David Gerstein is one of the smartest, best informed, most engaging writers there is about animation and comics. He was born to blog. But somehow he never has–until now. He’s launched Ramapith, and I hope very much that he’ll post there a heck of a lot more frequently than I’ve managed to write here recently. [...]
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No comment, just a picture, a link, and a silent tear. I almost didn’t go to the Disney animation preview at the San Diego Comic-Con. It was in Hall H, and anything in Hall H is there because thousands of people are going to show up. I didn’t wanted to wait in line for eons; I didn’t want to get trampled; I didn’t want to be [...] My PC World colleague Anne McDonald alerted me to this amazing story: A Japanese university has found 250 pieces of original Disney art in a closet, where they’d languished for almost 50 years after being displayed in Japanese department stores in a touring exhibit. The 1960 show was timed to coincide with the release of Sleeping [...] Slate piece defends Disney “cheapquels” and says they’re sometimes better than the films that inspired them; as far as I can tell, it’s not satire… 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 [...] You gotta think that this Friday, June 29th, just might be the most significant day in Steve Jobs’ life. On one hand, Apple and AT&T will release the iPhone, a product that we already know will go down in technology history as one of the most-hyped ever–and which stands a pretty good chance of being [...] Slate has been one of my favorite sites for a long time, and I’m happy to say that I’ve been doing a little writing for them lately. Here’s a new piece on GrandCentral, a service for folks with too many phones. Meanwhile, Slate has taken notice of the 1943 Disney employee manual that Jerry published on [...] |
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