Animation news, reviews and features from the BCDB blog, 2011 to 2017, kept here to read.
March 16, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Josie DeCarlo, the inspiration for singer-guitarist Josie McCoy of the 1970 Hanna-Barbera series Josie and the Pussycats and its successors, has died in her sleep, cartoon and comics historian Mark Evanier said Wednesday. Her age was not immediately available.
March 16, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Peg-Leg Pete's peg leg switches sides in "Mickey's Service Station" Watch for that, and two appearing/disappearing fingers on the video.
March 15, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
French actor Michel Duchaussoy, the voice of Aramis in John Halas' 1974 cartoon movie The Glorious Musketeers, died Monday from a heart attack. He was 73.
March 15, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Award-winning television creator, writer and producer Chuck Lorre will receive the 2012 Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award on Tuesday, June 12 at Alberta's Banff World Media Festival.
March 15, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Released on the DVD of The Incredibles, "Jack-Jack Attack" is a great alternate slice of time from Brad Bird's 2005 film.
March 14, 2012 · Paul Anderson
The much-anticipated Disney-Pixar animated film "Brave" will receive a glittering European premiere on the closing night of the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scottish First Minister First Minister Alex Salmond and festival artistic director Chris Fujiwara announced Tuesday.
March 14, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Special effects painter and final checker Kristine "Casey" Clayton, whose career lasted from 1972 until 2003, died December 2. Her age was unavailable. Clayton worked for Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, Orsatti, Cool Productions and Disney.
March 14, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: The third cartoon television production created by Hanna-Barbera, Quick Draw McGraw had an alter-ego El Kabong was featured in "Kabong Kabong's Kabong".
March 13, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Writer and editor Donald D. "Don" Markstein, creator of the online animation and comics compendium Don Markstein's Toonopedia, died due to respiratory failure following a prolonged illness, cartoon and comic book historian Mark Evanier said Sunday. He was 65.
March 13, 2012 · Paul Anderson
IndyCar, the sanctioning body for the IZOD IndyCar Series, Firestone Indy Lights and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, announced Monday a first-of-its-kind movie-themed collaboration with DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. for the company's animated feature film Turbo, scheduled for release on July 19, 2013.
March 13, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: One of the forty or so Art Davis WB shorts, "A Hick A Slick And A Chick" was his personal favorite.
March 12, 2012 · Mr. Clevland
Peter Lord, producer, director and co-founder of the Academy Award–winning Aardman Animation, will engage with audiences at the TIFF Kids International Film Festival during the Canadian premiere of his latest film, The Pirates! Band of Misfits.
March 12, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Grammy Award-winning singer Bette Midler, whose timeless vocals were heard in the Disney movies Oliver & Company (1988) and The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1996), will receive the annual Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award at the 43rd Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony on June 14 in Manhattan.
March 12, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Universal Pictures' "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" did much better at the North American box office in its second weekend than did Disney's John Carter in its first.
March 12, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: The third (and last) of the three Roger Rabbit shorts, "Trail Mix-Up" sees Baby Herman and Roger invade Yosemite Valley on vacation. < ./span>
March 11, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Internationally renowned French cartoonist and comic book creator Jean "Moebius" Giraud died Saturday in Paris of cancer. He was 73. Giraud began using the Moebius pseudonym in 1963 specifically for his fantasy and science fiction work, including storyboards for such films as the 1982 animated feature Les Maîtres Du Temps, released in English as Time Masters. He and director Rene Laloux shared the award for Best Children's Film at the Fantafestival that year.
March 11, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Karen Marie Greslie, an animation color stylist in a career spanning 40 years, died February 29 after a long battle with cancer. The La Tuna Canyon, California resident was 68.
March 11, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Cab Calloway's first appearance in a Betty Boop cartoon was in 1932's "Minnie The Moocher" which begins with actual film footage of Cab Calloway dancing in front of his orchestra.
March 10, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Peter Bergman, a founding member of the Firesign Theatre and the driving force behind Radio Free Oz in all its incarnations, died early Friday morning due to complications from leukemia. He was 72.
March 10, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: March must be Daffy Duck month! We have another Daffy cartoon today with "Rocket Squad" which pairs the duck with Porky as they protect the cosmos from evil-doers.