This is the first of 6 lists I've proposed making that will rank my favorite domestic 2-D animation series starting with what I'm calling Boy's Action Shows.  Girl can watch too but I don't think most of these are their cup of tea - but times are a changing so maybe I'm wroing.

As we face an uncertain jobs market, many of you are asking yourselves 'What does the future of animation hold for me?'  To see what lies ahead, one only need look to the past...

Every year I try to showcase Holiday Animation. This year, we begin with AN OLD BOX BY PAUL DRIESSEN FROM 1975.

Are you committing career suicide?  Setting yourself up for failure whether you intend to or not?  Stop sabotaging yourself and focus on how to help not hurt your career search efforts.

A shot from Idiots & Angels.

Yeah! Idiots and Angels was held over at the IFC by popular demand!

This is what I dreamed of. All those distributors who rejected “Idiots and Angels” now must realize that there is an audience for an adult animated film. People want to see mature and provocative ideas in cartoons.

Oktapodi's Emud Mokhberi, Robot Communications' Taki Tsuyoshi, Ron Diamond, Ed Catmull, Lavatory Lovestory's Konstantin Bronzit, Oktapodi's Olivier Delabarre, Oktapodi's Quentin Marmier, Gobelins' Eric Riewer, Oktapodi's Francois-Xavier Chanioux, and La Maison's Kunio Kato.

Every year Pixar host the Oscar nominees for Best Animated Short. It's always an exciting chance for the filmmakers to interact with the artists at the studio. Follow their day in pictures.

I recently witnessed a conversation where a young fine artist told a Flame artist to his face that he did not consider him an “artist.” Obviously things heated up.  As films employ hundreds of creative contributors, who among them do we really consider an “Artist?”

Old animation is not necessarily important becasue it is old.  There is a lot of bad old stuff just like there is a lot of bad new stuff.  It's always hard to put your finger directly on what makes one show a hit and another a miss but with classics we have the benefit of some perspective.  Did a show create a new style or popularize a treand or make use of technology never tried before?  Is the show still known and revered years after its run on television?  Have the characters become cultural icons or hae they become lost to all but a small group of devotees?  I've tried to look at all the old series while balancing these kind of questiions - as always this list only represents my opinions so read on if you're interested.

FUNimation

FUNimation Channel, the only 24/7 HD Anime Network, has added four more series to its line up: Oh! Edo Rocket, Corpse Princess, Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings, and Spice and Wolf.

Life on the road can be challenging! As the Studio headed into the its last week a familiar cadence ensued. It began with me awakening each morning at 5:30 am. Every production has a life of its own - sometimes you're in charge sometimes the film is in charge.