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 cartoo...
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 i...
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 pic...
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-ti...
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 J...
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, s...
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 publi...
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 Birt...
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 ...
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' detrim...
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...
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...
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 ...
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. Con...
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...
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...
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... ...
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 ...
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 r...
2020-10-31 21:07:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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 2020-10-19 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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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, Se...
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.)
Wa...
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...
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 pro...
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 Log...
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 s...
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 t...
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 a...
2020-06-29 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1raz6AiUfCsGSxlJL6jj0X4_nSLhI1H56/view?usp=sha...
2020-06-11 05:01:35 +0000 UTC View Post