Yes, at long last, the long-anticipated return of the only good classic cartoon podcast! We break down last fall's surprise disc from Warner Archive of the remaining releasable MGM Tex Avery cartoons. It's a cross-selection of some of the finest, wildest animated shorts ever made - and find out w...
2022-03-07 16:15:12 +0000 UTC View PostOnce again we're pausing the September billing. Sorry for the inactivity. I am in production hell currently on a restoration project, and Bob is also working on stuff. BUT. The U.S.-Canada border is open once again for non-essential travel, so recordings in person will be happening again!
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2021-08-27 23:27:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Didja miss us? We're back, for the conclusion of the black-and-white theatrical Popeye cartoons, now wholly done at Famous Studios. Jim Tyer comes into his own in a set up of wartime propaganda pictures, while the other Famous writers and directors take the wrong lessons from Warners and apply th...
2021-07-21 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSorry to once again not post any content, but it's been a trying couple of weeks. My dad passed away the first week of May and whatever energy I've had is mostly going towards that. Bob has full-time design work and literally can only record/work on the podcast on weekends, and I also have my toe...
2021-06-30 16:04:14 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
A lot's been going on, and this Patreon hasn't been as active and I'm not entirely sure when the next content post will be. I'm pausing the June billing, so you won't be charged for June 1. Thanks for understanding!
-Thad
2021-05-12 20:08:22 +0000 UTC View Post
The operation officially becomes Famous Studios this year, the sailor man becomes a Navy man, and a newfound energy and life invigorates the Popeye series, thanks to some flawless musical timing, star defacto director Al Eugster, and a new arrival, a certain eccentric animator named Jim Tyer.
... 2021-04-11 20:15:18 +0000 UTC View PostThis has been a while brewing... One of our upcoming episodes will be on the subject of Jay Ward and all his animated friends with special guests Keith Scott and Darrell Van Citters. Both are published authors and expert historians on the subject (between both of their books, you'll know everythi...
2021-04-07 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Easter!
We apologize for the delay, but given the subject, you should understand why this podcast took a long time. Yes, it's the conclusion of our Bugs Bunny 80th Birthday Blu-Ray review. Our favorite cartoon hero runs on autopilot with Friz Freleng, Bob McKimson, an...
2021-04-04 19:09:54 +0000 UTC View Post
March has not been a productive month for Cartoon Logic, but work is underway for sure. Between my restoration workload (see attached, not final screencap and from a low-rez proxy) and some family health matters (not COVID-related), and Bob's own animation workload, putting the final touches on B...
2021-03-26 17:48:42 +0000 UTC View Post
The Fleischer Studio is no longer the Fleischer Studio, but not quite Famous Studios yet, as we'll get into this episode and next. Popeye becomes the rifle-carrying antagonist to the series' detriment, but we do get a few highlights by way of Poopdeck Pappy, Swee'pea, and directors Bill Nolan and...
2021-02-28 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
November's Blu-ray release of Bugs Bunny cartoons is so jam-packed with Technicolor animated perfection we have to do two episodes about it! In part one, we discuss what made the character take off immediately, and all the highlights of the set's first disc of 1940s cartoons, in which very differ...
2021-02-20 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Popeye enters his second decade with his Golden Age firmly behind him, yet production at the Miami Fleischer studio kicks up: fifteen cartoons were released this year! At this point the established directors and storymen lose their way, while lots of new crews work try their hand at Popeye (and f...
2021-01-25 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back to one of our favorite topics to discuss the newest Tex Avery collection from Warner Archive! Despite some substandard presentation, the laughs come faster and furious in this volume as Avery finds perfection in his filmmaking style, thanks in no small part to animator Mike Lah and MVP...
2021-01-03 18:00:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Just be advised, you guys will be getting the next episode first, before the public, which will be about Tex Avery's Screwball Classics Vol. 2. We decided to shuffle the order. Considering we can't stop talking about Tex, this seems more timely to talk about.
Apologies for ...
2021-01-01 22:31:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Now operating in Miami, the Fleischer studio begins to systematically rid itself of everything that made it the greatest cartoon studio of the decade. Crews shift, droves of Hollywood animators and storymen arrive to help with Gulliver's Travels, and the sailor is now getting shoehorned ...
2020-12-13 17:12:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Our first (of few) forays into TV animation, examining the early days of Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera's "planned" animation empire! We talk about what went wrong at Hanna-Barbera, and what went right in the early days, thanks to folks like Ed Benedict (whom Bob met), Daws Butler, Alan Reed, and Car...
2020-11-22 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This Thanksgiving week we're posting our unplanned look at a certain important animation studio where Ed Benedict (the man caricatured above by Bob after he visited him in 1986) figured heavily... It'll be yabba-dabba-delicious....
-Thad
2020-11-22 00:11:18 +0000 UTC View Post
We officially reach the Spinach Skrewtny crossroads! One can't help but see the Fleischer studio up and moving from New York to Miami was what wrapped the Golden Age of the Popeye series. But as we discuss, even while still up north, gags take precedence over character and cartoo...
2020-11-12 23:01:22 +0000 UTC View Post
We're running a bit behind - we only recorded the 1938 Spinach Skrewtny today, but I can tell you all are a patient lot and know hearing our insights is always worth the wait. We really appreciate it!
2020-10-31 21:07:52 +0000 UTC
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Here to guide us through our history of the cartoons made in the 1920s and 1930s by the Van Beuren Studio is our special guest historian and musician Charlie Judkins, the leading authority on early New ...
2020-10-19 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LTwCJjbgKiv_GO5NLF0j08kYOAuyRbKi/view?usp=sharing
For one of his finest and funniest Warner cartoons, Cross-Country Detours, T...
2020-10-15 01:12:08 +0000 UTC View Post
We go back to the oasis of primo Popeye in the important season 1937, with all three of the animation units firing on all (two) cylinders; Willard Bowsky takes the sailor to new literal heights, Seymour Kneitel gives more Swee'pea for Popeye's troubles, and Dave Tendlar teaches Bluto to be kind t...
2020-10-01 14:45:18 +0000 UTC View Post
We have returned! (And you patrons gets it a day early! We are going to post the show here from now on, sometimes early if we can manage, so we can collect all your comments in one place.)
Warner cartoon legend Art Davis served as an animator in the '40s and '50s and had an exceptionally me...
2020-09-26 21:32:12 +0000 UTC View Post
What's the most remarkable, extraordinary season?
Yes, we've been alluding to this for months, and it's happened: the most perfect year of cartoons in the history of animation. Willard Bowsky steers Popeye and co. into Technicolor two-reel waters with the phenomena...
2020-08-31 23:45:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy folks,
We're hard at work, cutting it close for the 1936 Spinach Skrewtny, but it is recorded! Bob has some exciting opportunities, and I've got lots of restoration projects coming through. (Once in a while it's animation related; see above image for a hint.)
As...
2020-08-29 01:03:42 +0000 UTC View Post
If it wasn’t obvious from how quiet it is around here, Bob and I are extremely busy these days. We wanted to take this time to ask patrons if they would be comfortable if Cartoon Logic switched to a monthly basis.
Hear us out: these podcasts take a LOT of work, but we’re no...
2020-08-09 15:26:55 +0000 UTC View PostI'm aware we've been pretty quiet here. Remote work has been coming in for both of us, so our podcasting time is a bit limited, but we really love doing the show and know how important the Popeye series especially is. To help budget time, this Monday's episode of the regular Cartoon Logic show is...
2020-07-30 17:44:05 +0000 UTC View Post
We arrive at 1935, a truly historic year for the Fleischer Popeye series. The artists' filmmaking skills are essentially mastered on every level, background/layout setbacks are used for the first time, and Popeye is now voiced by Jack Mercer, who gave him the rich range and depth the character al...
2020-07-30 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
We continue our chronological examination of the Fleischer Popeye cartoons with the year 1934, when the order went up to a whopping 12 cartoons per season! Join us as we examine how the directors and animators expanded upon Popeye's acting range and figured out pretty quickly what did and didn't ...
2020-06-29 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1raz6AiUfCsGSxlJL6jj0X4_nSLhI1H56/view?usp=sharing
Hey, wanna talk more about Elmer Fudd's rifle?
Well, that's not the topic at ha...
2020-06-11 05:01:35 +0000 UTC View Post