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Work Is Heck
But the Ramapith blog isn't gone for good. There's lots to come—after I meet just a couple more deadlines. Patience, readers. Prudence, too. And Purviance, if you're lucky.(Flip the Frog drawing from...
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On With the Show (Thanks, Toby)
With the dog days of summer having passed Chihuahua and moved on to Rottweiler, my work schedule is getting a little less hectic—and some comics projects due out in the winter are finally being put to...
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Rare Fleischer Talkartoon Found (A Shameless Plug)
Every major cartoon studio has rare and lost films to its name. Nitrate deteriorates; 16mm gets vinegar syndrome. "Duplicate" prints are cast away without careful inspection of the "master" element....
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Lucky New Oswald Finds
As one of my favorite research topics, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is also the subject that my longtime friends expect me to blog about most. So I generally try to keep it to a minimum—because who wants to...
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Fantastic Felix Friday! Watch this space...
Big, big doings here on Ramapith later today; fans of Otto Messmer, Joe Oriolo, and Jim Tyer have been warned (and that goes for fans of Inky, Winky, and highly suspect magic carpets and bags, too).In...
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Fantastic Felix Friday: Behind the Scenes
Rowr! It's been awhile since Felix the Cat prowled Ramapith's ivy-covered halls. But the feisty feline always comes back. This week I'm honored to help promote him in a new project for which I was a...
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Mystical Felix Monday: There's More?
Hey, who said it was over? At the time our Fantastic Felix Friday celebration finished up last week, an e-mail snafu had unknowingly kept me from receiving Don Oriolo's replies for two extra Felix the...
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Lost Laugh-O-Grams Found—And Shown
"Alice isn't Alice." Those three words recently marked the start of an exciting series of discoveries for me and others. But what could they mean?Like a lot of cartoon researchers, I've long been...
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I Taut I Taw New Posts Coming
"You bet you sthaw new posthts coming!" Er—thanks, Sylvester. As my close friends are well aware, I've been up to my eyeballs in work lately—but that's not to say it hasn't been a lot of fun. I've been...
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2011: One Last Look Back
Happy New Year, everyone. I thought I'd take a (belated) look back at a fond acquaintance whom we lost a couple of months ago.With his incredible output, writer and researcher Earl Kress made a...
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Notswald: A Ramapith Public Service
How did you try to impress your childhood friends?My best buddy in third grade was a cartoon fan, like me. We drooled over unaffordable cartoon collectibles that sat, just out of reach, at somber local...
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Cele-bray-ting Historic Silents
If my friends were asked to name my favorite cartoon stars, various high-pitched, black-furred animals might come to mind. But I'm also fascinated by a group of earlier, cruder, yet still endearing...
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Mouse, Interrupted
Once upon a time—way back in the 1930s—Columbia Pictures and United Artists released Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoons to theatres. But Columbia and United Artists had nothing to do with the...
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Out of the Vaults: From Binko to Bluto
Omigosh... a Gerstein blogpost! They've been rarer than hen's teeth for quite awhile, and some of you know why—I've spent the last year stretched between quite a lot of publishing projects. But...
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