John Canemaker Wins Emmy Award for "The Moon and the Son

Independent animator John Canemaker has won a News and Documentary Emmy Award in the "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Graphic & Artistic Design" category for his film The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation. The film also won the 2005 Oscar for the Best Animated Short Film.

Los Angeles Animation Festival Debuts on Oct 21-22, 2007

Los Angeles will get its first animation festival in five years when the Los Angeles Animation Festival comes to town on October 21-22, 2007. The festival will be held at the renovated art deco Silent Movie Theatre at 611 N. Fairfax Ave. Screenings, premieres, parties, career workshops, and guest speakers will run throughout the festival.For full festival details, visit the official festival website at http://www.laafest.org/

New Spiderman Toon Gets More Episodes

Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has ordered an additional 13 episodes to the Spiderman series premiering in 2008.


The Spectacular Spider-Man animated series will now have a run of 26 episodes after Marvel and SPT gave the greenlight for 13 more episodes. The show will premiere in 2008 on the Kids' WB Saturday morning block on the CW network. Greg Weisman (Gargoyles, The Batman) is the supervising producer, along with Victor Cook (Hellboy: Blood and Iron and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command), who serves as producer/supervising director.“The launch of the new Spider-Man animated series is part of an aggressive strategy to continue to meet fans’ nearly insatiable demand for our world renowned webslinger,” said Eric Rollman for Spider-Man Merchandising, L.P. “The expanded commitment to the animated series will enable us to really support this exciting new Spider-Man iteration with a multi-tiered consumer products and promotional program that will bring potential licensees and retail partners a fresh and exciting new way to bring this ever-popular superhero into the marketplace.”

List Cartoonists in animation

• Tex Avery
  
• Art Babbitt
  
• Frédéric Back
  
• Ralph Bakshi
  
• Joseph Barbera
  
• Don Bluth
  
• Tim Burton
  
• Bob Clampett
  
• Les Clark
  
• Gabor Csupo
  
• Shamus Culhane
  
• Arthur Davis
  
• Marc Davis
  
• Gene Deitch
  
• Andreas Deja
  
• Walter Lantz
  
• Walt Disney
  
• Ed Emshwiller
  
• Norm Ferguson
  
• Friz Freleng
  
• Eric Goldberg
  
• Dave Hand
  
• William Hanna
  
• Rudolf Ising
  
• Wilfred Jackson
  
• Ollie Johnston
  
• Chuck Jones
  
• Milt Kahl
  
• Glen Keane
  
• Ward Kimball
  
• John Kricfalusi
  
• Kutty
  
• Eric Larson
  
• John Lasseter
  
• John Lounsbery
  
• Ham Luske
  
• Winsor McCay
  
• Robert McKimson
  
• Fred Moore
  
• Joe Murray
  
• Grim Natwick
  
• Bill Plympton
  
• Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman
  
• Herbert "Herbie" Ryman
  
• Ben Sharpsteen
  
• Tom Sito
  
• Frank Tashlin
  
• Richard Taylor Green Springs Cartoons
  
• Frank Thomas
  
• Bill Tytla
  
• Richard Williams
  
• Mark O'Hare

List Cartoonists of comic books

• Sergio Aragones, Mad, also the creator of Groo
  
• Ben Caldwell, famous creator of the Dare Detectives.
  
• Dan DeCarlo, Archie, Josie and the Pussycats Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
  
• Kim Deitch creator of Waldo The Cat and comic novels
  
• Will Elder, Mad, Little Annie Fanny in Playboy
  
• Steve Fiorilla, mini-comics
  
• Brad W. Foster, "The Mechthings", "Adventures of Olivia",mini-comics
  
• Vernon Grant, creator of The Love Rangers
  
• Marc Hansen, creator of Ralph Snart
  
• Al Jaffee, Mad, Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions.
  
• Harvey Kurtzman, first editor of Mad, one of the most influential comic artists of all time
  
• Pran Kumar Sharma, Chacha Chaudhary
  
• Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee!, I Feel Sick, Everything can be Beaten, Fillerbunny, Bad art Collection, Happy Noodle Boy
  
• Wally Wood, Mad, both comic book and magazine
  
• Vince Deporter, DC Comics; Nickelodeon, Spirou (Belgium)

cartunista of the month:Bill Browning

William D. Browning received a bachelor's in environmental design from the University of Colorado, specializing in energy-conscious architecture and resource management. He has a masters of science in real estate development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the MIT Center for Real Estate's 1991 Public-Sector Fellowship, and, in 1995, the Charles H. Spaulding Award. He has been involved in the design of a number of projects, including advanced multi-story solar greenhouses using Buckminster Fuller's last structural system, and an American Institute of Architects sponsored joint Soviet/American team for an award-winning youth exchange camp in the Republic of Georgia.

In 1991, Browning founded Rocky Mountain Institute's Green Development Services; a program that researches and provides consulting on environmentally responsive real estate development. His consulting projects include new towns, resorts, building renovations, a bug zoo, Wal-Mart's Eco-mart, the White House, the Grand Canyon National Park, Lucasfilm's Letterman Digital Center, and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Village. He has worked on a number of US Department of Defense facilities including; the Pentagon Renovation, the Navy Yard, the Air Force Academy, and the Pacific Air Force Headquarters. Browning has given numerous lectures and workshops for such organizations as the American Institute of Architects, CERES, the Councilors of Real Estate, the Urban Land Institute, the International Facilities Managers Association, MIT, Harvard's Graduate School of Design, Peking University, and Yestermorrow Design Build School.

He is a co-author of Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate, published by John Wiley & Sons, and a companion CD ROM, Green Developments. Browning has also co-authored A Primer on Sustainable Building, a textbook; and Greening the Building and the Bottom Line, a study of increased worker productivity in energy-efficient buildings. He has published articles in Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, Building Operating Management, Urban Land, and AIA's Environmental Resource Guide. He has appeared on CNN, NPR, PBS's Future Quest, and AIA's Building Connections teleconference series. He was interviewed for articles in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, House Beautiful, Popular Science, and Elle, among others.

In 1998 he was featured in the cover story for the October issue of Interiors & Sources, and was named one of five people "Making a Difference" by Buildings magazine. Green Development Services was awarded the 1999 President's Council for Sustainable Development/Renew America Prize. In 2001 he was selected as an Honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, and in 2002 he served on the national steering group for the AIA Committee on the Environment.

In 2006, Bill Browning partnered with Bob Fox and Rick Cook to found Terrapin, a firm dedicated to creating high-performance sustainability strategies for governments, corporations, and large-scale developments.