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  • The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course

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    Wow! What an amazing treasure trove this is for anyone interested in animation or cartoon drawing. It should really be titled: “The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course for $8”. There is so much great stuff here that this should be a site of its own, but it’s actually part of the terrific ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project…

  • The Boing Boing Cartoon Circus

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    For the past week or so, Stephen Worth, Director of the always amazing ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive (which I have mentioned on several occasions) has been guest blogger on Boing Boing. During that stint he has given us a series of treats including the Boing Boing Cartoon Circus, a list of some wonderful classic cartoons. These…

  • Coraline Mystery Box

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    Back in 2003, I stumbled across a promotion for the book The Da Vinci Code, little known at the time, in the form of a series of web-based clues, originating on author Dan Brown’s web site and leading through a series of automated emails and other web sites to an eventual puzzle solution that garnered…

  • Walt Kelly

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    “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Walt Kelley’s revision of an 1813 quote from Commodore Perry (“We have met the enemy, and they are ours”), and his famous reworking of a classic Christmas song as “Deck the Halls with Boston Charlie”, may actually be familiar to a larger number of people than…

  • Steve Canyon original art

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    Most art done specifically for reproduction, whether it’s illustration, cartoons or comics, is drawn or painted at a different size than the printed piece, usually a bit larger. In the case of American comic books, it’s ordinarily about 1 1/2 times the printed size, but for newspaper strips it’s often 2 x the printed size…

  • Gustaf Tenggren (update)

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    Like his fellow illustrator and predecessor on Bland Tomtar och Troll (Among Elves and Trolls), John Bauer, Swedish-American illustrator Gustaf Tenggren doesn’t get the recognition he deserves, even among aficionados of Golden Age illustration. Ironically, Tenggren is probably better known for his later, very different style, in which he illustrated The Poky Little Puppy, than…