Category: Cartooning

Max Animation

A tip of o’ the Dog Rat toupée to tastewar for directing me to this video. Steve Stanchfield of Cartoon Research explains the details of what’s involved in restoring ancient animation.

Gordon Michael Dobbs is an old friend and a former colleague from during my stint in newspaper graphics. Mike has, at last, published part one of his history of the Fleischer animation studio. I say “at last” because Mike first told me about this project in 1979!

https://www.amazon.com/Made-Pen-Ink-Fleischer-Studios/dp/1733014446/

Mike talks about the Fleischer brothers and his book in this radio interview:

https://wesu.streamrewind.com/bookmarks/listen/370257

“A Clean Shaven Man” (1936)

Hanging in Plain Sight

Thanks to DVD, I’m seeing something I never noticed as a kid, all those times watching The Adventures of Superman. Clark Kent’s office had the exact same Currier & Ives framed print of harness racing that my parents had.

Jack Larson, Noel Neill, and George Reeves in The Adventures of Superman

I assume that, like the TV series, it was from the early 50’s. I took a last look at the lithograph while preparing for the estate sale after my father’s passing, and stupidly decided against keeping it.