On Saturday night, San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum held a benefit at Pixar in Emeryville. (This was the third such event; I wrote about an earlier one here.)
Once again, I was in attendance–and once again, I had a good time.

This one was a bit different than its predecessors. The last Pixar night was held shortly [...]

When I wrote of a Fleischer-themed restaurant with a giant Betty Boop on its sign, some accused me of making it all up. Actually, I was completely accurate, just off by 69 years and 3,000 miles.

When I was in Union Square here in SF this evening, I discovered that a restaurant called Betty Boop’s Diner [...]

In 1930, the aging Winsor McCay did a Lucky Strikes ad (which I just found in an issue of the old, original Life magazine). The gist: Up until then, there’d been an ancient and irriational prejudice against cigarettes, which Lucky had just eradicated forever by removing harmful irritants. (Thank goodness!)

Winsor’s cartoon makes no direct reference [...]

How about some 1930s book art featuring cartoon characters other than Oswald the Lucky Rabbit? I recently picked up a copy of The Princess Elizabeth Gift Book, a 1935 tie-in with the Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children. What it is, essentially, is an anthology of children’s stories, many of them by well-known authors [...]

Scary anti-semitic site (stored in Google cache) approvingly explains how loss of bunny to that shylock Charlie Mintz turned Walt into a Jew hater who inserted slurs into his cartoons from them on…

Stop the presses! All these stories saying that the Walt Disney Company is reacquiring Oswald the Rabbit are mistaken. Walt didn’t have a thing to do with Oswald’s rise to fame in the first place–he was at Universal from the get-go. I know it’s true…I read it in a Big Little Book.

Here’s another Oswald Big [...]

I spent much of yesterday at WonderCon, the San Francisco comics event which has become sort of a junior-sized San Diego Comics Con. While there, I picked up a cheap copy of Oswald Rabbit Plays G Man, a 1937 Big Little Book. (It’s missing its first 17 pages, but hey, it’s only going to increase [...]

C’mon in at 6pm PT to discuss the Disney-Oswald reunification–or anything else that’s on your mind…

They meet! They fight! Cartoon by Art Binninger–thanks, Art!