Pages from BETTY BOOP'S MOVIE CARTOON LESSONS (1933). Betty Boop was my first movie love. How old was I? Six or something. "Betty Boop's Birthday Party"-my grandfather had taped it for me, and I had never seen anything like it. Wonderfully bonkers.




When I started my YT channel, I created a side channel where I collected all the Betty Boop cartoons in their best possible quality. "Birthday Party" is part of the collection, the original plus the colored, subtitled version I saw all those years ago. https://t.co/k42kuEkOSj





Animation art from the very first Tom & Jerry cartoon, PUSS GETS THE BOOT (1940).

Transgender synth pioneer, Wendy Carlos (1939). She composed the TRON score-one of my favorites. She also composed music for A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and THE SHINING (you remember the main theme & Rocky Mountains). Much more commercially successful perhaps was SWITCHED-ON BACH (1968).

Italian artist, Dino Buzzati (1906-1972). 1963.

Concept art by Claire Keane for unmade Disney feature, MORT.

Zombie designs by William Stout for RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1984).

Art from the Rankin/Bass version of THE HOBBIT (1977).

Illustrations by Tove Jansson for a Swedish edition of THE HOBBIT. 1962.

Halloween card by Jack Davis. 1959.

Art by Iwao Takamoto (1925-2007). After working for Disney (where he assisted Marc Davis & Milt Kahl), Takamoto went on to work at Hanna-Barbera, where he designed the Scooby-Doo gang, among others. Image 1 shows his pitch art for that show, 2 is pitch art for Penelope Pitstop.


Geof Darrow concept art for THE MATRIX series.

Storyboards by Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski for the opening sequence to BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES (1992).