The Blackwing Diaries

An absolutely fascinating and must-read article by Michael Barrier examining some rare Pluto drawings . Thanks to an anonymous collector(I ...

Sad news for fans of goofball television on a Memorial Day: Charles Nelson Reilly has died . Lest some readers of Blackwing think I am going...

Look at these wonderful sketches from Cartoon Modern . There's plenty more where these came from. I am really remiss in keeping curre...

self-portrait by Will Finn, swiped from his new blog ...and another sucker answers the siren song of the blogosphere! Welcome Will Finn to ...

I was always told jet lag a)wears off after the first day or so, and b)is always worse when flying west to east. Neither has been true for ...

A page spread from the Golden book of Pater Pan. We had this one in the house when I was a kid, and I was nuts about it. The finished film ...

The Diaries are away in Paris at the moment. Back in a few days! Audrey Hepburn in "Funny Face" looks out over a Paris balcony. ...

Ward Kimball in his train room, circa 1977, courtesy of the Los Angeles Times. CLICK to make this image huge. Thanks to an entry in one of ...

From today's New York Times : "It’s Not a Sequel, but It Might Seem Like One After the Ads" By Michael Cieply LOS ANGELES, Apr...

Walt and his wife Lillian arriving in England in 1946; from "The Animated Man" by Michael Barrier As I've written before, my r...

Two pages of caricatures and the inside back cover of this one-off parodical Disney magazine. Pardon the quality of the scans--the interior...

It's Easter--and in honor of the day i thought I'd share with you one of the most disturbing images from your diarist's childhoo...

"The Mousetrap" was a oneshot magazine that certain of the Disney artists self published in the late 1930s, before the move to the...

I hope I got the title right. It's supposed to say "he does it again". Dave's most recent post is an upload of the draw...

The title of this entry has quotes around it because it's an old, old aphorism. [aph·o·rism [af-uh-riz-uhm]: a terse saying embodying a...