Sketchy Thoughts: wen's'day comics, vol. 5, iss. 2

Blogs I Dig

Rankin/Bass-historian

Action Rings -
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Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation

The Influence Of Looney Tunes On Live-Action Filmmakers - What do Denis Villeneuve, Wes Anderson, Steven Spielberg, Jean-Luc Godard, and Stephen Chow all have in common?
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Gurney Journey

Leyendecker in Paris - J.C. Leyendecker, during his student days in Paris, wrote home to Chicago describing the work he was doing in the Académie Julian under Benjamin-Constant...
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ILLUSTRATION ART

ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 72 - This drawing by James Montgomery Flagg is as confident and brash as Flagg himself. The drawing is large-- nearly 30 inches (76 cm) and appears to have be...
2 days ago
Deja View

Earth Day/Marc Davis - Happy Earth Day! Today I hope we can all reflect and contemplate the importance of the natural world and its wildlife. One of its biggest champions was ...
2 days ago
BRIAN SIBLEY : the blog

EARTH DAY AND POGO - Inaugurated on this day 54 years ago, in 1970, Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection, Today it inc...
3 days ago
AnimationResources.org - Serving the Online Animation Community

RefPack057: Animation Resources Delivers Another Great Reference Pack! - Every other month, Animation Resources shares a new Reference Pack with its members. They consist of e-books packed with high resolution scans video down...
1 week ago
The Big Blog of Kids' Comics!

The Work of Norman McGary (Pt. I) - Good afternoon, Kids! So nice to visit with you all again! Today, and for the next few posts, the Big Blog will be highlighting a wonderful Golden Books ...
2 weeks ago
The Cartoon Cave

Happy Birthday, James Garner! - As is my annual tradition, here is my latest caricature of Jim Garner, and once again in his role as Jim Rockford in *The Rockford Files*. Though I've...
2 weeks ago
Tralfaz

Have You Seen These Cartoons? - Regular readers of this blog will likely know I’m a real fan of animated industrial films of the 1950s. Some fine artists who worked on theatrical cartoons...
2 weeks ago
Scribble Junkies

SLIDE Screenings - April & May, plus SPRING ART SALE - Hi fans, In my last blog post I told you about the screenings of my new feature animated film, "SLIDE" that took place in January and February. Well, I...
2 weeks ago
Mark Kausler's CatBlog

Felix Curio Shop Chuckles - Happy Easter to my Catblog readers! Here’s Felix from 19320619 to 19320702. In the Sundays, Felix is shipwrecked on a desert island with sailor Archie Pell...
3 weeks ago
Gustaf Tenggren

A Tenggren sleeper comes public - It is not common to get to see Tenggren art from the Disney period which have not been already published. Here is a recent example. Just recently, this con...
4 months ago
Ronald Searle Tribute

Searle on Wall St. - For *HOLIDAY* magazine, March 1964
7 months ago
ScrappleFace

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8 months ago
John Canemaker's Animated Eye

REMEMBERING RUSSELL MERRITT (1941-2023) - Russell Merritt (1941-2023) was a brilliant man of parts, a knowledgeable, articulate scholar whose lasting accomplishments in film history research, writi...
11 months ago
John K Stuff

Adding Gradients Before Painting Shadows and Textures - Once I have all my shapes filled with flat color I will want to add some gradients to some of the shapes.I make my gradients subtle by using 2 colors that ...
1 year ago
CandyCaneLand

- Genndy Tartakovsky's PRIMAL Season 2 2022
1 year ago
Bill Cone

- Late Notice, but I'm not using this platform as much as Instagram and Facebook. Come on over today between 11 and 5, but also check the page on this bl...
1 year ago
STANLEY STORIES

Lulu Book Three - The third and final (for now) volume of Drawn + Quarterly's full-color hardcover *Little Lulu* books has been out for a bit. I'm sad that the series has ...
2 years ago
One1more2time3's Weblog

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

Young Shaggy - Young Shaggy exploration poses and expressions for an early version of SCOOB. #scoobydoo #scoob #characterdesigner #hannabarbera #characteranimator
2 years ago
A. Film L.A.

Walt was honored for Three Little Pigs... And so were Pinto Colvig and Frank Churchill! - This article in the Hollywood Citizen News of Saturday 09/23/1933 pretty much speaks for itself: [image: 1] What I was not aware of was that this party at ...
3 years ago
decidedly disney

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY -
3 years ago
Supervised By Fred Avery: Tex Avery's Warner Brothers Cartoons

End Of The Line, Folks: Crazy Cruise - Original release date: 3/14/1942DVD AVAILABILITY: Wrongly included in a disc of Bob Clampett cartoons on Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5.You can s...
3 years ago
Where Danger Lives

WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME (1945) - 8.5.5 * “C’mon Diana, make with the tonsils.”* Believed to be a lost film for decades, 1945’s *Why Girls Leave Home* recently became findable for thos...
3 years ago
Cin-Eater

Sand (1949) - It feels a bit peculiar to finally watch *Sand*, a film that I sought for two decades years before giving up on it some five years ago. As is often the ...
3 years ago
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol

Back in print! - After 8 years of being out of print, I'm pleased to announce that my book on the making of the first animated Christmas special is back in print! But ...
3 years ago
Sometimes I Write Poetry

Courge on a Walk - If I could just muster Courage to trust her, Trust her to tell her What’s in my pocket. A piece of the earth Small, round, and of worth, Symbolic of love H...
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...
3 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.
3 years ago
The Blackwing Diaries

The Walt Disney Museum's Fred Moore Q&A - Is it 2021 yet? Because as of this writing in June 2020, it sometimes feels as though it may never get here. I think every one of us lives in hope for a be...
3 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
4 years ago
What About Thad?

Cartoon Logic Podcast - And yet another distraction from this brick and mortar blog… I’ve entered the world of podcasting with renowned animation director and historian Bob Jaques...
4 years ago
Cartoon SNAP

Frank Frazetta - Famous Funnies comic book covers from the 1950’s - [image: Frank Frazetta - Famous Funnies comic book covers from the 1950’s] All of the incredible artwork from *Frank Frazetta's Buck Rogers Famous Funnies c...
4 years ago
cartoondavid

bud e bear - your new pal!
5 years ago
FilmStruck

Remembering Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. on his birthday, here... - Remembering Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. on his birthday, here in GUNGA DIN (‘39)
5 years ago
Drawing and Doggerybaw.

Cats Talking Words returns from hiatus - FYI, my silly webcomic Cats Talking Words returns this Thursday night 9/6!! That is all. :)
5 years ago
Screwball Comics

Deluxe New Screwball Comics Retrospective Coming Soon! - *Screwball! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny* is in the works! It will be a large, full-color hardcover art book offering around 275 pages res...
5 years ago
TenNapel's Weblog

How Doug TenNapel Built a Koi Pond - I've always had a thing for amphibians. For most of my life I've raised newts, frogs, salamanders and toads. But this koi pond will be the largest expansio...
5 years ago
potato farm girl

Harpy Gee animated short. - March 3, 2018, while I was tabling at ECCC, the Harpy Gee short I'd spent two years in development with Nickelodeon went live on youtube. I'm still ove...
5 years ago
TAG Blog

Employment and Gender Diversity - The Animation Guild now has approximately 4230 artists, writers and technicians under its jurisdiction at studios in and around Los Angeles. Of these, sli...
6 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...
6 years ago
Camp Weedonwantcha

Why We’re Here -
6 years ago
Cartoons, Model Sheets, & Stuff

Pete Hothead Model Sheets - Here are a few model sheets from the first Pete Hothead short. Released in 1952 and directed former Tom & Jerry animator Pete Burness. Ted Parmelee was the...
6 years ago
David-Wasting-Paper

My Maps In The News -
6 years ago
UNCLE EDDIE'S THEORY CORNER!

TIME TO LEAVE LA! - MY KITTEN: "Go now. Saying goodbye is too hard!" EDDIE: " (Sob!) You're right, Kitten. It's better to make a clean break! The neighbors'll take good care ...
6 years ago
...Pencil Test Depot...

Dale Baer: Owl from Winnie the Pooh _003 -
7 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....
7 years ago
Temple of the Seven Golden Camels

"Presentation of Storyboards" by Joe Ranft - I posted a quick page of drawing tips by Vance Gerry on twitter and people seemed to like it. That reminded me of this old handout by Disney/Pixar legend J...
7 years ago
Anna Koehler's Bloggilious Blog Site

Absolution - Watch for the release of the feature film, Absolution, starring Anna Koehler as Fuzz, an ex convict biker chick out for revenge. Here are some images from...
7 years ago
Animation Backgrounds

- new on Facebook - Tom and Jerry: CRUISE CAT (MGM, 1952) pop on by and have a look. Here's the link - if you haven't joined already, just ask! https://www...
7 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...
7 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...
7 years ago
Insignificance: The Blog

nekojiru - I put together a haphazard translation of this comic page by nekojiru...
7 years ago
CATBEYER

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8 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 ...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 years ago
Jeffords Art

- More of the series I'm working on.
9 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...
9 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 ...
9 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...
9 years ago
Chris Sabatino Art

My Latest Cover: STEP by STEP! - PENCILS... INKS... COLOR... FINISHED!
9 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...
10 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 ...
10 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
10 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 ...
10 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
10 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...
10 years ago
uh oh.

asfaf - asdfa
11 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...
11 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. Hopefully...
11 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 ...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 years ago
Cowan Collection: Comic Art

cowancollectioncomic is under maintenance -
11 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 ...
11 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...
11 years ago
BLOG LIEBERMAN

GURLFRIENDZ - *Random studio drawing of the day...*
11 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...
12 years ago
"Blank Fields"

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12 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.
12 years ago
matt bugeja - animation

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

Page 16 - << First < Previous Next > Last >> << First < Previous ...
12 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.
12 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...
12 years ago
Popeye Animators

Bits of Brucker - Eli Brucker - whom I know nothing about other than the odd anecdote - worked for the Fleischer Studio animating in Seymour Kneitel's and Dave Tendlar's cre...
13 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...
13 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...
13 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...
13 years ago
OLD 24

Doughnuts - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjDtSdgxHBkendofvid[starttext]Film by Patrick Osborne[endtext]
13 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 ...
13 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...
13 years ago
illcomics

Demo Reel -
13 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, ...
13 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...
13 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 ...
13 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:*
13 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 ...
13 years ago
Lambey's Log

What the Be-geeze? I won an EMMY! - Can canadians even win one of those?? Apparently so.....I found out yesterday that I've won an Emmy for character design on Nickelodeon's Fanboy and Chum C...
13 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..... ...
14 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 ...
14 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...
15 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...
15 years ago
JMB Entertainment

American Holocaust!!! -
15 years ago
ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive

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Dictionary Evangelist

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Nnewts

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Uncle John's Crazy Town

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The Muppet Newsflash

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Dumm Comics

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Animation Brad

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

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Daily Word with Meg

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Theodorahermes's Blog

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Ratfist

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She Was Write

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Shane Glines' Cartoon Retro

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Illustration

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