MiDFur picks new name, ConFurgence; but did poll mislead?
Author: GreenReaper
MiDFur staff have chosen a new name, ConFurgence, after a month-long selection process – but pre-registration of the chosen domain name suggests a pick made prior to the final poll.
ConFurgence's Flash the Dingo as drawn by Kat A...
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Review: ‘Epic Mickey: The Power of Illusion’ for the Nintendo 3DS
Author: crossaffliction
This handheld spinoff of the Epic Mickey games features Mickey Mouse as Mario in an old-school side-scroller with cel-animation style visuals. What he’s doing in a 2D game with 2D visuals on a console with “3D” in its name ...
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Animation: ‘Chhota Bheem and the Throne of Bali’
Author: Fred
Animation Xpress #415, January 7, 2013, has the first trailer for Indian studio Green Gold Pictures’ second Chhota Bheem animated CGI children's feature, Chhota Bheem and the Throne of Bali, following the smash success (in India, in Hin...
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‘Pokémon X’ and ‘Y’ announced for the 3DS
Author: crossaffliction
Nintendo spokesmon Pikachu has announced the sixth generation of the popular Pokémon franchise: Pokémon X and Y. The pair of games will be released simultaneously worldwide for the first time ever in the franchise's history, ...
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Review: ‘Roar Vol. 4′ part 10
Author: Isiah Jacobs
Isiah offers his own thoughts and analysis on Roar as a part of a twelve-part review series.
See also: Reviews of Roar 4 by Roz Gibson and Fred Patten.
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Poster gallery: ‘Cartoon Funny Animals Won the War’
Author: Fred
Jerry Beck at the Cartoon Brew has posted this gallery of sixteen World War II-related funny animal comic book covers.
This goes nicely with my retrospective, “Talking Animals in World War II Propaganda”, published here last January 5th...
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Animation preview: ‘The Blue Umbrella’
Author: Fred
It’s only 34 seconds, but the WSJ (via Cartoon Brew) has a preview of The Blue Umbrella, Pixar’s CGI short film (directed by Saschka Unseld) that will accompany Monsters University on June 21st. It features two anthropomorphized umbrell...
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Review: ‘Wereworld: Rage of Lions’ and ‘Wereworld: Shadow of the Hawk’, by Curtis Jobling
Author: Fred
These are Books 2 and 3 in Jobling’s Wereworld saga. Book 1, Rise of the Wolf, was reviewed here last May. Viking has ignored my request for review copies, so I had to wait for the Glendale Public Library to get them. Sorry for...
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Three comic book reviews: Pull List #4 (‘Avengers Academy,’ ‘Avengers Assemble’ and ‘Hack/Slash’)
Author: crossaffliction
Well, one article after I set out the rules, I guess I’m going to break them; however, the issues in question were in the three month rule when I picked them up, and the front page doesn’t update if nothing gets submitted, so...
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Otherkin to feature in hour-long Logo ‘What?!’ documentary
Author: GreenReaper
As foreshadowed last year, Logo has bought distribution rights to an hour-long documentary on otherkin and therians from the UK's Zig Zag Productions (presumably no relation...):
The film promises to follow a teenager from Brunsw...
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Newsbytes archive for October–December 2012
Author: crossaffliction
I sure have been using the words “technical difficulties” a lot recently, but here is another series of articles delayed due to technical difficulties.
Newsbytes are provided by individual contributors, and are lightly edited...
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Animated anthropomorphic features in 2013
Author: Fred
The Cartoon Brew has a preview list of animated features due out in 2013; at least those announced so far – some with trailers.
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Opinion: The top ten movies of 2012
Author: crossaffliction
There are two kinds of movie reviewers; those that see the traditional end of year top ten list as a chore, and those like me who see it as a perk. Anyway, here’s ten movies from 2012 that I liked.
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Animation: ‘I Have Your Heart’
Author: Fred
The Cartoon Brew has posted a new animated music video, “I Have Your Heart”, about a forbidden romance between a human girl and an anthropomorphic cat-man lover.
The 4’25” video is apparently not produced by an animation studio, but by...
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Comic books: 365 new superheroes; some anthropomorphic
Author: Fred
Wired has an article and interview with Pixar artist Everett Downing, who made a New Year’s resolution to create a new superhero for each day of the new year. That was three years ago, but Downing currently has 285 new heroes and plans...
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