Sketchy Thoughts: November 2011

Blogs I Dig

Rankin/Bass-historian

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Tralfaz

June Lockhart - Most sitcom moms, way-back-when, dealt with their child’s problems. One dealt with more than that. She dealt with a dog and with a robot. And someone else...
14 hours ago
Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation

‘Claynosaurz’ Studio Heeboo Appoints Two-Time Emmy Winner Sherry Gunther Shugerman As Co-CEO - Heeboo, the studio behind 'Claynosaurz,' names Emmy-winning producer and long-time animation executive Sherry Gunther Shugerman as Co-CEO.
1 day ago
AnimationResources.org - Serving the Online Animation Community

STUDENTS: Learning To Animate- Simplicity vs Complexity - We had a question from a Facebook follower… “What kind of relevance do the the motion and principles of cartoons like Popeye and Mickey Mouse hold to con...
2 days ago
John K Stuff

Some Latest Stuff - I haven't posted much lately because I moved my posting to Patreon.But here is some stuff I have been drawing. I sometimes take my breakfast sketches and ...
2 days ago
ILLUSTRATION ART

ON TOP OF THE ENCHANTED MESA - Fans of Krazy Kat will be familiar with the "Enchanted Mesa," the mystical cliff in the remote desert. No human ever sees the top, but it is a place wh...
3 days ago
Mark Kausler's CatBlog

Jimmie Acorn Celebrates Fall - C Childhood Nostalgia Edition # One. Just for a change of content, here is an upload of material from my collection of vintage children’s magazine featur...
1 week ago
ScrappleFace

BOMWIN – Trải Nghiệm Cá Cược Trực Tuyến Đỉnh Cao 2025 - BOMWIN là nền tảng cá cược trực tuyến hàng đầu, mang đến trải nghiệm giải trí chất lượng cao cho thành viên khắp Đông Nam Á. Hệ thống bảo mật hiện đại kết ...
1 week ago
Deja View

Frank & Ollie, Drawn Together - In 2003 the Academy presented an evening honoring animation powerhouses Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. Needless to say, it was a fantastic event. I w...
1 week ago
Gurney Journey

Painting the Pre-Electric Night - Before electricity, nighttime seemed a lot brighter. That’s because electric lights constrict our pupils, making the darkness darker. Read more on my ...
1 week ago
The Big Blog of Kids' Comics!

Uncle Fuzzy Hare by Lynn Karp - Great to be with you all again, kids! Today we have the always wonderful *Lynn Karp*, a stalwart in kids’ comics through the Golden Age but unfortunately...
4 weeks ago
Ronald Searle Tribute

Anthony Quayle - The Searles were friendly with British actor Anthony Quayle whose birthday is today! *Ronald Searle, artist (1920-2011). Pair of Original Copper Print...
1 month ago
BRIAN SIBLEY : the blog

- This curious building is a raised granary, or 'hórreo', in the northern Spanish town of Avilés, which we recently visited. Among the most characteristic ...
2 months ago
John Canemaker's Animated Eye

IN SEARCH OF ROBERT DURANT FEILD - by John Canemaker INTRODUCTION By the time I became a teenager in 1956, my childhood interest in the history and techniques of animated films had become...
2 months ago
Gustaf Tenggren

Two legendary Snow White illustrations up for grabs - *Update: World record for Gustaf Tenggren!* This evening, August 7, these two illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren were sold for record prices: The Prince a...
2 months ago
The Cartoon Cave

Celebrating Disney's "The Great Mouse Detective"! - Today, July 2 2025 marks the 39th Anniversary of Disney's animated feature, "The Great Mouse Detective". This film is a particular favourite of mine, as...
3 months ago
CandyCaneLand

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4 months ago
A. Film L.A.

Gone too soon... - [image: 1] Anders Mastrup 1957-2025 Much too soon, my old A. Film business partner, collegue and friend through more than 36 years has left us. As a produc...
5 months ago
Scribble Junkies

Bill Plympton Animation School re-opening in March 2025! - Hey, everyone, I've decided that it's time once again to bring back the Plympton Animation School. It was about three years ago when I last held my super...
8 months ago
STANLEY STORIES

A Stanley Surprise for The New Year: Lost LITTLE LULU Stories Discovered! - https://www.tcj.com/john-stanleys-lost-little-lulu-stories-a-significant-find/ Tom Devlin of Drawn + Quarterly made a remarkable find in the papers of c...
9 months ago
One1more2time3's Weblog

Instagram - I continue here… http://www.Instagram.com/one1more2time3/
3 years ago
Inspector Cleuzo

Young Shaggy - Young Shaggy exploration poses and expressions for an early version of SCOOB. #scoobydoo #scoob #characterdesigner #hannabarbera #characteranimator
3 years ago
Noir of the Week

Deep Cover (1992) - During this time of protest and change as a film noir fan I keep going back to *Deep Cover*. A raw, political, honest film about cops and concerns that s...
5 years ago
Whirled of Kelly

Back-to-School Campaign - Much of Kelly's special art was dedicated to educational purpose. Note that his copyright notice is topsy-turvy.
5 years ago
Where Danger Lives

CHAMPION (1949) - Champion is usually described as a cautionary tale about the bitter price of ruthless ambition. Rubbish. The character of Midge Kelly is heroic, admira...
5 years ago
Penny Arcade TV: Strip Search

Welcome to PAX! Season 2, Ep. [Aus 2018]: Underdogs - Film/Edit by Octavio Abea Music in this episode: Never Looking Back by VESHZA (The Spark) Artlist
5 years ago
Supervised By Fred Avery: Tex Avery's Warner Brothers Cartoons

The Heckling Hare: "Cartoon Man Walks Out" - Release date: 7/5/41 (according to BCDB); 7/12/41 (according to Michael Barrier's Hollywood Cartoons) DVD/BR AVAILABILITY: Looney Tunes Golden Collection, ...
6 years ago
Cin-Eater

The Eddie Duchin Story (1956) - Stephen King gave an interview once where he was foolishly challenged with a question about literary history. I don’t know why, but journalists always thin...
6 years ago
decidedly disney

DAVE R SMITH (1940-2019) - News today of the passing, at the age of 78, of another friend of Disney: Dave Smith, founder of the Walt Disney Archive and, for forty years, its champion...
6 years ago
cartoondavid

bob - what a guy!
6 years ago
What About Thad?

Writing the Dell Way - This turned up on Howard Lowery’s auction site four years ago and I don’t recall ever seeing it posted elsewhere (and I swore I had), so I’m putting it her...
6 years ago
FilmStruck

Remembering Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. on his birthday, here... - Remembering Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. on his birthday, here in GUNGA DIN (‘39)
6 years ago
TenNapel's Weblog

Doug TenNapel will be Live drawing on youtube Today - This is just a reminder that I’ll be going over some basic cartoon body types today on my Youtube channel. There should be a number of Earthworm Jim bodies...
7 years ago
Sometimes I Write Poetry

Reflections of a Funeral - Hold on to the memories of old, For the Son is on the horizon. May our time spent here, On this temporal sphere, Direct us towards life's destination.
7 years ago
The Blackwing Diaries

Wednesday, March 14th, 2018: Mindy Johnson presents "Ink & Paint" in Hollywood - The cover of Mindy Johnson's Ink & Paint invites you into the world of Disney's past, but there's much more inside. It's been a long time between upd...
7 years ago
TCM’s Movie Blog

Jean Harlow, Mary Dees, and SARATOGA - I watched SARATOGA again last night for the first time in years and still found it very depressing. It is so sad to watch Harlow, clearly weak and listless...
7 years ago
TAG Blog

Los Angeles Times journalists vote 248-44 to unionize - The iconic LA Times Building. photo courtesy of nextimage3d. Journalists at the Los Angeles Times have overwhelmingly elected to form a union, voting 24...
7 years ago
Camp Weedonwantcha

Why We’re Here -
7 years ago
Drawing and Doggerybaw.

I do not recommend the flu. - Or, how I spent the first week of 2018. :|
7 years ago
Cartoons, Model Sheets, & Stuff

Hanna Barbera Title Cards - So I’ve decided to start posting on this blog again, at least semi-regularly for now. I’m going to start up again by sharing screenshots of some great titl...
7 years ago
UNCLE EDDIE'S THEORY CORNER!

THE LATEST ASTRONOMY PHOTOS: 7/19/2017 - Have you seen the latest Juno pictures of Jupiter's red spot? This one (above) was taken July 11 from less than 10,000 kilometers away. The origin of the...
8 years ago
Bill Cone

Pt. Reyes workshop this weekend, May 19-21 - I've got spots available in this weekend's workshop out at the Historic Lifeboat Station in Pt. Reyes. I do have a workshop page on this blog, but not sure...
8 years ago
David-Wasting-Paper

Maria Scrivan - Cartoonist Survey #284 - Syndicated cartoonist, illustrator, greeting card designer, and author, *Maria Scrivan* was nice enough to take the time out of her very busy schedul...
8 years ago
...Pencil Test Depot...

Cocoa Puffs pencil test by Mael Gourmelen - Cocoa Puffs pencil test from Maël GOURMELEN on Vimeo.
8 years ago
Screwball Comics

Rube Goldberg Wishes You a Merry Christmas - Over the course of his 35 years or so as a daily and Sunday newspaper humor cartoonist, Rube Goldberg celebrated many Christmases in pen and ink. Here is a...
8 years ago
flannelGRAPH | the intersection of art and faith

A Joyful Sound of Noise - Every so often you see a movie that you wish desperately to happen in reality. Sound of Noise (2010) is definitely one. At least for us weird artist types....
8 years ago
Temple of the Seven Golden Camels

Some Shameless Self Promotion - Sometimes people ask me if I'll ever write a book about storyboarding. I would never want to do that...I enjoy sharing what little I know for free, and I'v...
9 years ago
Animation Backgrounds

Are you out there? - Hi gang! I'm considering a commitment to frequent posting again. If you're interested - please comment. I love your feedback and much as I love hand draw...
9 years ago
Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy

A Less Hostile View of ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ - Having just seen Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass on opening night, with a paying audience at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, I am late in fil...
9 years ago
Animation Scoop

"Animation Scoop" Has A New URL Address - Attention! Please check your Bookmarks, clear your cache and refresh your browsers. *Animation Scoop* is now posting over here - at http://www.animationsco...
9 years ago
Insignificance: The Blog

nekojiru - I put together a haphazard translation of this comic page by nekojiru...
9 years ago
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol

Rocky & Bullwinkle in Mexico - Frank Hursh, head of background dept at Gamma If you grew up with *Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol*, it's a good bet you watched Rocky & Bullwinkle and all t...
9 years ago
CATBEYER

escaped Turkey -
9 years ago
Cartoon SNAP

Revengeance -- New Full-Length Hand-Drawn Animated Feature by Jim Lujan and Bill Plympton - *Jim Lujan*'s cartoons are mesmerizing, funny, funky and always created with his singular unique view of the world. Always an inspiration and just dang ...
10 years ago
ThadBlog

Digital Restoration - [image: Bolex1]Below are examples of the digital restoration projects I’ve been involved with (more images forthcoming). With my setup, I’m able to tackle ...
10 years ago
Michael Sporn Animation - Splog

ASIFA EAST Memorial for Michael Sporn March 2, 2015 - Michael Sporn was one of the giants of the New York animation community. From 1980 until his untimely death last year, Michael Sporn’s studio produced many...
10 years ago
potato farm girl

End of 2014 - 2014 is almost over, and here's some art and what I've been busy with the past few months. Poor neglected blogger! Harpy Gee is still moving along. I'd...
10 years ago
A New Write Place

(Not) Doing It On My Own - I often hear people my age say things like, "Everything I have, I earned," or "I've worked for everything I have," or "I am the reason why I have what I ha...
10 years ago
A Sketchy Past, The Art of Peter de Sève

Something Familiar - I wanted to do this idea for a New Yorker cover for years and never got around to it until now. As it happens, my "Hip Hops" piec...
10 years ago
Jeffords Art

- More of the series I'm working on.
11 years ago
Cowan Collection: Animation

Items Up For Auction - Here's the link to the July 1-2, 2014 Heritage Auction site that displays the items from our collection that are up for auction. July 1-2, 2014 Heritage An...
11 years ago
Misce-Looney-ous

Warner Bros. Production Art, Part Three: Cels - For part three of this series showcasing rare Warner Bros. art that has surfaced recently, let's take a look at some cels. These are highly sought after...
11 years ago
Cartoons of 1943

Sammy Salvage - A New Cartoon of 1943 - Steve Stanchfield has unearthed a new old cartoon from 1943; Sammy Salvage, from Ted Eshbaugh! Possibly the most antiquated looking American cartoon from 1...
11 years ago
Chris Sabatino Art

My Latest Cover: STEP by STEP! - PENCILS... INKS... COLOR... FINISHED!
11 years ago
Drawings from a Mexican

My Books are here! - I finally have them!!! There are some of you who I owe a copy of EVOKE to, so I'll be sending them out ASAP! Any one else who does not have a copy yet, OR...
11 years ago
The Christian Nihilist

A toe in the water - Always too many things. Always too many things. Divided in too many ways. Try too hard and too little all at once. I'm in my own way like a snake curled ...
11 years ago
Cartoons of 1939

Film Daily News of 1939 - Yowp/Tralfaz post of '39 animation news items: http://tralfaz.blogspot.com/2014/01/cartoons-of-1939-part-1.html
11 years ago
Ramapith: David Gerstein's Prehistoric Pop Culture Blog

Out of the Vaults: From Binko to Bluto - Omigosh... a Gerstein blogpost! They've been rarer than hen's teeth for quite awhile, and some of you know why—I've spent the last year stretched between...
11 years ago
Anna Koehler's Bloggilious Blog Site

Animate Me! See me in the Book Trailer!!! -
12 years ago
Cartoons of 1935

Film Daily, 1935 - Tralfaz's extensive Film Daily transcriptions from 1935: http://tralfaz.blogspot.com/2013/08/bye-bye-buddy-1935.html
12 years ago
Nick Cross' Plog

Louis Riel - Last year, I was approached to help develop a feature film based on the graphic novel, *Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography *by Chester Brown. I wrote a tr...
12 years ago
uh oh.

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12 years ago
Gabe Swarr

New Portfolio Site! - For you who are still following this blog, I have new portfolio site: (It has links to almost everything I've ever worked on) and a new daily sketch b...
12 years ago
Funny Cute

Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey, and Strip Search - Yeesh, I'm seriously terrible about updating this blog. Lately I've just had a lot to do, which means not much time for drawing personal stuff. Hopefull...
12 years ago
bill white cartoons

It's a sad, sad, sad, sad world.... - Hard to believe just a mere 3 weeks ago, Bill wrote his last blog. I am his wife, Sharon, or as most of you know me, Perfect Wifey. I wanted to be sure ...
12 years ago
Dabrosis

Animation - I have been re-visiting and working on several new animated shots. I think previously I always had this idea that you should always just work on a singl...
13 years ago
Animation Blog

Jacob Stålhammar "The Cats of Mars Meet the Toy Car" (2010) - Back to earth. Or not. The Cats of Mars Meet the Toy Car is an unusual piece of work, indebted to the verse style of *Dr Seuss*, utilising public domain m...
13 years ago
A Year (Or More) In Korea

Post The Second.5 - The next day we slept... a lot. Dick came to take us shopping along with Hannah. The first store smelled pretty strongly of fish, which makes sense, becaus...
13 years ago
Golden Gems

She-Rawk! "And so it begins..." Ep Debut - Hello Blog-Universe, I'm back! Well... sort of. Life has been crazy these past two years with many ups and downs the biggest being the passing of my swee...
13 years ago
Cowan Collection: Comic Art

cowancollectioncomic is under maintenance -
13 years ago
Pogo In Pandemonia

Prehysterical Critters - In case you don't ever make it over to *Whirled of Kelly*, I thought fans of *Pogo in Pandemonia* would enjoy Walt Kelly's prehysterical critters from the ...
13 years ago
Beware Of The Crosseyed Cyclops !

Slow to respond but not dead...yet. - Its been awhile since I've posted. This is for several reasons - the most pressing being legal. Also there's been some health worries and major computer pr...
13 years ago
BLOG LIEBERMAN

GURLFRIENDZ - *Random studio drawing of the day...*
13 years ago
Keith Lango Animation

Going dark... - Anyone who follows this site has probably noticed a distinct falloff in posts over the last year or more. Part of that has been intentional. I've just be...
13 years ago
"Blank Fields"

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13 years ago
Randall Scott - Character Animator

New General Demo Reel - This is a demo reel containing various animations and graphics I have done at work.
13 years ago
matt bugeja - animation

My Blog has MOVED.... - My Bog has moved to SplineBomb.com
14 years ago
Broken Trident

Page 16 - << First < Previous Next > Last >> << First < Previous ...
14 years ago
Snooper and Blabber: Gold Key #1, 1962 > Artist uncredited - Birthday Boomerang and the one pagers at beginning and end are by Harvey Eisenberg. – John K. Read the rest of this issue here.
14 years ago
Bouncing through Life with Froggy

Zoe Alika - So, it's been awhile since my last post... many things have been keeping me busy (in a good way)... ;) Zoe is my biggest time-consumer as many of you could...
14 years ago
John Bryson Band

New Instrumental - Just FYI, I posted a new song which is an instrumental so I hope that you all like it!!! Also, here is the link to some music if you'd like to share it wit...
14 years ago
Heaven is Here

l.o.v.e. - I've recently been thinking of how Jesus wants to be my best friend. I guess I've always known this to be true, but it's just hitting me more than bef...
14 years ago
MEL CRAWFORD

Little Lulu Has an Art Show-1 - Little Lulu Has an Art Show-1 Illustrated by Mel Crawford By Majorie Henderson Buell Copyright 1964 Blogged here: goldengems.blogspot.com/2009/02/little-l...
14 years ago
Popeye Animators

Holiday Greetinks!! - Some seasonal bits for your enjoyment: Gag cartoon from Fleischer's Animated News Dec 1935 - drawn by animator Hal Seeger.
14 years ago
OLD 24

Doughnuts - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjDtSdgxHBkendofvid[starttext]Film by Patrick Osborne[endtext]
14 years ago
Hairy Green Eyeball II

TEEN LOVE STORIES continued - Part 2 of TEEN LOVE STORIES No. 1 gives us another UK comic story and Twiggy, who was just about the hottest thing on the celebrity scene in 1967. You can ...
14 years ago
A. Film L.A. 2

MOVED AGAIN!!!! - Please uddate your links back to the original location! My blog is still at http://afilmla.blogspot.com, of course. Due to ISP changes etc, I moved all files...
14 years ago
illcomics

Demo Reel -
14 years ago
The Eutychus Journal

Fear - Isaiah 8v12-20 is pretty interesting. The one verse that catches me is v18. Isaiah was reminding the tribe that they were signs and symbols of the Lord, ...
14 years ago
Pete's Corner

Story Time - So I thought I'd take a break from the boring background info and try telling my favorite story from my time as a taxi driver. I'm trying to tell this from...
15 years ago
3D Modeler

Welcome - Thanks for stopping by my website. You can go ahead and take a look around. I have samples of some of my character animation, 3D modeling and illustration ...
15 years ago
Hairy Green Eyeball

We've moved! - *WE'VE MOVED!* We've run out of room on this site, so we've moved to: *http://hairygreeneyeball2.blogspot.com* *You'll see our logo:*
15 years ago
Lambey's Log

Kids and cartoons... - Hey folks! Sorry about the long break in posting. Things have been pretty busy around the Lambey household the last few months. My wife and I just had our ...
15 years ago
GUATEMALA 2010

School Ministry - Our ministry has primarily been going into schools and doing dramas, sharing life stories and praying over many students! The children bring us so ...
15 years ago
THUMB NAILS

Video Games - As I was posting this, it occurred to me that I don't have a video games category on my blog. Well, I can't see a better first post for exactly that..... ...
15 years ago
Lori's Animated Life

Class 6, Week 6 - Piggy Bank Blocking - "Piggy Bank" is my short film. Above is in the Blocking + stage. I'm learning how to work in drag and overlap into Blocking +. Also getting a good feel ...
15 years ago
blogblog

A reflection on marital conflict - To state it with an artless but useful clarity, I want to draw an analogy between marriage and the church. Last fall, Katie and I turned up at a pre-engage...
16 years ago
SnL - Haiti Trip

- Hello This is Damar again, We are now in Port au Prince and I am sitting in a stuffy cyber cafe to post this. We spent most of yesterday on the road to Por...
16 years ago
JMB Entertainment

American Holocaust!!! -
16 years ago
Nnewts

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Illustration

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She Was Write

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Dumm Comics

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The Muppet Newsflash

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Shane Glines' Cartoon Retro

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Dictionary Evangelist

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Cartoon Research | Dedicated To Classic Cartoons: Past, Present & Future

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Animation Brad

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Theodorahermes's Blog

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Ratfist

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ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive

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Daily Word with Meg

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Uncle John's Crazy Town

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