The Blackwing Diaries

Cartoon Brew mentioned this article in today's Los Angeles Times detailing the discovery among his possessions of the late Lee Blair...

Mark Kirkland on the El Capitan stage, in front of one of his photographs of Ollie Johnston. Ollie's holding a portrait of Walt Disney....

Excuse the sorry quality of the photo-it's from an Ebay auction I sadly didn't win. What a great little image by the great Joe Gran...

Many of you already know about this event scheduled for September 6, a benefit auction to help preserve the Sayama forest near Tokyo-a place...

"BOLT" artwork by director Byron Howard Walt Disney Feature Animation has a new name(Walt Disney Animation), a new head(John Lasse...

original illustration courtesy of the Kevin Kidney blog; for Walt Disney magazine Kevin Kidney has two abiding obsessions: Tiki art and Di...

Because girls read The Blackwing Diaries too, and because they're keen: From Brazilian designer Melissa . They're a soft plastic ...

photograph courtesy of David Derrick I've recently pointed readers to my friend, fellow story artist and co-author Dave Derrick--bu...

224 pages. Bill Peet. Joe Rinaldi. Don DaGradi. Roy Williams. Ub Iwerks. Burny Mattison. Vance Gerry. And probably some other people we kn...

Well, it's happened again: I plan to do a post on a subject and Cartoon Brew scoops me. But although they get probably 20 times the tr...

Most of us were at work, about to go to lunch. Animation mentor, teacher and all-around beloved guru Dave Master was being interviewed. O...

She was the first woman artist hired to work at Imagineering in 1955(the full obit can be read by clicking the title link-highly recommended...

I was standing in the entrance to my cubicle yesterday around 11:45 (talking to, of all people, visiting Disney veteran Floyd Norman) when t...

this year's haul Well. It was two years ago that I first blogged about my San Diego Comic Con experiences . I've just reread that o...

photograph by Jeff Pidgeon Deadline Hollywood Daily is featuring some nice ongoing reports from Comic Con written by Luke Thompson, who kno...