The cartoon blog of Andertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson. He discusses his cartoons, cartooning, comics and, oddly enough, LEGO.
I swear to God, if I hear “razzleberry dressing” once more I’m going to scream. Originally broadcast in 1962, Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol was the first animated holiday special made solely for TV. Jim Backus voices the UPA character as…
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New Yorker regular Jack Ziegler’s new collection of food cartoons, How’s the Squid?, is some tasty ink indeed. Like recent Cullum collections, Abrams publishes a lovely volume of 122 Ziegler offerings to satisfy any cartoon appetite. Take the man running…
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Lately I’ve been trying to really get into graphic novels and see what all the hub-bub is about. I’ve tried Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers, Watchmen, and even some Batman with Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns. All of…
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The sky was indeed falling. Like most Americans I remember September 11, 2001 with complete clarity. I had come into work early and was sitting at my computer planning my day. My supervisor arrived and while taking off his coat…
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Apparently Croatian animation company, Zagreb Film, has been busy over the past 40 years or so. According to the film’s opening they’ve “produced 600 animated films, winning more than 400 international awards” and coined a style known as “the Zagreb…
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