A roundup of our 25 favorite pieces about cartoons published during the past year by outlets not called ‘The Dot and Line.’
Tag: movies
Andrea Romano on Retiring and 30 Years’ Hard Work: Exclusive
This is how Andrea’s loony, toony road will end. The grand dame of the last 30 years of American voice acting plans to retire. No one wants to see her go.
Mickey, Mouse of Our Hearts, Whistles His Way to 88
Celebrate by watching ‘Steamboat Willie’ again.
‘Borrowed Time’ Will Leave You Inconsolable
Borrow six minutes of dusty sadness from this tremendous short.
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 […]
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.
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.