Daily post &Fleischer 13 Oct 2006 09:16 am
Friday the 13th
– I’d like to remind you that Mike Dobbs is continuing to post his biography of the Fleischer brothers as it’s written. You can find this on his site, Made of Pen and Ink.
The former editor of Animato and Animation Planet posted his Introduction several weeks back and has just added Chapter One to the site.
Since there hasn’t been much done exclusively about this very prolific studio, it’ll be welcome. I have Out of the Inkwell, Richard Fleischer’s biography of his father, Max. I also have Leslie Carbaga’s fanzine of a book, The Fleischer Story.
Neither of these books is very critical, so it’ll be interesting to see how Mike Dobbs’ work will grow. With all the work he’s done over the years, it certainly should be the authoritative version. Check it out.
- Jenny Lerew, on her site Blackwing Diaries, has posted an excellent comment on women at the Disney studios. This is something of a theme she’s been developing, and it’s wonderful. I look forward to everything she has to say.
She uses this posting as a way of talking about the “See Jane/Union “Where The Girls Aren’t” panel which she’d attended. Events like this, as described by Jenny, make me momentarily sorry I don’t live in LA.
- If you haven’t found it yet, Tony White has set up the Animaticus Foundation and a new site to go with it. It’s apparently dedicated to 2D animation and is a good start with plenty to view and a promising forum on which to chat and leave comments. (Thanks to Dave Nethery for highlighting on his site.)
- Today, the NYTimes has a review of the exhibit, Master of American Comics, currently on view at the Jewish Museum in NY and the Newark Museum. A show worth visiting.
- Friday the 13th, and it’s appropriate for me to have received my weekly notice from Jason McDonald re the latest edition of his online comic strip, My Living Dead Girl.
This has to be the first retro-minimalist comic. Jason has always been a fabulous graphic artist, and he’s letting it all loose in this strip.
Unfortunately, you’ve missed quite a few episodes of the strip, but if you go back into his archives, you can catch up. He also has a number of other things to check out including merchandise for sale.
Jason has done quite a bit of art for my studio over the years; some of it appears on his main site, Jason McDonald Design (also worth checking out).
In the next week, I hope to highlight some of Jason’s work which he did for my studio.
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