The Queen of Cartoons is More Popular Than Ever with New Apparel, Accessories, Pet Products, and an Upcoming Broadway Musical Leading brand-licensing agency Global Icons and Fleischer Studios, owner of a number of classic animated characters including Betty Boop, have entered into a wide range of new licensing collaborations for the beloved Queen of Cartoons, […]
Posts Tagged ‘Max Fleischer’
Global Icons and Fleischer Studios Announce New Brand Collaborations for Animated Icon Betty Boop
April 10th, 2024 
Jerry Beck 
First in Flight: The 80th Anniversary of The Fleischer Studio’s “Superman” Cartoons
October 12th, 2021 Michael Lyons Superman has been in the conversation a lot lately. This spring brought us the highly anticipated Zack Snyder’s Justice League, (which came about thanks to a fan campaign) and this February, the CW network debuted the series, Superman & Lois. Not surprisingly, as we live in a world of the comic book shared universe TV […]
NYC Event July 25th: “The Amazing and Incredible History and Future of Brooklyn Animation”
July 17th, 2017 Jerry Beck 2017 is a momentous year for Brooklyn animation. Archivist David Kay is hosting an event next week to celebrate the 150th birthday of Winsor McCay and the 100th anniversary of Max Fleischer’s rotoscope patent). The event is titled The Amazing and Incredible History and Future of Brooklyn Animation and it hopes to enlighten, inspire and […]
THURSDAY in LA: Fleischer’s “Gulliver’s Travels” @ LACMA with Live Music
May 8th, 2017 Jerry Beck For the fourth edition of Film Independent’s new Bring the Noise series at LACMA (The Los Angeles Museum of Art) — in which musical artists compose original score for favorite films, and play the score live in real time to accompany the movie — the band Inc. No World bring their skills to “one of […]
Animation Restorations Highlight UCLA’s 2017 Festival of Preservation
February 18th, 2017 Jerry Beck UCLA Film & Television Archive’s 18th Festival of Preservation kicks off in early March with a showcase of the latest restoration projects from its renown archive. In addition to undiscovered gems from classic Hollywood, rare silents, the films of Laurel & Hardy, 1960s television specials – and much more – the archive is devoting one […]
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Tags: Asifa-Hollywood, Max Fleischer, UCLA Film and Television Archive 
7 Comments » Animation Historian Ray Pointer Discusses His Book “The Art and Inventions Of Max Fleischer”
August 15th, 2016 Jerry Beck Now available for pre-order is the long awaited history of the man and studio behind a few of the most famous cartoon characters and some of the greatest, most-influential animated films in the history of the medium. Author and historian Ray Pointer is a forty-year film and animation professional. He has spent a life time […]
