The Celery Stalks At Midnight

 

Watch Tim Burton's earliest animated short film "Stalk of the Celery Monster"

 

Aesop Rocks

 

Animation is for perverts.

 Do the right thing, Bob.

Still Sixty After All These Years

 

Only Disney Weirdness has what the people have been clamoring for, Yakov Smirnoff's thoughts about Mickey Mouse.

Minnie only gets one page, because of the patriarchy.

Hey, it's Roman Arambula! and Mark Henn, Glen Keane, and Frank Thomas!  Glimpses of the artistic talent behind Disney productions were gold to me as a kid.  I was the type of kid whose parents had to drag him out of the Animation Building at Disney-MGM studios.

Aliens did it.

Annette!  Dolly!!

Other, lesser 1980s celebrities:

Learning The Ropes

 

The Ropes At Disney's

The Mousification of America

Here is a rare example of a Twitter thread worth reading.

by Bob Flynn

How Disney is perfecting animated eyeballs.

Infinitely Secret Crossover Crisis

Comicon News:  Marvel Superheroes to meet Phineas and Ferb.

Photo via Wired



Super Fan

Disney animators love Superman just as much as you do, Fanboy.

 Via Topless Robot

Strike!

Jim Hill Media has a great piece on Mickey and the Beanstalk, which references the Disney Strike of 1941.   If you're interested in the behind-the-scenes of Disney animation both articles are definitely worth your time.  Regardless of your thoughts on unions, it's a fascinating chapter in animation history.

Related:  Disney World to enter mediation with union

Circles and Rubber Hoses

Where would animation be without Bill Nolan?

Plus: John K analyzes Floyd Gottfredson's use of the rubber hose style.

Burn Baby Burn

Disney's Inferno by Floyd Norman

From Sekvenskonst

Best Souvenir Ever

As a kid, my favorite attraction at Disney-MGM was the Animation Studio. I would have stayed there all day, peering through the glass and gawking at the animators, if only my parents had let me. You could guess how disappointed I was when my wife and I went to Disney World in 05, only to discover that the animators were all gone, and the attraction had been changed to The Magic of Disney Animation.

Instead of watching artists hard at work creating the latest Disney masterpiece, now you get to watch a movie with the dragon from Mulan.

There was one cool thing about the attraction, though; the "Animation Academy" section, where a Disney artist teaches you how to draw a character. When we went, the character was Minnie. Here's my attempt:

It's unfinished, obviously, because you only get like ten minutes with the guy. It was fun, though, and for a minute it brought me back to my childhood dream of being a Real Disney Animator. So yeah, The Magic of Disney Animation. Not as great as I remembered, but I got to draw a Minnie.

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Interview with Disney producer Don Hahn about his documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty and the Disney "animation wars" of the 80's and 90's.

Disney Girls (1937)

Disney's Ink and Paint Girls of the 1940's are profiled in Vanity Fair.

Via Cartoon Brew