Gene Deitch shares his personal letters with E.B. "Andy" White regarding the production of Charlotte's Web, an experience White called, "one of my nightmares."

Why hasn't American animation followed suit? Fred Patten reviews the new Trigun Ultimate Fan Guide and wonders why U.S. series aren't similarly documented.

There are a lot of television toons coming to the big screen these days. Martin "Dr. Toon" Goodman takes a look at this growing phenomenon and all its good and bad points.

Maureen Furniss reviews five short films fresh from the festival circuit: Airship by Sam Yousefian, King Tangun by Jun Eun Lee, Nina Paley's The Stork, Drunky by Aaron Augenblick and Billy Greene's Thought Bubble. Includes QuickTime movie clips!

While many of us believe drawing is knowledge based, Jean Detheux explores how venturing beyond this "given" opens up an entire new realm of paradoxes, dilemmas and ultimately success.

As the school year comes to an end, Pamela Kleibrink Thompson reminds us that being a good employee is elementary in its simplicity! Just follow these easy guidelines.

Gene Deitch, who began his animation career at the UPA studio at its start in 1946, describes the UPA animators' enthusiasm for making "different" films from the established Hollywood cartoon formula.

Dr. Toon responds to his fans on a number of his most recent — and controversial — topics.

Jean Detheux returns to look at the path animation has strayed onto — a linear, non-experimental path — and discusses why and how we should try to bring it back onto the road leading to Art.

As the U.S. Copyright Term Extension Act approaches the Supreme Court, Dr. Toon discusses how it will impact toondom. Is corporate America protecting itself or robbing the public?

Justin Leach left the U.S. to experience animation production in Japan first hand. Taking a position at one of Japan's hottest studios he compares and contrasts two similar but very different worlds.

Gene Deitch recalls Ernie Pintoff and a character named Flebus from his Terrytoon days.

So you think selling a show is easy? Martin "Dr. Toon" Goodman goes behind the scenes of Atomic Cartoons to see how much work and time goes into getting a show off the ground.

John C. Donkin, Blue Sky's associate producer, reminisces on how the studio transformed itself from a small boutique into a major feature film contender.

Jean Detheux begins a series of articles that will explore animation as (commercial) entertainment and animation as an art form. In this first installment Jean discusses how we should approach "the real" as the unknown, and not take it for granted.

Martin "Dr. Toon" Goodman takes a look at the DVD as a source of animation history.

Martin "Dr. Toon" Goodman takes on LAAFs, or Live-Action Animated Features, with a vengeance. How come Hollywood insists on making these flops!?

You need a lot of luck to make it in the movie business, but how do you get lucky? Is success really just a matter of luck -- chance? Or can you lure luck your way? Gene Deitch gives us a few tips on tempting lady luck.

We were first with this, but it became our most ignominious and unnecessary failure. Please weep with me as you read this. I coulda bin a contendah...

Terrytoons. Here was my locale that most interests the animation historians. So now I finally have the chance to tell it like it really was. I name names -- all the names, and print the pix. I tell you what I did and what I tried to do -- a "renaissance" -- a total make over... and I tell you why it failed.