The Blackwing Diaries

from the collection of the Animation Guild: Warners animators and others locked out at Leon Schlesinger's studio(the supplier of Bugs Bu...

I'm waiting for a friend to go to Hollywood and see a rare 1914 Mary Pickford film, "Behind the Scenes" ...doodling on the cin...

I loaned my friend Patrick Mate the hefty tome on Bill Tytla I bought last year(a memoir and compendium of every scrap of stuff Tytla's...

The first is an animation rough by Glen Keane; the others are unidentified. Anyone? I'd hazard a guess and say that the second page, th...

Ratigan, the villain voiced by Vincent Price and animated by Glen Keane, in the originally titled "Basil of Baker Street" I'm ...

James Robertson is a young animation artist with a lovely, perceptive style. His blog has the dread title of The Iron Scythe , but the drawi...

At the end of the work week yesterday a good friend dropped into my office and pointed at this image, framed on the wall: ...which I've...

NOT mediocre I don't watch much television on a regularly scheduled basis, and almost no animated television at all. Just a moment ago ...

This Ed Benedict concept drawing, a study for "The Flinstones"(presumably Wilma) was posted today on Cartoon Brew ; it was reprint...

A gag drawing that I think was drawn by the guy on the right, David "Bud" Swift(or as Ward Kimball called him in later years, ...

be sure to click this one, the better to see the detail

It's been a busy week. I owe this blog a few more posts of Fred Moore material, so without too much philosophizing or context(for now, ...

Yet another of the "centaurette" studies for "Fantasia.