Borrow six minutes of dusty sadness from this tremendous short.
Movies
If the Lorax Puffs Trees in the Forest: An Investigation
A philosophical investigation. Dr. Seuss would be proud.
Poetic Injustice: DreamWorks Animators Exiled to the Swamps
This is awful.
Read or Watch Miyazaki Films. Or Both!
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 […]
Why Eliza Thornberry Was the Perfect Champion for a Greener Future
The Wild Thornberrys never questioned its heroine’s competence based on her sex, and that made its environmental message all the more powerful.
Wrestling With the Animated ‘Batman: The Killing Joke’
DC Comics and Warner Bros. Animation had every opportunity to make this film better — and they didn’t take any of them.
15 Things Brandon Vietti Learned Directing Batman, Young Justice, and Scooby-Doo: Exclusive
After almost two decades, working on the movies starring the heroes he grew up watching…is still pretty cool.
Inside Terry Gilliam’s Weird, Wonderful Contributions to Cartoons
On the Monty Python legend’s contributions to the world of animation.
What You’ll Learn in One Afternoon With Pixar
A jaunt in the Cooper Hewitt Museum.
Notes on ‘Belladonna of Sadness’
Viewer discretion HELLA advised.