I went to see the touring company of Chicago down in San Jose yesterday. A person of some relevance to the topics we discuss on this Web site was involved in the production:

Over at my other blog, I’ve been writing about a bevy of announcements that Apple Computer made at this week’s Macworld Expo here in San Francisco. One of them was of a new software product called iWork.

Is it just me, or would it have been entertaining for us animation fans if they’d called it iWorks? [...]

Hake’s Americana and Collectibles has been conducting auctions of high-grade cartoon memoribilia for years–but I’ve never seen an auction of theirs with as many things I’d love to own as their current one. The array of vintage character dolls is particularly stunning. Rather than describe them, I think I’ll just show a few. I don’t [...]

I almost fell off my chair today when I stopped by Mike’s site and found an enthusiastic review of Polar Express. Which I still haven’t seen–but now I’m a lot more inclined to make the trek to the multiplex before it disappears…

One of the joys of the Web is the ability to see news from all over with a few clicks. And I’m pleased to find that many, many sites around the world took notice of Will Eisner’s passing and paused to tell their readers just how important he was.

When Charles Schulz passed away, I compiled [...]

Will Eisner, who managed to be one of the most interesting artists working in comic books for two-thirds of a century, has died at the age of 87. I’m a little stunned–you don’t think of somewhat that vibrant dying so unexpectedly, regardless of his age–or at least I don’t. (At last year’s San Diego Con, [...]

After I posted my look at the Fractured Flickers DVD box set, Andrew Leal asked to see a moment from the tenth episode of Fractured Flickers, in which Bill Scott makes a rare on-screen appearance, in a cameo as a delivery man who shows up unexpectedly with a sandwich for Hans Conried. (Bill also showed [...]

We live in a strange world. For several decades, Jay Ward’s Fractured Flickers was obscure and mostly unavailable, unless you were enterprising enough to track down 16mm prints or video bootlegs. Jay Ward fans would have been grateful for the opportunity to see just an episode or two.

But thanks to the miracle of DVD box [...]