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October 23rd, 2022

Members Update: Live Stream Scheduled For Oct 23rd!

Animation Resources Live Streaming Project

Animation Resources is hosting regularly scheduled events LIVE on its Streaming Page. Join us every month to find out what’s happening at Animation Resources.

THIS MONTH’S PROGRAM

STUDENT DRIVE / REFPACK049

On The Animation Resources Live Stream Page
(Also Facebook and YouTube)
SUNDAY, OCT 23rd, 2022 5:00 pm (PDT)
HOSTED BY DAVEY JARELL & DAVID EISMAN

Our schedule of monthly live streamed programs under the banner Members Update launches Sunday, October 23rd!

It’s time for another live stream to catch up on the latest Animation Resources reference pack, which is chock full of more rare educational content than any reference pack to date. It features an e-book on the Irv Spector’s “Coogy”, a pair of Cinemascope cartoons, an assortment of international cartoons, frame by frame breakdowns illustrating the principle of resistance, and a couple of Mack Sennett slapstick shorts. There’s also an update to the Annual Member Bonus Archive: A book on the sports cartoons of Willard Mullin, some rare Lotte Reiniger color films and some Terry-Toons in widescreen! We’ll be screening some surprises too!

Join Animation Resources Director of Programming Davey Jarrell and Director of Publications David Eisman in our latest Members Update live stream on Sunday, October 23rd at 5:00pm (PDT).

ABOUT YOUR HOSTS

Davey Jarell is a member of the Board of Directors of Animation Resources. He is a professional storyboard artist for television and acts as our Director of Programs.

David Eisman is an Animatic Editor who serves as the Director of Podcasting Events on the Board of Directors of Animation Resources.

ABOUT LIVE STREAMING

Animation Resources proudly presents its Live Streaming Project. Over the coming months, we will be presenting live chats, interviews, screenings and seminars. These programs will be open to the public on the date and time indicated. They will not be publicly archived. Archives of the programs will only be available to the members of Animation Resources on the Members Only page. If you miss the program, you’ve missed it, so set your calendar and join us at one of our live stream locations…

Animation Resources Live Stream Page (Primary Stream)
Also Facebook & YouTube

Animation Resources is one of the best kept secrets in the world of cartooning. Every month, we sponsor a program of interest to artists, and every other month, we share a book and up to an hour of rare animation with our members. If you are a creative person interested in the fields of animation, cartooning or illustration, you should be a member of Animation Resources!

It’s easy to join Animation Resources. Just click on this link and you can sign up right now online…

JOIN TODAY!
https://animationresources.org/membership/levels/

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Posted by Stephen Worth @ 3:50 pm

October 20th, 2022

Illustration: Milton Caniff and Norman Rockwell in Coronet

Milton Caniff Terry and the Pirates Steve Canyon

The Milton Caniff Estate recently loaned Animation Resources copies of two issues of Coronet magazine from 1942 and 1947 to digitize. Here are three articles of interest to cartoonists and illustrators…

AMERICA’S PIONEER JAP FIGHTER
By Howard Whitman

NORMAN ROCKWELL: The People’s Painter
By Jack H. Pollack

CONFESSIONS OF A COMIC STRIP ARTIST
By Milton Caniff

Thanks to John Ellis and the estate of Milton Caniff for sharing this with us!

STEVE CANYON TV SHOW

The Steve Canyon Special Edition DVD is out now! To order it and for more info on the Steve Canyon TV show, see… www.stevecanyondvd.blogspot.com

STEVE CANYON AT AMAZON

Fantagraphics has a great book on Caniff’s career, and Checker has released year by year reprints of the classic Steve Canyon strip. Caniff was a master storyteller, and the first few years of Steve Canyon are examples of his genius at the height of its powers. Click on the pictures for more info.

Stephen Worth
Director
Animation Resources

This posting is part of a series of articles comprising an online exhibit spotlighting Illustration.

This posting is part of the online Encyclopedia of Cartooning under the subject heading, Newspaper Comics.

Labeled: comic strips, coronet, illustration, magazine, Milton Caniff, norman rockwell, steve canyon, terry and the pirates |

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Posted by admin @ 12:14 pm

October 19th, 2022

Illustration: Bozo And His Rocket Ship

In 1946, a young producer at Capitol Records, Alan Livingston was assigned the task of developing a children’s line for the fledgling record company. He came up with the idea of a read-along record and book set featuring a circus clown named Bozo. The album, Bozo At The Circus sold over a million copies, and helped to push Capitol to the top of the sales charts.

Pinto Colvig As Bozo Livingston went on to create read-along sets featuring DIsney, Lantz and Warner Bros characters, but the most successful line was the Bozo series. Voiced by Disney story and voice man, Pinto Colvig with music by Billy May, Livingston wrote and produced Bozo On The Farm, Bozo And The Birds, Bozo Under The Sea, and this one… Bozo And His Rocket Ship. All of the sets were re-released in the LP era, but this one was heavily edited, for obvious reasons. In this album, Bozo makes a survey of just about every ethnic stereotype imaginable. But that isn’t the reason we’re presenting it here. We’re featuring the wonderful work of the illustrators, Norm McCabe and Cecil Beard.

Bozo at the Circus McCabe was an animator at Warner Bros in the 30s and directed in the early 40s. After the war, he turned to commercial work and illustration. He returned to cartoon animation in the mid-1960s, animating the titles to The Pink Panther. He continued to work in the business until his death in 2006. Cecil Beard was an animator and story man at Disney and Columbia. He worked on the Fox & the Crow comic books with Jim Davis in the late 40s, and as an illustrator for Western Publishing in the 1960s. He passed away in 1986.

The most striking thing about these images are the compositions. Notice how the white of the page is used and how small windows in the backgrounds open onto other environments. There’s some really clever use of perspective and depth cues here. Enjoy!