Stormie is a marketing specialist whose passion for anime has led her to work on marketing and sales teams for multiple major anime brands. In her free time, she's preparing to take the N3 JLPT ...

Perhaps one of animation’s most notorious villains, John Lithgow voiced Shrek‘s Lord Farquaad, the tyrannical and self-absorbed ruler of Duloc. Lord Farquaad is one the film’s main antagonists. He’s ...

Part 1. Origins of animation -- Chapter 1. Setting the scene for animation. Early innovations in simulating movement ; The printing press and comic strips ; The impact of photography on studies of ...

It looks like the Comic Book History of Animation was saving the best for last as the final issue will be heavily anime-focused. But in this preview of The Comic Book History of Animation #5, we learn ...

The annals of culture are filled with what has succeeded and, in some form or another, remained — and yet what we’ve left behind is often as important and instructive as what we’ve kept with us. That ...

A historian of the form has unearthed works by Bessie Mae Kelley that rank as the earliest-known hand-drawn animated films directed by a woman. Bessie Mae Kelley, an early animator and director.Credit ...

The Oscars (and awards ceremonies in general) have a big animation problem. For much of Oscars history animated films have been shut out of nominations, with only animated short films having their own ...