFB (150 John Street), the Toronto Student Animation Festival will screen. The doors open at 6:00 and the screening r...

Børge Ring called the above to my attention. It's a 2005 Tom and Jerry, co-directed by Joe Barbera. In some ways, it does a remarkabl...

Comic Book Resources has an interview with Dean Mullaney and Kurtis Findlay, who have edited Chuck Jones: The Dream that Never Was , a col...

The second volume of the reprinting Andew Loomis's art instruction books is now available. I've seen copies in stores, though Amazo...

By now, I assume everybody has experienced at least one of the lectures illustrated/animated by cartoon drawings on a whiteboard. They are ...