Caricatured here, a 1984 version of Steve Moore, Dan Jeup, Mike Genz, and Fred Cline   40 years ago this month, I was winding up my junior y...

The 1983-84 school year at Cal Arts was my favorite, and my student film that year, "Bob the Dragon" is a reflection of that.  I ...

Program for the 1982 show, designed by Fred Cline. Forty years ago this week, I took part in my first CalArts Character Animation Show.  Th...

    CalArts I.D., 1981 40 years ago this week, my journey in character animation began.  I've been thinking about it recently, like look...

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

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

I recently came across a box full of keepsakes from my days as a CalArts student.  Among the memory jogging items were sketches and a let...

I went to CalArts in the fall of 1981 as an 18 year-old just out of high school.  I had never lived on my own, and found myself suddenl...

I have posted before about artistic influences , artists who I did not work with personally, but had a strong influence on my o...

Dane Jorgen Klubien has lived in two parallel career worlds going back to the 1970's: one as an animator and story man for studios such...

When I first heard of Walt Disney's "Nine Old Men", seven of them were still alive.  Of those seven, I got to meet six.  And ...

Rusty Mills needs your help.  He is near the end, suffering from cancer, but is leaving behind a wife and a lot of hospital bills.  A fu...

This time of year always makes me think of Cal Arts' Halloween parties.  They were the wildest, most bizarre galas only a school of arti...

In the fall of 1981, I was a freshman at CalArts .  I lived in the dorms, room 251.  I had a small, black and white Regal television in my r...