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!

One of the last remaining significant figures of the golden age of American animation is gone–Myron Waldman has left us, at the age of 97. Mike Dobbs has the news and a good career overview, covering everything from Waldman’s Fleischer work–he started at the studio 76 years ago–to Eve, his pioneering graphic novel.

I met Waldman [...]

CNN is reporting that all six members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have sent a letter to the Washington Post condemning this cartoon by Pulitzer winner Tom Toles, depicting Donald Rumsfeld as a doctor giving a rosy diagnosis to an multiple-amputee soldier who represents the Army.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff find Toles’ drawing offensive [...]

Just a quick note to say that I’m still collecting Scrappy stuff and hope to have an update to Scrappyland up in our lifetime. Meanwhile, here’s a quick Scrappy fix–an image from the side of the box that contained the Scrappy savings bank (circa 1935), depicting Scrappy lecturing Margy on the state of her finances [...]

See this Columbia Journalism Review e-mail thread for an interesting sidelight on the New Yorker article on P.L. Travers and Walt Disney I recently mentioned.