Tag: The Simpsons
Cartoon Network, FOX Dominate Animation Emmy Race
Earlier this morning (Thursday) the nominees for Outstanding Animated Program were announced by the TV Academy. Fox scored big time with three nods for...
Cartoons @ Comic-Con
The flashing lights, the cacophonous video displays, the thousands of people wearing only enough clothing to cover a few dozen…the annual Comic-Con International in...
John Coates and the American Invasion
Twenty-twelve is shaping up to be such a year of plenty for high-profile animated features—originals, adaptations and franchise sequels—that it is starting to remind...
Breakthrough’s ‘Crash Canyon’ Lands on MAV TV
Crash Canyon, the prime-time animated series produced by Breakthrough Entertainment will debut on MAV TV, a U.S. cable broadcaster reaching 45 million homes through...
Activision and Disney to Release ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Game
Activision and Disney Interactive announced this week that they will produce and distribute a Wreck-It Ralph video game, in conjunction with the release of...
‘Simpsons’ Producers to Get Special Saturn Award
The producers of FOX’s long-running animated series The Simpsons are not too happy with the TV Academy for its snubbing of animation writers (see...
Animation Writers File Complaint with TV Academy
Animation writers and exec producers aren’t happy with the TV Academy this year. Variety reports that more than 50 animation exec producers and writers,...
Cowabunga! Cartwright Receives Career Award
Actress Nancy Cartwright, the one-and-only voice of Bart Simpson, will receive the Don LaFontaine Legacy Award at this year’s PromaxBDA kudofest tonight (June 14)....
The Tooning Up of ‘Car Talk’
Here’s a pop-quiz for pop culture geeks: what do Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, and Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, from NPR’s Car...
Maggie Simpson to Star in 3-D Animated Short
The youngest star of The Simpsons family, Maggie, who had the distinction of being voiced by the late Elizabeth Taylor in one episode, will...
Comedy Central Reveals ‘Futurama’ S7 Details
Good news, everyone! Season 7 of Matt Groening and David X. Cohen’s Emmy-winning sci-fi comedy series Futurama will kick off on Comedy Central with...
Bill Plympton Launches New ‘Cheatin” Vlog
Indie animation titan Bill Plympton has just launched a new video blog, documenting his progress on his latest feature, Cheatin’. The director will deliver...
‘The Simpsons’ Snubs Fox News
Well in line with its tradition of subtle (and not so subtle) irreverence, Matt Groening’s The Simpsons blasted its host channel’s Fox News during...
New Animated Band PusherJones Makes Some Noise
Mover over, Gorillaz. There is a new animated rock band in town. Rollingstone.com reports that Velvet Revolver guitarist Dave Kushner has launched an "animated"...
The Sublime Madness of J.G. Quintel
The last time we chatted with J.G. Quintel, he was getting ready to launch his wonderful animated show Regular Show on Cartoon Network. Although...
Groening Reveals Site of ‘Simpsons’ Springfield
Sorry, Massachusetts... The Simpsons creator Matt Groening has finally revealed the location of the “real” Springfield, home of America’s favorite cartoon family for 25...
Photos: Groening Gets Hollywood Star
The Simpsons creator Matt Groening received an extra sweet Valentine on Tuesday as his Hollywood Walk of Fame Star was revealed. Hordes of fans...
Matt Groening donates $500,000 to UCLA
Matt Groening, the influential creator of The Simpsons, has donated $500,000 to UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and TV, according to the Los Angeles...
Ay Caramba! Scott Line to Feature Bart!
2012 is a banner year for perennial toon favorite The Simpsons! In addition to creator Matt Groening’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star and the...
Matt Groening to Receive Walk of Fame Star
It’s hard to believe that The Simpsons creator Matt Groening still hasn’t received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Well, that wrong...
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