Animation news, reviews and features from the BCDB blog, 2011 to 2017, kept here to read.
January 9, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
With 92% positive reviews in 2011, Aardman Animations' "Arthur Christmas" has been given the year's top Golden Tomato Award from the popular Rotten Tomatoes site, which ranks movies by how well film critics receive them.
January 9, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Due to a strange set of circumstances, Donald Duck's third cartoon "Don Donald" was actually released as a Mickey Mouse series cartoon!
January 6, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Artist, illustrator and animator Donald "Don" Pegler, creator of the unfortunate bugs seen in Tex Avery's commercials for Raid, died of lung cancer December 26 at his home in Park Ridge, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. He was 82.
January 6, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
David Seville can't blame AAAALVINNN! for showing off last Thursday at a suburban Chicago movie multiplex. Instead, a 34-year-old man has been charged after he allegedly made an all-over appearance in front of kids watching Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked.
January 6, 2012 · Dave Koch
a href="http://blog.bcdb.com/wp-content/uploads/ppg4.jpg"> CotD: We all know how The Powerpuff Girls were created; "Mr. Mojo's Rising" give us a look at the origins of Mojo Jojo- who came from the very same lab!
January 5, 2012 · Mr. Clevland
Born this day in Tokyo in 1941, Hayao Miyazak, a Japanese artist, film director and animator of many popular fantasy feature films. In his fifty year career he has produced and directed over a dozen internationally acclaimed films, along with partner Isao Takahata, founded Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company. The success of Miyazaki's films has invited comparisons with American animator Walt Disney, and he has been named one of the most influential people by Time magazine.
January 5, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Harry Fowler, a quintessential cockney actor with a career spanning over 100 major film and TV appearances through more than 60 years, died Wednesday. He was 85.
January 5, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: If you are ready for the swingin'est jive cartoon, then watch "Three Little Bops" get hep to all that is cool about being hot- cha!
January 4, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Aided by such films as Gore Verbinski's animated Rango, Paramount Pictures announced Monday that it ended 2011 in the No. 1 position among all studios.
January 4, 2012 · Mr. Clevland
From January 18 through March 10, Pittsburgh's ToonSeum and the Museum of Uncut Funk present Funky Turns Forty, an exhibit celebrating the legacy of the first wave of positive black animated characters of the 1970s.
January 4, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
The five films -- and their producers -- are The Adventures of Tintin (Producers: Peter Jackson, Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg), Cars 2 (Producer: Denise Ream), Kung Fu Panda 2 (Producer: Melissa Cobb), Puss in Boots (Producers: Joe M. Aguilar and Latifa Ouaou) and Rango (Producers: John B. Carls and Gore Verbinski).
January 4, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: The Heckle and Jeckle series debuted with "The Talking Magpies" probably TerryToons most famous series.
January 3, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Paramount Pictures' "Rango" has been named Best Animated Feature at the 15th Annual Online Film Critics Society Awards, the 200-member society announced Monday.
January 3, 2012 · Mr. Clevland
Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn" has opened at No. 1 in both Australia and New Zealand.
January 3, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Ron Osenbaugh, a special photo effects supervisor for Disney who worked on 1985's The Black Cauldron, died December 26 at Glendora Nursing Home in Wooster, Ohio. He was 79.
January 3, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Often overshadowed by the other directors, McKimson made some great cartoons. "Gorilla My Dreams" is classic Bugs, and as funny as any Freleng or Jones.
January 2, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Oscar-nominated British actress Helena Bonham Carter, the voice of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, was named a Commanders of the Order of the British Empire on Saturday for services to drama.
January 2, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Some H-B cartoons seemed to gravitate to animals in a flying ark. "Debt And Taxes" from The Peter Potamus Show is a good example.
January 1, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Both a cartoon and a song, "Der Fuehrer's Face" does the impossible- it makes Hitler and Nazis funny (but only in Donald's world).
December 31, 2011 · Dave Koch
CotD: Last cartoon of the year and we choose "The Dot And The Line", an Academy Award winner for Chuck Jones. Watch it today and see why this won!