The Blackwing Diaries

Randy Cartwright : animator, story guy, committed iPhone geek. My kind of fellow. With a self-taught ability to program, this veteran Disne...

Shane Prigmore and Shannon Tindle are swell guys: friendly, generous with thoughts and props, and fun . They also draw and design like a ...

He's amazing, that's all. Leo Matsuda The above from his blog--his impressions after watching "The Wrestler". Click to en...

Yesterday's gathering to celebrate Bob Winquist was a wonderful event--a great time had by all. Every story and memory related by his...

Calling all interested parties: A CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF BOB WINQUIST TOMORROW: Saturday, January 31st at 4pm in the Main Gal...

From Electric Tiki. Kent Melton after Mary Blair Here's something that's got to rate as one of the neatest collectibles ever--sculp...

Ginger at work, winding Donald. Check out the version wearing what looks like a sombrero behind her. Lovers of classic film often double as...

I've just finished reading today's New York Times obituary on Andrew Wyeth and have turned to organizing the files on my laptop. In...

I really believed he'd live to be at least 100. Andrew Wyeth , youngest of five children of N.C. and Carolyn Wyeth, died at home in Chad...

If it seems like I'm doing a lot of plugs lately it's simply that there's so much going on that's worth knowing about. Even...

JJ Villard at work In the book Scrambled Ink my penultimate story was slam-banged up next to the closer by JJ Villard. I'd had no clue...

Please click this photograph of Walt Disney somewhere in (I believe) Irish waters in 1946, and see if you can tell what shoreline that may ...

I've posted about my friend and fellow story artist David Derrick before, pointing to his blog . He's a multi talented man who som...

click to enlarge Many moons ago during the Fred Moore marathon here I posted some terrific rough character drawings Fred Moore did of this ...

It's poignant to see what television-and animation-once could be as far back as 1966. Simple touches like this made viewing the warm o...