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Author: Charlotte Dow

Charlotte Dow is a New York-based writer. She can usually be found yelling about the Disney Renaissance to quasi-strangers at parties. She blogs at A Suitcase Full of Pens and tweets at @charlotteatepie.
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Why Fans of ‘Frozen’ Should Check Out ‘White Snake’

July 29, 2019August 25, 2019 Charlotte DowComments Off on Why Fans of ‘Frozen’ Should Check Out ‘White Snake’

But the source material for the film, which premiered at Fantastia 2019, happens to predate the Disney blockbuster’s by roughly two centuries.

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An Urgent Question About ‘FernGully’

July 2, 2019March 21, 2020 Charlotte DowComments Off on An Urgent Question About ‘FernGully’

IS IT STILL GOOD!?

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Princess Carolyn Has Been a Textbook Codependent All Along

September 14, 2018May 8, 2019 Charlotte DowComments Off on Princess Carolyn Has Been a Textbook Codependent All Along

No, she’s not just a really good manager.

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The Kids From ‘We’re Back’ Are Now on OkCupid

August 24, 2018May 8, 2019 Charlotte DowComments Off on The Kids From ‘We’re Back’ Are Now on OkCupid

Twenty-five years after their dinosaur adventure, Louie and Cecilia are looking for love just like the rest of us.

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How a Cartoon Corgi Hooked Me on ‘Cowboy Bebop’

April 3, 2018May 9, 2019 Charlotte DowComments Off on How a Cartoon Corgi Hooked Me on ‘Cowboy Bebop’

“Stray Dog Strut” is for all you dog-lovers out there.

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For the Last Time, Anastasia Is Not a Disney Film

November 14, 2017March 13, 2020 Charlotte DowComments Off on For the Last Time, Anastasia Is Not a Disney Film

I’ve defended the Don Bluth classic’s spot outside of the House of Mouse for 20 years—and I’m still doing it.

EDITORS PICKS

Why ‘The Dragon Prince’ Understands Sibling Love

By John Maher

Sometimes, it means trusting siblings to handle themselves while you do your duty. Others, it means sacrificing everything.

It’s a Trump Presidency, Huey Freeman

By John Maher

The words I return to today in a world in which hate is winning.

There Is No Such Thing As Equivalent Exchange

By Maya Gittelman

One is all, all is one, and in life and love, one thing for another is a mug’s game.

Read or Watch Miyazaki Films. Or Both!

By John Maher

As someone who writes about books by day and about cartoons by all the rest of the times, very little makes me happier than to read something about both. Well, here’s the good news! Literary Hub published just such a something today with Gabrielle Bellot’s “The Magic of Hayao Miyazaki’s Literary Imagination,” and it turned […]

Twenty Years Later, ‘Princess Mononoke’ Is More Eerily Relevant Than Ever

By Rebecca Long

The year that marked the Miyazaki classic's two-decade anniversary was rife with oil spills and California fires. Can the movie's lessons save us from ourselves?

A Murder Most Awesome: The 5 Best Brock Samson Kills

By Alex Costello

Rating the top five kills of the Venture family’s mullet-headed murder machine, Brock Samson.

A Poem For Rose Quartz, Wherever I May Find Her

By John Maher

Here's one for a mother lost.

Spongebob’s First Episode Crammed in a GIF Is Some Weird-Ass Shit

By Eric Vilas-Boas

I don’t really know how to handle this.

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