Tags → “animation” 

05-Jan-2022

Thundarr

Maybe you’d like to read about Thundarr the Barbarian — one of my favorite cartoons when I was a kid. Deeply weird and VERY JACK KIRBY. I only learned that part years later. Also I am a fan of Mark Evanier. I learned his name in his comic DNAgents. I was buying them in 1983.

11-Aug-2020

New Bot Day! Welcome Dynomutt, Dog Wonder. The Dog Wonder can extend his neck and paws and often his heroics go awry. He worked with Blue Falcon to protect Big City in Hanna-Barbera’s The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976). I love dog-bots. And Joe Cool. And art. And social justice.

18-Aug-2019

RIP Richard Williams

Richard Williams has died. He is one of the people who has inspired me over the years. I have done rudimentary animation as part of my web work over the years. Some of that work was featured in a book on Macromedia Flash 2 a long time ago. I can’t claim the title of animator…

21-Jan-2012

Star Wars: Uncut

Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut. Star Wars ’77. Chunked into 15 second segments. Segments claimed by filmmakers, amatuers, animators, goofballs, and then the segments are reassembled into Star Wars. Certain people will find this beautiful, wonderful, incredible. I expect some people won’t be able to watch more than about 6 minutes. I watched the whole…

11-Jan-2012

Funky Monk

Funky Monk, from Small Fry, a wonderful short that played before The Muppets, which Leah and I saw a while back.

26-Feb-2010

Paul M Bowers

In this post from 8 years ago, I mention Paul M Bowers, a photographer that was around the corner from us at AVENCOM in San Diego. He took many of our photos. I thought I’d check out his site, http://www.paulmbowers.com/, and see how it had changed. I’m actually sort of delighted that it is the…