Michael Mallory

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Talking Villainy With Ian McKellen

Those who have had a long-term relationship with the San Diego Comic-Con, whose 2014 incarnation wrapped last week, know that what began as a...

The Early Hanna-Barbera, a la Benedict

San Diego Comic Con is once more upon us, offering a virtual Roman coliseum packed with all things pop culture. For baby boomer toonheads,...

The Man Who Liked Eddie Selzer!

Having been lucky enough to have met and spoken with many pioneering artists from the Golden Age of cartoons over the decades, I've picked...

The Other Animated Bugs

With so much discussion of border crossings in the news lately, I could not help but be reminded of one of the more unusual...

A Jolie Holiday from the Usual

Given all the reporting that has been done on Disney's Maleficent, the studio's revisionist take on the former doyenne of animated evil queens, one...

Everything Old Is New Again, Part 3: ‘X-Men’

I doubt that anyone is surprised that X-Men: Days of Future Past opened huge and promises to become one of the biggest hits of...

Everything Old is New Again, Part 2: ‘Godzilla’

In a summer filled with old, familiar characters getting high-tech, big-budget, cinematic reboots, the venerable Godzilla looks to stand fire-breathing-head-and-shoulders above just about everyone....

Everything Old Is New Again, Part 1: Captain America

The venerable Captain America has lately been burning up the box office through the film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which is not a...

Remembering Sol Sigall

I was saddened to get a call a few days ago from Martha Sigall informing me that her husband Sol had passed away. Sol...

Along Came A Spider

Maybe you haven't heard, but something called The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is going to be released in theaters in a few weeks. It is...

Five Toon Trivia Facts You Don’t Know (And With Good Reason)

When Howard Djadouin passed away last year at the age of 108, few in Hollywood mourned, chiefly because no one knew who he was....

A Tale of Two Walts

This weekend is the 20th anniversary of the passing of Walter Lantz, creator — or at least producer and sometime director — of Woody...

In Toon With The Universe

For a long time I've opined to anyone who would listen that I would regain hope for humanity when Neil deGrasse Tyson had his...

Firsts Among Equals

I doubt anyone was really surprised last week when Frozen was announced as the winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, though...

The True Tale of Br’er Oscar

Every year around Academy Award time, I think about a particular film, one that despite its polarizing controversy broke new ground for both Hollywood...

Best Issue Ever! (Really)

2014 is a big year for fiftieth anniversaries in pop culture. Mary Poppins, It's a Small World, and the Beatles' first appearance on The...

The Past Ain’t What It Used to Be!

How Rob Minkoff and his team at DreamWorks assembled a shiny, new version of Jay Ward's classic cartoon Mr. Peabody & Sherman. Recreating the past...

The Building Blocks of an Animated Franchise

Is anybody surprised that The LEGO Movie opened huge? It is the perfect storm film for today's Hollywood: a digitally animated movie based on...

Remembering Arthur Rankin Jr.

I've rarely spoken to any one with as much enthusiasm for his work as Arthur Rankin Jr., half of the prolific production team of...

Joe Barbera’s Snow Job

As regular readers of this blog know, whenever I'm at a loss for a story idea, I turn back to the book of Joe...
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