Cartoons and Animation

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For Sale: A Tex Avery Original Drawing Dating Back to Animator's Days at North Dallas High

Click to embiggen this Tex Avery original dating back to the North Dallas High School hallways.​Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directs our attention to Cartoon Brew, which sends us to the Howard Lowery auction site -- where you'll find the drawing you see above, made in the mid-1920s at North Dallas ... More >>

Fun, Animated

Click to embiggen this Tex Avery original dating back to the North Dallas High School hallways.​Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directs our attention to Cartoon Brew, which sends us to the Howard Lowery auction site -- where you'll find the drawing you see above, made in the mid-1920s at North Dallas ... More >>

10 Awesome Indie Music Videos Starring No Humans

Ok! You can officially ignore MTV. Aside from vintage Pizza Hut commercials, YouTube has become the newest, best, most badass way to show off one of two things: your music with lyrics set in scrolling Comic Sans or your music under some cool, never-before-seen animator / puppeteer's work. Back i ... More >>

Are Mexicans God's New Chosen People, and Can We Get Him To Choose Someone Else?

Ok! You can officially ignore MTV. Aside from vintage Pizza Hut commercials, YouTube has become the newest, best, most badass way to show off one of two things: your music with lyrics set in scrolling Comic Sans or your music under some cool, never-before-seen animator / puppeteer's work. Back i ... More >>

Propane and Propane Mentalities

Ok! You can officially ignore MTV. Aside from vintage Pizza Hut commercials, YouTube has become the newest, best, most badass way to show off one of two things: your music with lyrics set in scrolling Comic Sans or your music under some cool, never-before-seen animator / puppeteer's work. Back i ... More >>

If He Whispers, They Will Learn

Ok! You can officially ignore MTV. Aside from vintage Pizza Hut commercials, YouTube has become the newest, best, most badass way to show off one of two things: your music with lyrics set in scrolling Comic Sans or your music under some cool, never-before-seen animator / puppeteer's work. Back i ... More >>

Walt & El Grupo

Ok! You can officially ignore MTV. Aside from vintage Pizza Hut commercials, YouTube has become the newest, best, most badass way to show off one of two things: your music with lyrics set in scrolling Comic Sans or your music under some cool, never-before-seen animator / puppeteer's work. Back i ... More >>

AFI Dallas Honors Henry Selick, Father of Jack Skellington and Monkeybone

Patrick MichelsIn more than three decades as an animator, Henry Selick has lived not only at the edge of the film industry, but as a stop-motion animator, even the fringes of animation world. From The Nightmare Before Christmas to Coraline, though, audiences have gladly followed him out to the edge. ... More >>

Weird Science

Patrick MichelsIn more than three decades as an animator, Henry Selick has lived not only at the edge of the film industry, but as a stop-motion animator, even the fringes of animation world. From The Nightmare Before Christmas to Coraline, though, audiences have gladly followed him out to the edge. ... More >>

Probably The First And Last Time Brave Combo Will Ever Face Off With Sith Lords

More proof that Brave Combo's nothing to polk fun at (sorry): The band has been nominated for an "Annie" award, which claims to be the highest honor in animation, for the use of its "William Tell Overture" take as the theme for the PBS animated series As The Wrench Turns. In the "Music in an A ... More >>

Chocoholic

See Dahl's classic in Fort Worth

Gordon Bellamy, Dallas-Born Film Animator, Died Tuesday at 70

See Dahl's classic in Fort Worth

Touch of Evel

See Dahl's classic in Fort Worth

It Doesn't Suck!

Breathe easy, Simpsons fans. The movie is eeeexellent.

Two Local Kids Make the Cartoon Network By Actually Getting Off the Couch

Breathe easy, Simpsons fans. The movie is eeeexellent.

Junk Food

ATHFCMFFT is 87 minutes of pure art, with fries

Fully Animated

Mike Judge amps up the 'toons

Peanut Butter Wolf Presents Stones Throw Ten Years

(Stones Throw)

Crunk Dunks

Everybody loves the Globetrotters

Tunes' Tunes

Bugs goes symphonic

Down to Size

Boy turns bug in redemptive kiddie-lit adaptation

Ant Invasion

Boy turns bug in redemptive kiddie-lit adaptation

Unreal Estate

Cartoon kids poke around Spielberg's Monster House

Dangerdoom

The Mouse and the Mask (Epitaph)

Say Cheese

Wallace & Gromit make their long-overdue feature debut

Food Groups

Get your daily serving with VeggieTales Rockin' Tour LIVE

MC Chris

Saturday, February 5

Hang on, Snoopy

Good grief! Happiness is Charlie Brown at Theatre Three; Patsy Cline and Magi are magical, too.

First Fest

Celebrate Dallas via all of the Americas

Media Darling

Glass scores with a film fave

Geek Out

R.I.P. Robot Monster Weekend, 2001-2003

Kicking Lasses

The Powerpuff Girls spank monkey butt aplenty

Bad Dog

Scooby-Doo is a mutt with more drool than bite

Unreal Genius

The computer-generated Jimmy Neutron should be a blast for kids

Scene, Heard

A few more area musicians make appearances on the Cartoon Network

Hare Yesterday, Gone Today

When is a rabbit most like a chicken?

Bless the Blockhead

How A Charlie Brown Christmas almost wasn't, then became a tradition

Out There

The Power Puff Girls

International incident

Dragonball Z is the Cartoon Network's top-rated show, thanks to a Fort Worth-based company that's unleashing a controversial American version of this Japanese hit

IMAX; you, Mickey

Walt Disney's toon-not-for-tots, Fantasia returns

Quick, draw

After years of talking and hoping, DNA Productions finally inks a big-time deal

Snoopy dogged

A Charlie Brown Christmas doesn't come without its (good) grief

'Toon Man

Robert Smigel is the hottest animator you've never heard of

Building the perfect beast

Phil Tippett and his studio--creators of Starship Troopers' murderous bugs--are envisioning the digital future of creature features

Out There

Phil Tippett and his studio--creators of Starship Troopers' murderous bugs--are envisioning the digital future of creature features

Treasure trove

Toy Story beats the Disney 'classics' with sheer manic invention

Saturday hangover

The Toadies, the Daisy, and the Rev join tribute to Cartoons' Greatest Hits

Chuck amuck

The DMA celebrates Chuck Jones, animation's beloved toonsmith

Loony tunes

The twisted minds at DNA Animation take their sick humor national