The Blackwing Diaries

From A. O. Scott : "The first 40 minutes or so of “Wall-E” — in which barely any dialogue is spoken, and almost no human figures appear...

Following up on my earlier post with the lunch menu from the Disney Burbank commissary (or "Studio Restaurant" as it's called...

Normally I'd eschew a post of this kind--there's not much that's news in it--but this year the animation-to-comics quotient is g...

"Character Animation Crash Course!" , a brand new book by legendary animator, Freddie Moore expert, collector of exquisite stuff, ...

Story artist Dave Derrick is a guy who inspires me with his talent, energy and determination to constantly seek out and accomplish new thing...

'Kung Fu Panda' Exclusive Video: Opening Dream Sequence James Baxter, Chris Sonnenberg, Jen Yuh, Simon Wells, Jed Diffenderfer and ...

Diaries reader and LA Times historian/writer/blogger Larry Harnisch directed me to an Ebay auction for the item pictured here, which has g...

The other day an advance copy of Scrambled Ink -the book that I and six of my friends had collaborated on-arrived in my mailbox. It's a...

illustration courtesy of Kristy Gordon I first saw her work a couple of years ago via some discussion on other pages, and I loved it. So ma...

Hans Perk of A. Film L.A. has been sharing his photographs of the (packed) interior of the Walt Disney Commissary taken in the 40s, and tha...

Here's an example of an Ebay auction that got away many weeks ago-a lot of commercially sold Mary Blair card designs. These are clearly...

I don't often do this (in the interests of recusing myself from places I've been associated with), but I want to congratulate the cr...

Tonight at 7pm Larry Edmunds Bookshop in Hollywood is doing a book signing/screening that should be a hoot. There are unfortunately too few...

With thanks to super-8 cameraman Randy Cartwright , here's an artifact of animation volleyball history. I think the participants ne...

drawing by Tissa David from Michael Sporn's blog Every time I visit Michael Sporn's blog I find something unusual or amazing or bot...