Korra in the kitchen, as portrayed by Janet Varney - THE ACTUAL VOICE OF KORRA!
(If you can’t tell, I’m kind of going through a Legend of Korra obsession right now. It took me way too long to finally start watching it, but now that I am…I’M HOOKED.)
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One of my favorite things about the holidays is digging through my comics, finding the PERFECT stories to match the merriment. While the St. Patrick’s Day pickings can be a li’l paltry, Halloween never fails to provide. Listed below are my Top 5 comics that take place on Halloween. If you have any others that you’d like to recommend, feel free to share ‘em in the comments section. I’m always looking for more!
This FREE, downloadable Walt Disney Prod. stationary (circa 1951) not only makes the PERFECT PRESENT for that diehard Disney fan in your life, it’s also the ideal canvas upon which to role-play your favorite old-school animators!
Sketch a curvy nude à la Freddie Moore! Create a kooky Christmas card à la Ward Kimball! Write an angry letter to the unions à la Walt Disney! The possibilities are LIMITLESS! For the full size stationary, click through. Continue reading
Cartoon Brew reports:
“Animation and visual effects studio Sony Pictures Imageworks has confirmed what many in the industry had suspected for a long while: the studio is moving its headquarters from Los Angeles to Vancouver, Canada to take advantage of generous tax credits provided by the Canadian government. This move, combined with Digital Domain’s jump to Vancouver and Rhythm & Hues’ bankruptcy, prompted Variety’s VFX chronicler David S. Cohen to say that the Los Angeles feature film visual effects industry is ‘in full collapse.’”
To read the full article, click here.
Sorry to get political so early in the morning — and on a Monday, no less. (Via.)
The NY Times has posted a beautifully written article about an autistic boy who slowly learned to interact openly and honestly with his family via the dialogue and facial/body expressions in Disney cartoons.
If you make cartoons, watch cartoons, love cartoons or have ever had even the smallest emotional epiphany due to something you’d seen in a cartoon, I wholeheartedly recommend you read it. The article is adapted from the upcoming book Life, Animated by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist — and father of the titular “son” — Ron Suskind.
WARNING: When you get to the part about “sidekicks,” you WILL tear up. Click here to read!
I’m taking the day off to open presents, fight with family and watch Christmas cartoons. See you tomorrow. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
This is one of those things that you stumble across on the internet and immediately feel the need to share with everyone you know. No, it’s not a cat on a piano or a Tardis-shaped wedding cake. It’s a BEAUTIFULLY worded review of Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises by animator/director Michael Sporn:
Due to the horrific imagery contained in this post, we are keeping the entire piece hidden behind a ‘Continue Reading’ link.
Viewer discretion is advised.
This here’s my new website. Pretty soon it will be a full-fledged entertainment epicenter. But for now it’s a testing ground of sorts, a place for me to start writing again after an unintentionally long hiatus.
My last blog (and Tumblr!) was muy myopic, a fanatically focused fansite dedicated solely to sussing out all things pertaining to Chris Sanders’ (then-unreleased) third film, The Croods. This blog will be a bit more all over the place. We’re talking cartoons and comic books, movies and television, literature and low culture — not to mention any and all drama and demons I’m in the midst of battling.
Here’s hoping you like it. Oh, and if’n you do — PLEASE TELL A FRIEND!
