Despite all appearances, I really am working on a major update to my Scrappyland site. I hope to have it up by the end of the month. Part of the problem is that every time I turn around, I discover more bizarre Scrappyana that needs documenting.

Besides a report on April’s Scrappyland event in Hollywood, the [...]

The third DVD box set of Warner cartoons is due on October 25th. Jaime Weinman has an annotated list of everything on the four discs.

They’ve sort of run out of obvious cartoons to put in these sets–and that’s good news, since this collection includes lots of cartoons from the thirties and forties, lesser-known but worthwhile [...]

Here’s a New York Times story on Dreamworks Animation SKG’s stock drop and general financial woes, due in part to sluggish DVD sales of Shrek 2 and Shark Tale. There seems to be a CGI-on-DVD malaise at the moment: Pixar has also been disappointed with The Incredibles’ performance.

I’m not sure if this is all a [...]

As long as I’m point you towards Gus Arriola-related stuff, here’s a fine interview from a few years ago, conducted by my friend John Province.

Gus Arriola, creator of Gordo, may the the most underappreciated of comics’ greatest artists–his best work is as well-designed, warm, and funny as any newspaper comics I can think of. Arriola has been retired for years now, following a long career, and I was delighted to stumble across a radio show called Latino USA yesterday, [...]

Mark Evanier has reported the sad news that Selby Kelly, Walt Kelly’s widow and a talented cartoonist and writer in her own right, has left us.

I never got to meet Walt Kelly–my favorite cartoonist, no question–but I’m pleased to say that for a time in the mid-1970s Mrs. Kelly was a regular at Boston-area comics [...]

I kind of liked the way the Bullwinkle strip original I ran sideways looked, so I’m going to dig into my original art stash every now and then and run more pieces this way. Tilt your head and enjoy…

Here’s an example of Vi and George Smith’s The Smith Family, an unjustly obscure strip that ran [...]

Every time I’m foolish enough to think I’ve discovered all the important facts about Scrappy, something comes along to remind me how little I really know.

The latest example is a humdinger: I’ve just learned (from comic-strip expert Allan Holtz) that the 1937 Editor & Publisher Yearbook included a listing for a Scrappy comic strip (credited, [...]