The Blackwing Diaries

  A Christmas card from Ray and Charles Eames Last night for their season finale, the PBS series American Masters aired a new documentary...

Profiles In History's "Icons of Animation" auction is happening right now, 11am PST, Saturday the 17th, so you still have a s...

...as imagined by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Woody Van Dyke, inspired by Dashiell Hammett and interpreted by Myrna Loy, William Powel...

  This is a repost of one of my earliest entries, shortly after I began this blog in 2005. I think it suits the season and so merits an enco...

Although it won't be on shelves for another seven months, last week Amazon put up the cover art and a short description for "The Ar...

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...