Last Monday, animation veteran Chris Jenkins suffered a stroke in the thalamus of his brain.  His sister has set up a GoFundMe page t...

                                                                                               If there's one reason to get up during th...

Animation lost another great artist yesterday, as Sue Nichols lost her life after a long battle with cancer.  FLiP posted about her fight b...

 Last night there was a story on the local news about Harold Rees, a luthier (maker of stringed instruments) who was still at it at the age ...

For post #501, it's time to switch it up. Friends of FLiP know that every few years, I like to change the logo.  It keeps it fresh ...

Emmy-winning animation Art Director Jill Daniels has set her brushes on a serious subject - to help fight human trafficking.  She is part of...

Six months after it was announced, Gary Larson has posted the first three NEW Far Side cartoons in 25 years on his website.  He picks u...

Industry veteran Ed Bell writes to about his new project, The History of White People in America (not to be confused with the Martin Mull...

Top row: Kevin Lima, Steve Moore, Chris Bailey, Fred Cline.  Middle row: Kirk Wise, Dan Jeup, Rob Minkoff, Wendell Luebbe.  Bottom row: Ti...

Thorfinn, aka Richard Morgan - the nicest viking indeed. Richard Morgan has authored and Illustrated heaps of childrens' books in...

Kelly at the "Nightmare Before Christmas" wrap party.  To his right, Allison Abbate dances with Joe Ranft. When I got the new...

Ed Bell's professional animation career spans 34 years, including stints at Disney, Kroyer Films, Hyperion, and Collosal Pictures.  I...

What can be said that is not already being said about the state of affairs in our country?   And who cares what an animation blog thinks ...

On March 16th, the studio where I work announced that we would all be working from home until the COVID-19 pandemic was under control.  T...

This old short has never been so relevant.  Unfortunately. -Steve

The overwhelming majority of Americans can agree that the return of Gary Larsen's "The Far Side" comics is great news.  I r...

While Santa Claus gets the glory for pulling off Christmas every year, it is common knowledge that he has 'helpers'.  A team of lit...

     Years of brushing my teeth too hard had caused my gums to recede to the point where I needed oral surgery.  And so I found myself recl...

There's a new animation expo in town -  LightBox - and yesterday, I went.   The last such event I attended was the World Animation ...

In the process of updating my personal website , I came across storyboards that never made it for three Illumination films: "The Grinch...

Who knew animators could cook? Tom Sito, USC animation professor, co-director of Osmosis Jones and Emeritus President of the Animation Gu...

We f irst interviewed author Ross Anderson back in 2013, about his research project into the history of the making of Who Framed Roger Rab...

Kathleen "Kay" Bell 1937 Kathleen Bell was a 20th Century illustrator whose work is now almost completely forgotten. She was...

In May of 2014, my wife Donna was a patient at Sloan Kettering Hospital in Manhattan, being treated for complications from the cancer sh...

From left: Charles Solomon, Bob Kurtz, Scott Johnson, Howard Green,  Eric Goldberg, Tom Sito, Alex Williams, Ruben Aquino and Ross Bluche...