Mayerson on Animation

... John Ford passed away. His films and the man are endlessly fascinating to me. And truth be told, if I had to choose between never...

Jack Kirby, 1946 Jack Kirby, who passed away in 1994, would have been 96 years old today.  Here are a selection of links to celebrate Ki...

(Click any of the images to enlarge.) August 25, 2013 marks the 100th birthday of Walt Kelly, one of the most important and influential ...

Updated below. “My wife and staff would ask me, ‘Why make a story about a man who made weapons of war?’” Miyazaki said in a 2011 interv...

I met Lou when I was starting out in animation in New York in the 1970s and we both worked at Nelvana in Toronto the early 1980s.  He was ...

Good advice for anyone doing creative work from Evan Dorkin , who has worked in comics and animation.

Go here for a very interesting financial analysis of how much Pixar is contributing to Disney's profits.  According to this article, Di...

In addition to Kevin Schreck's excellent documentary on Dick Williams, I also watched another shorts program.  I see that I mistakenly ...

Richard Williams I will write an entry about TAAFI's third day, but Kevin Schreck's documentary Persistance of Vision , which s...

Dr. Stuart Sumida The absolute highlight of TAAFI on Saturday was a talk by Dr. Stuart Sumida, a paleontologist by trade who consults w...

If you think that the movies coming out of Hollywood are all alike, take a look at the similarities of the posters that advertise them. ...

Anyone who has attended an animation festival knows that the cascade of talks and films tend to blur together.  In addition, TAAFI had three...

Courtesy of TAAFI (Toronto Animated Arts Festival International), I have just seen a terrific animated feature from France.  It's ori...

I would look forward to any new film directed by Miyazaki, but I'm especially curious about The Wind Rises .  It's about Jiro Hori...

Check these out.  Gag cartoons from various Fleischer artists: Willard Bowsky (pictured), Tom Golden, Gordon Sheehan, Orestes Calpini, To...

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Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation by Tom Sito is a sprawling chronicle of the development of cgi.  That sprawl is both a...

Jaime Weinman on recent Disney events: "But some people will miss the tradition that Walt Disney created—people who have animated f...

“Because there’s bad guys, and Mater, and Lightning McQueen, and SPIES!”  - Max (age 5) Slate recently published an article comparing...

Last September, Forbes published a list of the 20 most lucrative merchandising properties for the preceding year: 1. Disney Princess (Di...