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Under the Table with J.B. and Friz

Michael Mallory - August 2, 2012

Most cartoon historians are aware that the fluid that fueled the medium during its Golden Age was not ink or paint, but alcohol. Among...

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The Most Shocking Cartoon Ever Made!

Michael Mallory - July 26, 2012

If the Annie Awards ever decided to create a category for Outstanding Achievement in Horrifyingly Bad Taste in Animation, 1989’s Quiet Please would be...

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Tom Kenny ‘Chucks’ It in School

Michael Mallory - July 19, 2012

To say that voice actor supreme Tom Kenny is perhaps best known as SpongeBob SquarePants is like saying Daniel Radcliffe is perhaps best known...

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Al Feldstein Leads the Pack

Michael Mallory - July 12, 2012

It is quite possible that you are reading these words from somewhere in the San Diego area while attending the 2012 Comic Con International,...

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Miss Bliss’s Wild Ride

Michael Mallory - July 5, 2012

Many enduring Hollywood careers have begun inauspiciously, but legendary voice actress Lucille Bliss’s tenure in Toon Town began by being taken for a ride...literally. Lucille...

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John Coates and the American Invasion

Michael Mallory - June 28, 2012

Twenty-twelve is shaping up to be such a year of plenty for high-profile animated features—originals, adaptations and franchise sequels—that it is starting to remind...

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Margaret Loesch Fights for Marvel

Michael Mallory - June 21, 2012

Stating that the animation biz has changed big-time over the last two decades could probably earn one the Nobel Prize in Obviousness. But animation...

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The Tooning Up of ‘Car Talk’

Michael Mallory - June 14, 2012

Here’s a pop-quiz for pop culture geeks: what do Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, and Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, from NPR’s Car...

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Flashback to That First ‘Madagascar’ Journey

Michael Mallory - June 7, 2012

Once upon a time (as all good fairy tales start) animated features offered audiences original images, stories and characters that moviegoers could not see...

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The Long, Strange Odyssey of ‘Foodfight!’

Michael Mallory - May 31, 2012

The news that the Godot of animation, Foodfight! was FINALLY going to be released (albeit only on DVD and only in Europe), puts an...

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Kathryn Beaumont: Training with Walt

Michael Mallory - May 24, 2012

Her name may be most familiar to Disney enthusiasts, and her face might be best recognized when interpreted by artists on cels, but her...

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Remembering Gene Kelly in Toon Town

Michael Mallory - May 17, 2012

Legendary dancer, actor, choreographer and director Gene Kelly is being feted this week by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is...

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‘Fantasia’ in the Key of Ray

Michael Mallory - May 10, 2012

Anyone who knows Ray Bradbury knows that he has a lifelong love of animation. The legendary author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles...

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Gene Deitch Sees Red!

Michael Mallory - May 3, 2012

Even some fans of UPA, who have rushed out to buy the new, long-awaited DVD collection of their classic theatrical cartoons, might not know...

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Disney’s Naughty Bits, Real and Imagined

Michael Mallory - April 26, 2012

Just when you start to think the old rumors about hidden dirty jokes in Disney animated features have died down, they get passed on...

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When The Three Stooges Got Animated

Michael Mallory - April 19, 2012

While the late Edward Bernds (1905-2000) was not a toiler in the toon trenches himself, he was on the periphery of the television cartoon...

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The Case for Robert McKimson

Michael Mallory - April 12, 2012

Unlike many toonheads, I’ve long been fascinated with the cartoons of Robert McKimson. McKimson was part of the Warner Bros. animation troika in the...

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An Offer Out of the Blu

Michael Mallory - April 5, 2012

Anybody working in any kind of creative pursuit knows that being in the right place at the right time, and making the right decision,...

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The Most Deliberately Forgotten Man in Animation

Michael Mallory - March 29, 2012

There are very few tragedies in the toon trade (not counting the release of Eight Crazy Nights), but the case of Leroy Poots certainly...

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Pizza Planet: It Delivers, Again and Again!

Michael Mallory - March 22, 2012

With just about everybody, everywhere, weighing in on the surprising flopping sound being made by Disney’s epic feature film John Carter, I’m going to...

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