Tag: Filmation
Filmation’s ‘The Adventures of Batman’ Complete Series Remaster Coming to Blu-ray
In the mood for some retro toon superhero action? Good news! One of Filmation’s most beloved animated series has been newly remastered in high...
Carl Bell, Animator Who Touched All Corners of the Industry, Has Died
News is circulating in the Hollywood animation community that animator Carl Angus Bell — a prolific artist whose 41-year career carried him across diverse...
Ed Asner, Voice Star of ‘Up,’ Dies Age 91
Ed Asner, a seven-time Emmy winner known to television history as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant and to...
Fred Ladd, Producer Who Introduced Anime to North America, Dies Age 94
Fred Laderman (known professionally as Fred Ladd), a television and film writer/producer who helped introduce and popularize Japanese anime in North America through classic...
VFX Artist, Illustrator George Jenson Dies Age 87
Oscar-nominated visual effects artist, art director and illustrator George Jenson -- whose credits include sci-fi classics Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star...
Shipka to Cast a Spell as Live-Action Sabrina
Is the world ready for a new Sabrina Spellman? Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men, Feud: Bette and Joan) has been cast in the lead role of...
Change Keeps Caped Crusader Young
Key projects in comics, animation and countless other media have made Batman more popular than ever as he celebrates his 75th anniversary.
He's survived the...
Releases Revisit 1960s DC Heroes, ‘Jetsons’
They're pitted against each other in the upcoming live-action movie Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, but the Man of Steel and the Caped...
Shows While You Wait
Of everyone who has labored within the toon trenches over the decades, it is difficult to find anyone who has worked harder than Phil...
Lou Scheimer: An Appreciation
It seems that everyone in the animation business loved Lou Scheimer. The Saturday morning kidvid devotees of the 1960s (which included me) loved the...
R.I.P. Lou Scheimer (1929-2013)
We are sad to report that TV animation giant Lou Scheimer has passed away at the age of 85. The Emmy and Grammy award-winning...
Love Him or Hate Him, This Guy Changed TV Animation
At a time when yet another national fistfight…um, I mean, debate…is heating up over who is responsible for the horrific gun violence in this...
ToonSeum Offers Tribute to ’70s-Era Black Animation
Pittsburgh’s ToonSeum is offering a unique retrospective of original production cels and drawings from the 1970s that promoted positive African American characters and storylines....
Animator Dan Mills dies at 80
We are sad to report that animator and layout artist Dan Mills, whose credits include He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and Family...
Animation Writer and Historian Earl Kress Dies at 60
We were saddened to learn of the recent death of beloved animation writer and historian and Animation Guild VP Earl Kress passed away recently at age...
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