The Blackwing Diaries

Heck Allen, Tex Avery's story man, in 1953. He stands outside the MGM animation building. This and many others are from Michael Barri...

  Moore with his wife Virginia and baby daughter in the late 1930s Robert Fred Moore , animator, was born on this day, September 7, 1911. ...

James-also known as Tim-Walker holds one of Fred Moore's original, well-worn pencils, along with a photo of Fred advising Ollie Johnst...

Some time back I posted a page from a vintage Chouinard course pamphlet . Here's one of the covers: Chouinard's class catalog, ci...

While on a Google search for Wilfred Jackson I happened upon this image, part of a terrific post of screen grabs Michael Sporn did back in ...

click to enlarge The original of the letter shown here was an item for sale at the bookshop I once worked in, Larry Edmunds in Hollywood (s...

I've written on these pages several times already about my colleague Dave Pimentel. Dave is a story artist who's probably the loude...

Submitted for your approval: the back cover of Chouinard's list of class offerings for the 1950-51 school year. How many of the instruct...

I can think of an awful lot of people who are going to enjoy this. The Hollywood Hills modernist home designed in 1939 by architect Harwell ...

As long as he's been working and as great as he is, he always seems to get better. From the page about his upcoming Paris exhibition No...

I was emailed about this yesterday(thanks, Joe and David Doherty), and it's something I thought the passersby here would definitely appr...

Growing around my desk this past month is a stack of fine new books I've wanted to write about. One by one they arrived, were pored over...

Some of my Blackwing pencils NOTE Today I heard from two story artists simultaneously with exciting news via Mark Frauenfelder at boingboin...

I saw the prototypes at Comic Con, and they were beautiful. There's a blonde and a raven-haired paint, and last but not least a red hea...

I really don't want to remember today as the anniversary of Joe Ranft's death. I understand why many would, as I'm a person who...