Animator Joe Barbera, co-creator with Bill Hanna of Yogi Bear, the Flintstones, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, and Tom and Jerry, died today. He was 95. Link
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Wearing Superman pajamas and covered with his Batman blanket, comic book illustrator Dave Cockrum died Sunday.
The 63-year-old overhauled the X-Men comic and helped popularize the relatively obscure Marvel Comics in the 1970s. He helped turn the title into a publishing sensation and major film franchise.
Cockrum died in his favorite chair at his home in Belton, [...]
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Modern Mechanix » WWII POWs get a Disney Designed Insignia
This May, 1945 article from Popular Science tells the story of how American POWs in a Nazi prison camp were smuggled a custom Donald Duck logo prepared by the Walt Disney Studios on the back of a Red-Cross delivered postcard.
DRY YANKEE HUMOR is puzzling guards at [...]
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SPEED RACER to be made by Wachowski Brothers?l
Larry and Andy Wachowski, the creators of the Matrix trilogy, may sign on to write and direct SPEED RACER for Warner Bros.
None of the parties would go on record, so as of now it simply stands as a rumor. It was reported years back that [...]
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Vintage cartoon round-up
Bibi has compiled a fantastic collection of links to some vintage animated shorts! All in the public domain, Bibi herself downloaded them from archive.org and made them available to view on Google Video. You’re awesome, Bibi! There are 27 Betty Boop cartoons, 11 Felix the Cat cartoons, and 3 Krazy Kat cartoons… [...]
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