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Joe Barbera’s Snow Job

Michael Mallory - January 30, 2014

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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Anybody Here Seen Our Old ‘Friend, Martin?’

Michael Mallory - January 23, 2014

I am writing this blog on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and I know what a lot of you are thinking: this is very...

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‘Nut Job’ Ready to Crack the Box Office This Weekend

Michael Mallory - January 17, 2014

Toronto's ToonBox and Korea's Redrover tell the tale of a critter heist in the year's first new CG-animated feature, The Nut Job. There's a whole...

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A Century of Dinos

Michael Mallory - January 16, 2014

What is it about dinosaurs and animation? One could argue that animation is the perfect method of bringing them to life onscreen, which is why...

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There’s No Business Like Show Business

Michael Mallory - January 9, 2014

This past weekend Disney's Frozen achieved a rare distinction for any film in that it returned to number one box office status after having...

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If That Don’t Beat All

Michael Mallory - January 2, 2014

Like every other fan of CN's The Powerpuff Girls, I was delighted to hear that a new special titled Powerpuff Girls: Dance Pantsed, featuring...

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Betty Boop Takes a Lickin’

Michael Mallory - December 19, 2013

Remember when animation professionals used to take pains to argue that animation was not simply a children's entertainment medium? Neither do the studios. But...

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Shows While You Wait

Michael Mallory - December 12, 2013

Of everyone who has labored within the toon trenches over the decades, it is difficult to find anyone who has worked harder than Phil...

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That Other (Sort of) Thanksgiving Movie

Michael Mallory - December 5, 2013

One more Thanksgiving Day has come and gone, but this year there actually was a Thanksgiving-themed animated film out there. But nearly 20 years...

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A Toonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down

Michael Mallory - November 21, 2013

Trends come and trends go, but no trend came and went quite so quickly as the one that hit a little over a decade...

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‘Khumba’ Earns Its Stripes

Michael Mallory - November 15, 2013

The scoop on South African indie Triggerfish's second feature. You don't have to scratch too deeply to find the metaphors in Khumba, the second digitally...

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Kracov’s Toons: A Career with Legs

Michael Mallory - November 14, 2013

I've interviewed a lot of people over the past quarter-century and have heard a lot of stories about how individuals found their ways into...

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Animation’s Legendary (Semi-) Lost Film

Michael Mallory - November 6, 2013

Genuinely lost films in feature animation are so rare as to qualify as unique, but there is at least one: Hanna-Barbera's Rock Odyssey. Intended...

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Bela Lugosi Meets a Hollywood Animator

Michael Mallory - October 31, 2013

Halloween is upon us once again, which set me thinking about Walter Lantz. What, you may ask, does the purveyor of Woody Woodpecker and Andy...

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Lou Scheimer: An Appreciation

Michael Mallory - October 22, 2013

It seems that everyone in the animation business loved Lou Scheimer. The Saturday morning kidvid devotees of the 1960s (which included me) loved the...

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A Tale of Two Johns

Michael Mallory - October 17, 2013

Last week would have been John Lennon's 73rd birthday, a fact that was widely recognized around the world. While a lot of people realize...

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Get Ready for a Real Turkey Feast!

Michael Mallory - October 12, 2013

The creative forces behind Reel FX's new animated feature Free Birds discuss the choices behind their time-traveling turkey pic. Take two turkeys, one of them...

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The Best Western You’ve Never Seen

Michael Mallory - October 10, 2013

I've written before about the increasingly thin barriers between animation and live-action filmmaking, barriers that are becoming more transparent with time (check out Guillermo...

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The Shrinking Vocal Middle Class

Michael Mallory - October 3, 2013

One hears about the shrinking middle class all the time on the news, though a similar phenomenon is going on in the animation biz:...

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Flashback to the U.N. of Animation

Michael Mallory - September 26, 2013

Whatever happened to Klasky Csupo? All right, it's a rhetorical question since Klasky Csupo is still around, albeit in a somewhat different capacity than 15...

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