I’m not gonna lie: this is probably about the height of blog activity for this week and next. Because thus begins an insane schedule that includes weddings, an 8-hour professional exam, a trip to Lancaster, Pennsylvania and of course a full-time job to hold down at the same time.
However, November is currently shaping up quite nicely with a trip to the CTN Expo on the cards. Drop me a line if you’ll be there!
News just in – it’s an Irish ‘South Park’ for the post-pub crowd
Icehouse is an offshoot of Brown Bag Films and this is their first outing. Newsbag is about a group of ‘new media’ folks their exploits. The Irish Independent has all the details you need to know, but, this is something to keep an eye on because a) it’s something unique out of Ireland, and b) it’s being broadcast on terrestrial TV and not on the web. Let’s see where this goes.
Comic Book Legends Revealed #439
COMIC LEGEND: A Rugrats character was banned from the Rugrats comic strip because of complaints by the Jewish Anti-Defamation League.
STATUS: True
This article is quite informative.
How Danger Mouse became king of the TV ratings
Cosgrove Hall was a powerhouse of animation back in the 1980s, and Danger Mouse was their number one hit. The BBC has this great history of the famed studio.
Tell Me Something I Don’t Know 002: Faith Erin Hicks interview
This is actually from February 2013 but slipped my radar. It’s a very informative interview with uberly-talented cartoonist, Faith Erin Hicks. The podcast touches on a lot things related to animation including many of the challenges that Hicks herself faced as an animator in Canada. Well worth your time for a listen.
Can Artistic and Commercial Animation Coexist?
Yours truly wrote this guest post over on Animator Island.
Tweets of the Week
The biggest mistake I made when I started out was thinking that the animation business ran on a normal schedule.
— Samantha (@SamKallis) October 7, 2013
The world needs more SpongeBobs and less Peter Griffins.
— Jim Mortensen (@jimmortensen) October 8, 2013
You know someone thinks animation is a genre when they call it an "Animation Movie" instead of an "Animated Movie"
— Tyler Kupferer (@TylerKupferer) October 8, 2013
Outrage over "Frozen" pretty women comment is so Internet. Now people say "women don't have to be pretty in movies"… (1/2)
— Jean-Denis Haas (@jeandenishaas) October 9, 2013
… yet when "Croods" came out people were complaining how ugly the female lead was. Can't have it all folks. (2/2)
— Jean-Denis Haas (@jeandenishaas) October 9, 2013
@jenbendraws @TNPerkins4 You are trying to serve steak to babies that can only handle similac
— Giancarlo Volpe – BIack Lives Matter!! (@Giancarlo_Volpe) October 9, 2013
https://twitter.com/Nathan3DWilkes/status/388301693365927936
I love the 'recently added family freindly animated cartoons with strong female leads that are popular on Facebook' section on Netflix
— Damien O'Connor (@ratskins) October 10, 2013
People of my age watch BreakingBad, Games of Thrones and etc. But I enjoy watching PeppaPig so much! Is everything fine with me?
— Evgenia Golubeva (@janeneverwood) October 11, 2013
I hope later on with animated features, 2D won't be that you'll only see in the credits
— Sandra D Rivas (@SandraDRivas) October 11, 2013
https://twitter.com/JasonHirschhorn/status/389062776074670080
Saw "Frozen," liked it a lot, but Disney, those giant eyes make your female characters look like space aliens.
— (((The Other David Cohen))) (@David_S_Cohen) October 13, 2013