Writer Mark Evanier reports that Howard Post, who worked primarily as a comic book cartoonist, has passed away from Alzheimer’s. Howard “Howie” Post, a mainstay of animation, comic books and strips since the mid-forties, passed away some time in the last week, reportedly due to Alzheimer’s. Howie was born November 2, 1926 and while no […]
Animated series South Park will air its 200th episode on Comedy Central in April 14. A website was recently set up for fans to congratulate its milestone. “South Park” debuted in 1997. Currently the show is on its 14th season.
A 368 page book collecting the comic book work of Milt Gross has been released by Craig Yoe. Milt Gross was a cartooning genius who was championed by Art Spiegelman in “Raw” and Dan Nadel in “Art Out of Time.” Gross wrote and drew what many consider to be the first graphic novel, “He Done […]
Mark Mayerson, noted animation historian and an instructor at Sheridan College, has written on the movie Avatar and motion capture in general. In what we would all acknowledge as typical animated films (Snow White, Toy Story), animation is production, not post-production. In films that have animated elements added (Jurassic Park), animation is done in post-production. […]
Details of what may be the forth Seth MacFarlane show was released by Alex Borstein recently. -Alex will voice the show?s main character, who is female. -The show will be developed by Alex and Gary Janetti, a television writer who helped in writing ?Stewie B. Goode?, which later became the first part of Stewie Griffin: […]
Veteran animator Rudy Larriva, whose animation credits extend to Warner Bros, United Production of America (UPA), Format Films, Ruby-Spears, among others, passed away on February 19th. He was 94. Despite his long range of credits, he is without a doubt known among animation fans as the director of several low-budget Road Runner cartoons, which were […]
Chowder creator C.H. Greenblatt has confirmed on his blog that the show has been canceled. We’re still finishing up lots of good episodes. I think you’ll see that we hit a really good groove third season. My biggest worry before we were cancelled was what would happen to the crew, but luckily, a large chunk […]
A pilot of Lincoln Peirce’s Spang Ho!, which was made for and rejected by Cartoon Network, has been posted online, along with a backstory on the making from the creator himself. Lincoln Peirce is a creator of the nationally syndicated comic strip Big Nate.
Miyazaki did not come to the 2003 Oscar ceremony, where he won the award for “Spirited Away”, because he was boycotting America to protest the Iraq War, according to LA Times. However, this year he broke his boycott to be in a panel at the San Diego Comic Con. “The reason I wasnâ??t here for […]
I just posted an interview with cartoonist Bob Camp, who was a director on Ren & Stimpy. Read it here.
C.H. Greenblatt, creator of Cartoon Network’s Chowder, writes that the final episode of the show is being produced right now. We don’t know if there’ll be any more Chowders after this one, so we have to assume this is the end until we hear otherwise. As I was told, CN doesn’t cancel shows, they just […]
Sit Down, Shut Up, an animated sitcom that premiered on FOX in April, is shut down due to low ratings. The fifth episode, which was originally slated to air this Sunday, has been pulled from the schedule.
Joe Murray, creator of animated series Rocko’s Modern Life (1993-1996) and Camp Lazlo (2005-2008), announced on his blog that his eBook, Crafting a Cartoon, has been picked up for print publication by Random House. The eBook will be discontinued as a result (although it’s still available as I type this) and the book will come […]
The Simpsons went high-definition last Sunday. As part of the change a new opening was created, which can be seen on YouTube.
While known primarily for his work on Village Voice, Jules Feiffer also worked in animation under cartoonist Gene Deitch. Below are two examples. First is “Foofle’s Train Ride”, a Terrytoons short released in 1959. Feiffer was credited for art designs in this short. It was directed by Dave Tendlar and originally released in CinemaScope by […]