Tag: Tex Avery
ToonSeum Pop-Up Spotlights WB Classics
In celebration of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's upcoming Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II April 10-13, the Toonseum in Pittsburgh has opened a pop-up...
Tex Avery’s Hometown Honors His Legacy
Tex Avery holds a special place in the hearts of most animation fans for the fantastic comedy shorts he directed for the likes of...
Gondry’s Animated Chomsky Movie Opens Friday
Tomorrow marks the debut of an indie animated picture that has been flying under the radar in recent weeks. The animated documentary Is the...
Time to Meet Cartoon Network’s ‘Uncle Grandpa’
The manic minds behind the channel's new 2D toon Uncle Grandpa give us a glimpse into their super-positive world.
Most of us have memories of...
Gene of All Trades
Some things stay with you for a lifetime. When I was a kid I read a Yogi Bear comic strip in the newspaper in...
New ‘Hotel Transylvania’ Short Debuts Friday
Fans who are hungry for more of Hotel Transylvania’s Drac and the rest of his monster pals have reason to celebrate this Friday. Sony...
Alexander Film: A Forgotten Toon Powerhouse
Some years back I was talking with a veteran animation director about animation’s Golden Age. “Golden age?” he replied, with an expression of disdain, “I...
Genndy Does the Monster Mash
Acclaimed animation world veteran Genndy Tartakovsky brings some old cartoon-y magic to Sony’s summer frightfest Hotel Transylvania.
Last summer, when Sony Animation announced that TV...
Tartakovsky Signs Overall Deal with Sony Animation
Acclaimed animation veteran Genndy Tartakovsky has inked an overall deal with Sony Pictures Animation. The overall agreement goes beyond his current role as director...
Euro Dash
DreamWorks’ delightful zoo buddies find some new European pals in the third chapter of the Madagascar trilogy.
After the huge box office success of their...
A Fin-de-Siècle Fantasy: ‘A Monster in Paris’
DreamWorks veteran Bibo Bergeron goes back to his French roots with A Monster in Paris, an elegant CG-animated feature set in 1910.
French director Bibo...
Ed Benedict and the Cartoon Revolution
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,...
Leon Schlesinger in Dollars and Scents!
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...
Comic-Con: Mike Judge and ‘Beavis and Butt-head’ Impress
Mike Judge and his beloved dim-witted duo Beavis and Butt-head also made an appearance at Comic-Con on Friday to spread the word about the...
The Looney Tunes Studio’s Near-Death Experience
Throughout the history of animation, there have been plenty of train wrecks (metaphorically speaking, of course), usually on the feature film side of things,...
Six Things You Can’t Miss at Annecy This Year!
We all know that the true animation fan’s summer officially begins in June, when the Annecy International Festival opens its doors to fans of...
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