And yet another distraction from this brick and mortar blog… I’ve entered the world of podcasting with renowned animation director and historian Bob Jaques to co-host Cartoon Logic. Description blurb below:
Welcome to Thad Komorowski and Bob Jaques’ podcast examining the best classic cartoons ever made, and just why they are the best classic cartoons ever made!
Historical overviews, scene-by-scene analysis and highlights from classic shorts, intricate breakdowns from an animator’s perspective, occasional animator and historian guests… all you could ever want to know about ancient cartoons in this modern age, from two gents who’ve done the research and are just bursting to share that knowledge with our listenership.
Our official free feed is available on Libsyn at this link, and you can subscribe, rate, and review us at iTunes here. Also consider pledging to our Patreon, where Bob and I plan to add more to the sphere of animation research in the form of video commentaries. We hope to have these out on a bi-weekly schedule, but of course we’d love to do it more frequently if it takes off.
You can find the first episode, all about the recent Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s, Vol. 2 release from Warner Archive, and Famous Studios in general, below.
Listened to the episode. Great stuff, Thad! Can’t wait for “Baby Bottleneck”! Random question, but there were annoying minor errors on “Popeye the Sailor: the 1940s Volume 1” and “Popeye the Sailor: the 1940s Volume 2.” Are there any errors on “Popeye the Sailor: the 1940s Volume 3,” audio or video wise? I’m not aware of anything, but I bet there’s gotta be something……also, any updates on the status of your NY animation book that I’m dying to get a hold of? Famous Studios needs a written history.
Hey Austin,
There are some audio goofs on Vol. 3, yeah. The most irritating is “Olive Oyl for President”, which has a fake end cue when the original end cue has been part of every copy for the last 70 years. (It was also the cue sloppily pasted over every color Popeye in the AAP library.) I believe “A Tar with a Star” and “Silly Hillbilly” have fake ones, too, but in their case copies of the originals couldn’t be found. I can’t comment any further as I still haven’t seen the disc, but the picture does indeed look amazing! Charlie and I are still working on that book, but life has been getting in the way.
I’d love to know why “President” didn’t have its end cue intact. Oh, well. It’ll still kick ass anyways. Here’s to hoping that on the next volume (if we get one) “Riot in Rhythm” has its original ending!