Tag: Ub Iwerks
Popeye & Tintin Enter the Public Domain in 2025
Two icons of comics and animation history will be entering the public domain in the U.S. as of January 1, 2025, opening their earliest...
Animation History Steals the Show in $4M Glad Museum Auction at Heritage
Heritage now claims the six most successful animation art auctions ever held, with the addition of its latest four-day event which wrapped up on...
Mickey’s Welcome to the Public Domain Includes Rokit Revamp, Horror Flicks
With the earliest incarnation of Mickey Mouse now officially in the public domain, 95 years since the debut of Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks'...
Disney Centennial Auction Sets New Animation Art Record with $4.8 Million
Presenting more than 1,500 lots, Heritage Auctions’ Celebrating 100 Years Of Disney: 1923–2023 took place June 23-26 and resulted in an overall record-setting animation...
The April Must-Have List
The Art of DreamWorks Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Now that Shrek's adorable and daring companion has made his triumphant, Oscar-nominated return to the...
Iwerks-Inspired Short ‘Danse Macabre’ Brings Halloween Spirit to Alamo Drafthouse
Since setting up shop as a single-screen theater in Austin, Texas, the Alamo Drafthouse has built a reputation as a hub for cinephiles and...
Disney Legend Ruthie Tompson Dies at 111 Years Old
Pioneering animation artist and camera technician Ruthie Tompson, whose long career with The Walt Disney Studios budded from child acting gigs to a post...
Largest ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Selection Ever Highlights Heritage Summer Animation Auction
The largest collections of one-of-a-kind production cels from the 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty, as well as animation drawings, storyboards, concept art, backgrounds, model sheets...
Don Iwerks Preserves His Father’s Legacy in New Book ‘Walt Disney’s Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub Iwerks’
In the recently published book Walt Disney’s Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub Iwerks (Disney Editions, SRP $60), the pioneering Disney Legend’s son Don...
Heritage Puts Biggest Hand-Drawn Disney Art Collection on the Block
The largest collection of original, hand-drawn, vintage Disney animation art ever offered in a single auction will cross the block November 27 in Heritage...
Disney’s Live-Action ‘Dumbo’ Flies with Thursday Night Auds
This Friday marks the release of Tim Burton’s live-action version of Disney’s much-loved 1941 animated classic Dumbo. The film did very well in Thursday...
Epic Mickey Mouse Exhibit Coming to Disney Family Museum
The legacy of Walt’s famous mouse continues to resonate. The Walt Disney Family Museum has announced plans for an amazing new exhibit titled Mickey...
Lost Oswald Short from Disney Discovered in Japan
An animation historian in Japan has come forward with a lost Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon which had been in his collection for 70...
The Animation Lover’s Holiday Gift Guide
FULLY BOOKED
The Art of Ferdinand (Titan Books, $40) puts the colorful world of Blue Sky’s latest release into your hooves, with 160 pages of...
Poetry and Personal Connection: ‘Window Horses’
An imaginative young Canadian poet named Rosie Ming (voiced by Sandra Oh) learns about Persian culture and the healing power of poetry when she...
VES Announces Inaugural Hall of Fame Honorees
Marking its milestone 20th anniversary, the Visual Effects Society has announced the inaugural VES Hall of Fame, and the industry luminaries set for the...
Rediscovering Oswald
Like many in the animation industry, I was very aware that Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was an early and popular animated character that eventually...
Disney, ‘Simpsons’ Cels at Auction in Dallas
Heritage Auctions will be offering up a collection of beautiful cels from old and new classics in Dallas during an Animation Art Signature Auction...
Lost Disney Oswald Short Uncovered in London
A researcher working at the British Film Institute in London has found in its archives the only known copy of a long-lost Walt Disney...
Rare Golden Age Toons to Screen in Hollywood
A special program of Golden Age Cartoons will screen at 3 p.m. June 20 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, presented by the American...
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