Lunch Links: CREATURE COMFORTS
Aardman’s masterful run of animated shorts arguably begins here. The British studio has been around…
Year of the Month: Krazy Kat in THE HOT CHA MELODY
You probably know George Herriman’s Krazy Kat: the newspaper comic strip that forward-thinking critic Gilbert…
From Live Action Short to Cartoon Violence
It’s popular to refer to certain movies as “live action cartoons.” Doubtless when Mousetrap, for…
Year of the Month: RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY: A MUSICAL ADVENTURE
The ‘70s and ‘80s are often called a “dark age” for animation. That’s true in…
Life Before STAR WARS: Aliens, Apes, and Animated Weirdoes
Before Star Wars proved they could be big business, sci-fi and fantasy were the province…
ZOMBIE LAND SAGA: An Intersectional Femivision Article by Haley Ioppini
Like most people, I have a complicated relationship with idol singers. We’ve heard every argument…
Year of the Month: BART ON THE ROAD
This episode is one of those episodes that people don’t often remember, but when they…
Year of the Month: The Bittersweet Beauty of A Charlie Brown Christmas
It’s one of the moldiest old clichés in holiday movies to describe such and such…
Year of the Month: The Incredible Craft of Disney Shorts
When I was just a little guy in Burgundy Jammies, I watched all the Disney…
Year of the Month: LOONEY TUNES
It’s almost as cliché to point out that history doesn’t divide itself neatly by decade…