I’ve written before of Heritage Comics’ wondrous auctions, and their upcoming one is another doozy. I’ve been browsing mostly through the original comic strip art; if this stuff made up the collection of a cartoon museum, it would be a formidable institution. There are several E.C. Segar Popeye dailys, so many terrific Chester Gould Dick [...]

Here’s an interesting article from The New York Times (registration probably required) about DisneyWar, the upcoming book by James B. Stewart about the ongoing controversy over Michael Eisner’s stewardship of Disney. Apparently, the company’s already scared witless over the book’s revelations.

I don’t know how much it’ll discuss animation–one assumes that Roy Disney is a [...]

If my home was about two blocks to the east of where it stands, I’d have a new state senator. A lady named Carole Migden won the office in last November’s election, and is presumably now serving her constituents well in Sacramento.

I don’t know anything about Carole Migden’s background or politics, but I do know [...]

From Patrick Di Justo, via my friend Paul Boutin’s blog:

“A four year old girl, with her father’s help, created a silly
song about a German cartoon character, Schnappi the Little
Crocodile.

The song has been number one on [...]

Bill Watterson still keeps an exceedingly low profile, but here’s the first significant Calvin and Hobbes news since the strip left newspapers nine years ago: Andrews & McMeel will be publishing The Complete Calvin and Hobbes in September. Unlike The Complete Peanuts, this won’t be a long, drawn-out publishing project: For $150, you’ll get three [...]

The first Web site about Scrappy is up and running at Scrappyland.com. Viva Oopy!

For what seems like–well, forever, but it’s been about eight months– I’ve been working (off and on) on Scrappyland, the first Web site about the greatest 1930s cartoon character that nobody remembers. And I’m almost ready to launch it. At the moment, the preview site is still up, but within the next couple of days [...]

Posting that last picture has given me an inexplicable urge to repost this 2003 Disneyland photograph:

I haven’t been to Disney World in a long time, so maybe I’m out of touch here–but I just learned about Pal Mickey, a $60 electronic doll you’re supposed to tote around the park. He apparently uses wireless technology to tell jokes, spout factoids about attractions, and say things like “Say, ‘Fantasmic!’ will be starting [...]