Tag: Iwao Takamoto
‘Jellystone!’: C. H. Greenblatt Re-introduces Thoroughly Modern Hanna-Barbera Toons
*This article originally appeared in the August '21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 312)***
Hey, hey, hey! This week, Yogi and many of his pals...
Warner Animation’s ‘Scoob!’ Cracks the Case of the Loveable Great Dane
***This article originally appeared in the May '20 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 300)***
In his later years, Joseph Barbera was asked why he thought...
Warner Animation Group Shares Details of 2020’s ‘Scooby-Doo’ Pic
One of the hottest tickets at last week’s Annecy festival was Warner Bros.’ Scoob! Work in Progress session which featured director Tony Cervone, production...
The True Tale of Br’er Oscar
Every year around Academy Award time, I think about a particular film, one that despite its polarizing controversy broke new ground for both Hollywood...
Meryl Streep’s Anti-Disney Speech Sparks Controversy
Actress Meryl Streep is famous for making charming and often hilarious speeches at awards ceremonies. However, her latest speech at the National Board of...
Animation’s Legendary (Semi-) Lost Film
Genuinely lost films in feature animation are so rare as to qualify as unique, but there is at least one: Hanna-Barbera's Rock Odyssey. Intended...
Old Visitor from Another Planet
One of the themes of the 2013 Comic-Con, which ended last week, was the 75th anniversary of the most popular space alien of American...
Goodbye, Dali
It has been 10 years now since the release of the longest-in-production film in history, Disney's animated short Destino. Begun in 1945 as a...
Iwao and Party Time at Disney
January 8th, 2013, just a little over one week away from my setting down these words, will mark the fifth anniversary of the sudden...
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...
Tales from the Toon Trenches: Big Roy’s Bad Day
When the late, great American artist Iwao Takamoto and his wife Barbara asked me to help write his memoirs in 2005, I was stunned...
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