Animation giant Bruce Timm once auditioned to draw a Star Wars comic. He failed to get the gig. Still, looking at Timm’s recently unearthed sample pages, I can’t help but wonder: Howzabout a Star Wars: The Animated Series?
To see the rest of Timm’s Star Wars art, click here.
Animation writer/director/storyboard artist/you-name-it-he-does-it Giancarlo Volpe just posted a comic strip he made (wait — he does comics now, too?!) about a focus group test he attended for Green Lantern: The Animated Series. (His credits on that one? Showrunner and producer.) It’s an interesting insight into the world of TV animation, especially the part where Volpe and the folks doing the testing walk away from the experience with completely different takes on the audience’s response. It’s a nauseating, nerve-wracking and excruciating experience, but there IS A happy ending — featuring no less than Batman: The Animated Series‘ Bruce Timm!
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I L-O-V-E these tees! Blending the logos from Bruce Timm’s 1990s Batman cartoons with the silhouettes of Sherlock and Watson was an inspired idea, and the results are as iconic as they are eye-catching. Both shirts are available on Amazon:
When DC branded their cartoon line, ‘DC Nation,’ they did so because it rhymed with ‘animation.’ What they forgot wuz, it ALSO rhymes with ‘cancelation’ — a problem that is plaguing their current crop of cartoons.
