The Blackwing Diaries

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 i...

Reposting this entry from 2005. More Moore is coming! I've got this thing for Fred Moore. Yes, me and about 5,000 other animat...

The cover of Mindy Johnson's Ink & Paint invites you into the world of Disney's past, but there's much more inside. ...

The banner for Canemaker's blog, with self-caricature If I always seem to be writing something about John Canemaker on this bl...

Dick Williams and John Canemaker in 1978, taken by the late Michael Sporn. I've been meaning to write about Richard Williams for a...

The Diane Disney Miller Hall at the museum with original "Pinocchio" posters on display. Film critics, animation p...

 From Barrier's blog, photographs of Jaxon posing for Bill Tytla's benefit on his "Night On Bald Mountian" anima...

It takes a long time to look through John Canemaker's new book   The Lost Notebook: Herman Schultheis and the Secrets of Walt Disney...

It's always an event when John Canemaker comes to Los Angeles-literally. In 2012 he was here to present and moderate a program  hono...

This Saturday, March 15, I'm moderating a panel at the Walt Disney Family Museum where I'll be talking with Claire Keane , Lore...

Is there anyone in animation who isn't excited by the work of Mary Blair?  Oh, probably a few misanthropes or those who go the contra...

Michael Sporn looking over Richard Williams' shoulder during production of "Raggedy Ann and Andy". Photograph by John Can...