A-HAA Podcast 004: Eddie Fitzgerald II / Spike Jones

A-HAA Podcast
Episode 004

49 min / 24.9 MB / AAC
03.09.10 / RSS Feed
MP3 Version

INDEX

00:00:00 News with Michael and Danny
00:02:30 Eddie Fitzgerald Interview Part II
00:30:15 Breadcrumbs with Skip and Steve: Spike Jones
00:47:23 Closing notes with Michael and Danny

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ABOUT THE GUESTS

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Eddie Fitzgerald is a renaissance man among cartoonists. He is an animation director, story artist, philosopher, historian and all around great guy. On his blog, Uncle Eddie's Theory Corner, he has discussed everything from poetry, ballet, philosophy and music to Mad magazine, the unique shapes of ears, vintage men's magazines, Italian insult gestures and how to make the perfect hamburger. Eddie is most famous for his "Fum-Eddies", comic strips made from photos he creates on the iSight camera of his Macintosh. In his Fum-Eddies, he has travelled around the world, back in time to the old West, through the magic of dreams to Neverland and even via rocket into the deepest reaches of outer space! If you haven't bookmarked his blog yet, do so. You'll be glad you did.

Skip Heller is a multi-talented composer, arranger and musician who has worked in a diversity of styles, from punk rock to orchestral music to jazz to old time country. He is a wellspring of information on the history of music and the people who play it, and shares his encyclopedic knowledge daily on his blog at SkipHeller.com.

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ABOUT THE HOSTS

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Danny Young: A very sympathetic person once told me, "You have the perfect body for podcasting." And while I don't like to boast, the seat of my chair has almost completely taken on the shape of me. I'm always cruising the internets for savvy cartoon info and I'm ecstatic to be here co-hosting the fruits of my labor with you, and sharing in the wealth of animation knowledge there is to find. I sincerely hope that we all can become better artists because of it.

You can reach Danny at... dannyyoung@animationarchive.org

Michael Woodside: I'm a relatively new Californian, having recently moved from Central Florida. After volunteering at the ASIFA-Hollywood Archive, I realized pretty quickly that I basically knew a fraction of what was to be known about the world of animation. This podcast is a means for me to uncover these topics and to share them with people like you. So stick around, because we are gonna un-dumb ourselves at an alarming rate!

You can reach Michael at... michaelwoodside@animationarchive.org

Stephen Worth is the Director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. He's a well known expert on vintage animation art with over 20 years of experience as a Producer for Bagdasarian Productions, Ralph Bakshi and John Kricfalusi's Spumco. He is the recipient of three Annie Awards, including the June Foray Award for significant and benevolent impact on the art of animation.

You can reach Stephen at sworth@animationarchive.org

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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

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News Segment

ANNIES: 37th Annual Annie Awards Webcast
EVENT: 2009 Afternoon of Remembrance

Eddie Fitzgerald Interview

WWW: Uncle Eddie's Theory Corner

Breadcrumbs: Spike Jones

AMAZON: Spike Jones: The Legend DVD
AMAZON: The Best of Spike Jones DVD
AMAZON: The Best of Spike Jones CD

AMAZON: Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection: The Greatest Novelty Records of All Time
AMAZON: Simcha Time: Mickey Katz Plays Music for Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs and Brisses
AMAZON: America's Song Butchers: The Weird World of Homer & Jethro

GROOVESHARK Playlist: Spike Jones
WWW: Dr Demento's Website (Streaming Shows!)

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CREDITS

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Produced by Michael Woodside and Danny Young
© 2010 The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood

A-HAA Podcast Theme composed by Christopher Heckman (Sarra Hey, Clarinet, Rachel Woods-Robinson, Trombone)
Breadcrumbs Theme "The Collector" by Skip Heller from the CD Lua-O-Milo
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Comics; Jimmy Swinnerton

This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see reason number 2 on our The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for links to more great posts about print cartoonists.


Today, in David Apatoff's great blog Illustration Art I read the amazing life story of pioneer newspaper cartoonist Jimmy Swinnerton. David's article is titled, Jimmy Swinnerton At The Dawn of Comic Strips, and it's well worth reading.

David's vivid history lesson inspired me to dig into our collection and post some more examples of Swinnerton's pioneering genius. These images were donated by Jonathan Barli of Digital Funnies. Jonathan contributed thousands of high resolution scans of rare newspaper comics two years ago, and we are just now finishing up processing the images for inclusion in our database.

As I always say when I post newspaper comics... if you're one of those folks who don't click on the images because you don't think it's worth the time it takes to read... YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE MISSING!








Here are some illustrations by Swinnerton from the late 20s...










Many thanks to Jonathan Barli and David Apatoff for their great work!

For more great newspaper cartoons, see... Milt Gross Sunday Pages and Dailies Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, Part Six and Part Seven; Chic Young's Blondie, Rube Goldberg's Side Show; George Lichty's Grin and Bear It, Cliff Sterrett's Polly & Her Pals Part One, Part Two and Part Three; and Harrison Cady's Birds' Eye Views

Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive
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FREE EBOOK: Zim's Cartoons and Caricatures Part 15 of 20

This is the fifteenth of twenty posts where we plan to post a complete set of high resolution scans of Zim's Cartoons & Caricatures, or Making The World Laugh (1910). These 100 pages are packed with great cartoons, helpful drawing tips, technical information and business advice for the aspiring cartoonist. Most importantly, Zim passes along his unique philosophy of life, and offers a shining example of how an artistic career as a caricaturist can be incorporated into a person's lifestyle. At the time this book was written, Zim had thirty years of experience under his belt, and had attained the highest level in his field. For more information, see the Zim's Cartoons & Caricatures page.

Every week, we will post five more pages, but they will be deleted from our server after 30 days, so download them while you can. To save the images to your hard drive, right click on the image (or CONTROL click if you are using a Mac) and select "SAVE IMAGE AS". To see all of the currently available pages, see the ZIMEBOOK Tag.





If you haven't downloaded previous entries, please do so immediately. I am going to start expiring links to earlier posts soon. Check back next week for more pages from this rare book.



SOLD OUT The two volume Zim Cartooning Course is now sold out. There are no immediate plans for another print run, but if you would like to be notified if it becomes available again, email... sworth@animationarchive.org. For more information on the genius of Eugene "Zim" Zimmerman, see the Zim Online Exhibit page.
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A-HAA Podcast 003: Eddie Fitzgerald / The Coasters

A-HAA Podcast
Episode 003

40 min / 29.6 MB / AAC
02.23.10 / RSS Feed
MP3 Version

INDEX

00:00:00 Blog Suggestions with Michael and Danny
00:04:03 Eddie Fitzgerald Interview
00:26:00 Breadcrumbs with Skip and Steve: The Coasters
00:38:45 Closing notes with Michael and Danny

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ABOUT THE GUESTS

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Eddie Fitzgerald is a renaissance man among cartoonists. He is an animation director, story artist, philosopher, historian and all around great guy. On his blog, Uncle Eddie's Theory Corner, he has discussed everything from poetry, ballet, philosophy and music to Mad magazine, the unique shapes of ears, vintage men's magazines, Italian insult gestures and how to make the perfect hamburger. Eddie is most famous for his "Fum-Eddies", comic strips made from photos he creates on the iSight camera of his Macintosh. In his Fum-Eddies, he has travelled around the world, back in time to the old West, through the magic of dreams to Neverland and even via rocket into the deepest reaches of outer space! If you haven't bookmarked his blog yet, do so. You'll be glad you did.

Skip Heller is a multi-talented composer, arranger and musician who has worked in a diversity of styles, from punk rock to orchestral music to jazz to old time country. He is a wellspring of information on the history of music and the people who play it, and shares his encyclopedic knowledge daily on his blog at SkipHeller.com.

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ABOUT THE HOSTS

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Danny Young: A very sympathetic person once told me, "You have the perfect body for podcasting." And while I don't like to boast, the seat of my chair has almost completely taken on the shape of me. I'm always cruising the internets for savvy cartoon info and I'm ecstatic to be here co-hosting the fruits of my labor with you, and sharing in the wealth of animation knowledge there is to find. I sincerely hope that we all can become better artists because of it.

You can reach Danny at... dannyyoung@animationarchive.org

Michael Woodside: I'm a relatively new Californian, having recently moved from Central Florida. After volunteering at the ASIFA-Hollywood Archive, I realized pretty quickly that I basically knew a fraction of what was to be known about the world of animation. This podcast is a means for me to uncover these topics and to share them with people like you. So stick around, because we are gonna un-dumb ourselves at an alarming rate!

You can reach Michael at... michaelwoodside@animationarchive.org

Stephen Worth is the Director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. He's a well known expert on vintage animation art with over 20 years of experience as a Producer for Bagdasarian Productions, Ralph Bakshi and John Kricfalusi's Spumco. He is the recipient of three Annie Awards, including the June Foray Award for significant and benevolent impact on the art of animation.

You can reach Stephen at sworth@animationarchive.org

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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

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News Segment

SPUNGELLA: Animal Locomotion for Animators
FLICKR: Eadweard Muybridge's Human and Animal Locomotion
JOHN K: Color Theory

Eddie Fitzgerald Interview

Uncle Eddie's Theory Corner

Breadcrumbs: The Coasters

AMAZON: Yakety Yak: The Platinum Collection
AMAZON: The Golden Age of American Rock 'N' Roll, Volume 1 (This whole series of CDs is highly recommended... great songs, great sound.)

GROOOVESHARK: The Coasters Playlist (For more similar songs, click on the "RADIO" button and Grooveshark will add them to your list!)

WWW: Dr Demento's Website (Streaming Shows!)

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CREDITS

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Produced by Michael Woodside and Danny Young
© 2010 The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood

A-HAA Podcast Theme composed by Christopher Heckman (Sarra Hey, Clarinet, Rachel Woods-Robinson, Trombone)
Breadcrumbs Theme "The Collector" by Skip Heller from the CD Lua-O-Milo
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