The Blackwing Diaries

Over on Cartoon Brew this morning Amid Amidi notes a prominent newspaper's review of "Monster House". It's a jaw-dropper....

I've had a lot of emails asking where, post-Comic-Con, one can acquire one of these swell self-published sketchbooks by everyone's f...

Here's an interesting oddity kindly referred to me by a prominent animator whose name you'd all know(I'm not sure if he wants cr...

a handful of the 80 billion people attending the San Diego Comicon on Saturday I didn't think I would be there, but at the 11th hour I w...

For those in the greater Los Angekes area, the local PBS station KCET is airing a documentary all about Tintin and his creator, Hergé, at ...

To my ever vigilant, always-au courant readers: I've accidentally stumbled on a couple of recent Calarts students' blogs...which mak...

a frame from "Emily & le hamsterosaurus-Rex", © Aurélie Blard-Quintard 2006 I'm staggered...can this cool little film rea...

Next to P.D. Eastman, my favorite illustrator was Roy McKie, and the book "Ten Apples Up On Top" was the book of his I loved best....

Like almost every kid--and especially every youngest child, we inheritors of hand me down toys and books--I grew up with the Beginner Books ...

One of these I can ID, one I can't. The first still is from a Fox film, circa 1929-30; I 'm not 100% who any of the gentlemen are i...

Marlo by me Have you guys met this woman yet? I haven't, in real life, but I've admired her drawings: Marlo She's an insane, pow...

...the pencil , that is, not the blog. Animation Podcast's Clay Kaytis was kind enough to forward this swell blog post, wherein anot...

More about the Mary Pickford film I saw recently, and why I think her art has a lot to offer thoughtful animators as well as story artists. ...

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...