by | June 8, 2010 · 4:32 pm

Just Gross

There was a lot of talk about Milt Gross press not too long ago with the release of Craig Yoe’s The Complete[sic] Milt Gross. I didn’t pay much attention because I’m not the biggest fan of Gross. His writing is leagues ahead of his comic contemporaries, but the art makes me feel claustrophobic if I look at it too long.

All the talk though reminded me that Gross designed the titles for Roxie Hart, Fox’s tacky 1942 remake of Chicago with Ginger Rogers, and that I actually had a copy of the movie. So here are those titles for your enjoyment. Gross was an inspired choice to do them because he sums up the tone of the film nicely.

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by | May 18, 2010 · 2:52 pm

Why?

Haven’t had time to screw around with a website for some time now and still really don’t. I promise to post something cool soon. I just wanted to pop out of the woodwork to say how I find it surprising that none of the animation websites I regularly read covered the announcement that Brad Bird is directing Mission: Impossible IV for Paramount. You’d think that the fact that America’s leading animated feature director is moving to live-action franchises, and that it’s confirmed, without a doubt, that Pixar will never make a movie worth watching again, would be headline news and serve as fodder for the discussion of whether or not it’s impossible for a director with real ambition to be a success in mainstream animation. Oh well.

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by | April 26, 2010 · 10:46 pm

Tyer’s Greatest Triumph Returns

Someone uploaded a letter-boxed Cinemascope copy of Sick Sick Sidney, so not only can you see all that beautiful Jim Tyer animation proper (or at least as proper as 30 dpi will allow), but you can now hear Sidney’s neurotic theme song at the beginning too.

I’ll take this over that other Deitch animated [sic] cartoon everyone was fawning over at Cartoon Brew recently. Hell, I’d take Dicky Moe over that.

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by | April 14, 2010 · 12:11 am

Don Martin

This has been going on for awhile, so it isn’t really news, but Barnes & Noble has taken a temporary leave of sanity and is blowing out the The Completely MAD Don Martin at $22.48. This is not a joke… None of this “members only” business either… I know because this deal is how I got mine. Additionally, it’s available at a special “Buy 2, Get 3rd Free” deal, so you can take care of all your holiday shopping done at once.

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