3 Animators That Will Explode Your Brain
You work hard. You show kindness. You pay your taxes. You just remembered you have to pay your taxes. You deserve to meet three animators that will explode your brain. There are no fluffy...
Tagged: animation
Spring 2015 Cartoon Preview
This article first appeared as a “Chick on the Draw” column in Luna Station Quarterly, March 6, 2015. This year’s animated lineup is out of control. There is no controlling it. Don’t try. You...
Drawn in Drag: Examining Male Voice Actors Cast in Female Roles
This article first appeared October 3, 2014 in my Chick on the Draw column at Luna Station Quarterly. Sometimes animation is sort of like SNL in the early 90s–it assumes men dressed as women...
5 Best Current Animated Series That Pass the Mako Mori Test
This article first appeared in Luna Station Quarterly’s Chick on the Draw column on August 1, 2014. Maybe you’re out of the cartoon loop. Maybe you don’t have cable TV. Maybe you’re a former...
4 Reasons Why Cartoons Matter
This article first appeared in Luna Station Quarterly’s Chick on the Draw column on July 4, 2014. It’s a pleasure to join Luna Station Quarterly’s new content lineup. I’ll be your friendly neighborhood animation...
5 Beefs with How to Train Your Dragon 2
What oh my God what. Let’s be clear. The original How to Train Your Dragon (2010) is excellent, structurally and emotionally. Both it and its sequel are gorgeous, imaginative, and animated by some of...
Another Defense of Frozen: The Subversive Appeal of Disney’s New Breed of Fairy Tale
I dug Frozen. I laughed. I cried. I gasped at the third act reveal. In the wake of Dani Colman’s essay for Medium asserting the film has a problem with false feminism, I feel...
In Defense of Frozen
(You may also enjoy Another Defense of Frozen: The Subversive Appeal of Disney’s New Breed of Fairy Tale.) Disney’s animated feature Frozen, which opens Thanksgiving, has received some attention for 1) its nearly indistinguishable...
