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The Magical Animation of Windsor McCay

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Can you believe it’s been 100 years?  Yeah, time really flies.

Windsor McKay — genius behind the Little Nemo comic strip — ventured into movies with “Gertie The Dinosaur”

Nobody had every imagined cartoons could move.  And before color movies — animation could be hand colored, so color film wasn’t needed.

Here is the 100-year-old Little Nemo film (partially hand-colored).  Please note — no drugs were used in imagining this wild specatacle.

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Really interesting article from the LA Times – Hero Complex Winsor McCays Little Nemo Brought a New Animated Spirit to Film 100 Years Ago
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The Big Score: TV’s “The Event”

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Have you ever been interested in scoring a film or TV show?

 

Composer Scott Starret has been providing the soundtrack for NBC’s new series The Event.

The official ASCAP blog has a video interview with the composer by  Etan Rosenbloom, Membership/Marketing Associate and Blog Coordinator

Highly Recommended.

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Cool Comic Art — Alex Raymond

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Comic panel of Secret Agent X-9 fighting a gang of armed thugs.

Alex Raymond excelled in dynamic action illustration

I immediately fell in love with Alex Raymond’s art when first exposed to it.  As a film noir and detective fiction fan, I discovered that he illustrated a comic strip called Rip Kirby, with the script by Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon and Thin Man author).

After Raymond’s death, the strip continued with other artists and changed to Secret Agent X-9.

Raymond made his biggest splash as the originator (author and artist) of Flash Gordon.  Awesome stuff and influential to this day.

Here you go — enjoy Alex Raymond.

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