“Though George Ward drew cartoons on his own, he’s best remembered for his work as Walt Kelly’s assistant on the newspaper comic strip Pogo. Ward was particularly known for drawing the bear depicted with Howland Owl and Albert the Alligator in these panels from the June 16 1957, Sunday strip; indeed, it’s said that Kelly [...]
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I’m a li’l late getting these photos up–I took them on July 4th–but I’m fortunate enough to live near one of the dozen 7-Elevens that have been transformed into Kwik-E-Marts as part of a shameless but amusing publicity stunt for The Simpsons Movie. I liked the standup figures of Springfield denizens and the Simpsons-related products for [...] Seen yesterday at the wonderful Point Isabel dog park in Richmond, California: A clean-up-after-your-dog mitt dispenser emblazoned with two portraits of Herge’s beloved Milou, or a pooch who could be his twin brother: I just happened across this spoken-word version of a piece I wrote for Slate a few weeks ago. The reader is a thousand times slicker than I’ll ever be, but I gotta say I don’t hear my words spoken in this voice when I put them together in my head… powered by ODEO I always tell myself I’ll get to LA to attend the nifty animation evens that are held there with alarming frequency. As my Apatoons friends can attest, I sometimes do–but more often, I’m stuck here in San Francisco. But I’m happy to report that I can attend next week’s tribute to Woody Woodpecker at Grauman’s Chinese [...] Joe Campana has posted a wonderful item at his blog in which he discovers that the building in front of which the Mintz Studio posed for staff photographs is still there–a bit sadder, perhaps, but intact. Don’t you just love the Web, and all it’s done for animation scholarship? If you don’t know Joe’s blog, [...] I can’t remember the last time I saw a movie and thought to myself, There’s so much worthy of comment here that I need to see it again before I’m ready to talk about it. But after seeing Ratatouille last night, that’s how I feel. Review forthcoming once I see it again–very shortly, I hope. And [...] I’m a little late to this story, but sad news this weekend from Gaza: Farfour, the Mickey Mouse lookalike on Hamas TV, is dead–murdered, in a shocking twist, by an Israeli officer. CNN has the |
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