Michael Mallory

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Ollie Johnston: Even ‘Old Men’ Need a Lift!

Michael Mallory - October 27, 2011

Those of us who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s became familiar with the smiling, warm fellow who chatted with us over the...

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Eep-Opp-Ork…Uh-Oh!

Michael Mallory - October 20, 2011

It was the rock song that defined a generation. All right, it wasn’t really. Instead, Eep-Opp-Ork-Ah-Ah, which highlighted 1962’s A Date with Jet Screamer, the...

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The Best Interview in Animation

Michael Mallory - October 14, 2011

There are good interviews and bad interviews. Some interviewees stick to the marketing playbook at all costs while others tell stories they’ve told so...

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Your Co-Star Will Be Added in Post

Michael Mallory - October 6, 2011

What exactly is “animation acting” these days? As the industry continues to evolve in the digital age, so does the definition of what constitutes animation...

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Don’t Toot That Horn! Leonardi & the Art of Claiming Credit

Michael Mallory - September 29, 2011

Forget the F-word. In animation and related fields like comic books, there is only one serious danger word, the one you utter completely at...

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How Long Can They Hit a Homer?

Michael Mallory - September 22, 2011

It seems like only yesterday that those of us who write about animation were giving ink to the fact that The Simpsons was entering...

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Tales from the Toon Trenches: Big Roy’s Bad Day

Michael Mallory - September 15, 2011

When the late, great American artist Iwao Takamoto and his wife Barbara asked me to help write his memoirs in 2005, I was stunned...

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Alex Toth: Out of Griping Comes Success

Michael Mallory - September 8, 2011

Like politics, animation sometimes makes strange bedfellows, particularly when creative visions and egos are involved. Back in the late 1990s, when I was regularly...

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Tales from the Toon Trenches: Jobs in Animation

Michael Mallory - September 1, 2011

Not since Richard Nixon was seen leaving on a jet plane in 1974 has one man’s resignation created the kind of hoopla that Steve...

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Pixar’s Good-Luck Charm

Michael Mallory - August 25, 2011

Okay, so Cars 2 was the first film from Pixar Animation Studios that was greeted by the critics with less than Messianic reviews. Was...

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Ed Benedict and the Cartoon Revolution

Michael Mallory - August 18, 2011

The recent release of Disney’s Winnie the Pooh illustrates just how much the look of animation has changed over the past twenty years. Today,...

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The Case of the Copycat Concerto

Michael Mallory - August 11, 2011

It’s only August, but Oscar chatter is already starting to be heard. This has reminded me of one particular Oscar-winning cartoon, around which revolves...

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Leon Schlesinger in Dollars and Scents!

Michael Mallory - August 4, 2011

Animation corporate executives have not always been highly regarded by the artists who work for them, particularly during the Golden Age. One exception to that...

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Faster Than the Eye Can See!

Michael Mallory - July 27, 2011

One individual animation drawing goes by faster than the eye can register. Animators have an abundance of funny ideas. Animators working in England frequently...

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Daredevil Has a What?

Michael Mallory - July 20, 2011

As everyone reading this knows, the San Diego ComicCon is taking place this week. ComicCon is, among other things, the ultimate melding of the...

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Ray Harryhausen Talks Technique

Michael Mallory - July 13, 2011

There are legends, and then there are legends, and then there is Ray Harryhausen. The genius behind such stop-motion animation classics as The Seventh...

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Disney Wins By a Head

Michael Mallory - July 7, 2011

The name Arthur Davis may not be familiar to the casual toonhead, but not many artists had as long and productive a career in...

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The Looney Tunes Studio’s Near-Death Experience

Michael Mallory - June 29, 2011

Throughout the history of animation, there have been plenty of train wrecks (metaphorically speaking, of course), usually on the feature film side of things,...

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The ‘Toy Story’ Toy That Got Away

Michael Mallory - June 23, 2011

Tales From the Toon Trenches: From the Files of Michael Mallory Editor’s Note: Author and journalist Michael Mallory has been covering the animation and visual...

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