The Home For Orphan Toons

orphan toon: n. an animated film forgotten by time, either through censorship or simple neglect

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

RIP Joe Barbera (1911-2006)

I should know better than to nap in the middle of the day. I usually wake up feeling like Rip Van Winkle. I keep odd hours, often writing or...

Friday, December 15, 2006

"Don't Eat At Joe's": JERKY TURKEY (1945)

The original content has been edited for inexcusably moronic typos--R.) This little stream-of-consciousness essay developed out of a desire ...

Monday, December 11, 2006

Blog, Interrupted

Unknown to most people on my side of the pond, the BBC started regular television broadcasts in November of 1936 from the Alexandra Palace i...

Monday, November 20, 2006

It's Looney Tunes Golden Collection IV Week: A Taste Of SOUTHERN FRIED RABBIT (1953)

I love you, Netflix. To those of you wondering "Where the heck is Bosko already?" Well...there are extenuating circunstances, you ...

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

A Kevin Wollenweber "Two-Fer"

"Kid Stuff?" While we're on the track of Seussian stories and children's versus adult animation, perhaps you remember the ...

Monday, November 13, 2006

Silly Executives, Cartoons Ain't For Kids: Or How Mr. Magoo Ended Up In the Kids' Library

Like most people of my generation, I have fond memories of Saturday morning. I literally grew up with the Saturday morning cartoon; its arri...

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Rachel Newstead: Appleton, Wisconsin, United States; I'm a former magazine cartoonist, onetime cartooning instructor, and amateur ragtime composer in Houdini's adopted "home town."

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