I've got two new articles up at Animation World Network's website. The first is a series of interviews based on Nickelodeon's Random! Cartoons, and the second is my ongoing Fresh From the Festivals column.

More interviews and such coming up next month, too--they're keeping me pretty busy these days, which is a good thing.

And regarding my previous "watch this space" post, keep March 5 open on your social calendar if you're in the Bay Area. I'll be making a very cool announcement about that very soon.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit turned 20(!) years old in 2008, and to celebrate, Bill Desowitz of Animation World Network and I interviewed some of the major animators who worked on the film. Please follow this link for some cool behind-the-scenes stories about everyone's fav--um...third or fourth most favorite rabbit.

I've got a new Fresh From the Festivals column up at Animation World Network, and if you missed it, I had a review of Don Hahn's new book, The Alchemy of Animation, up earlier this month.

Coming soon will be some interviews I did as part of the 20th (!) anniversary of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

And as long as I'm plugging things, there are a lot of events coming up at the Cartoon Art Museum over the next couple of weeks. Please check out our LiveJournal for details.

Two quick announcements: First up, I've got a new Fresh From the Festivals column up at Animation World Network, including a review of Glago's Guest, the new Disney short premiering with Bolt next month.

Secondly, just under the wire, I finished up a new mini-comic for APE this weekend. I'll leave it up to you to guess the plot, but here's the cover:

Here's my newest set of reviews for Animation World Network. There's some fun stuff in this month's clips, including the must-see shorts Skhizein and A-Z.

This month, I tackle the five finalists for September's Cartoon d'Or award, which will be presented at an animation festival in Germany on September 18. Read the reviews and see clips here, then e-mail my editors at this address to tell them that you enjoyed my reviews: editor@awn.com

Earlier this month, I interviewed El Tigre Co-Creator and Executive Producer Jorge Gutierrez for Animation World Network. You can read the complete interview here. Please check it out, and, as always, if you enjoy what I'm writing, please drop the folks at AWN.com a line and tell them to keep me around.

Thanks!

Here's my latest Fresh From the Festivals review at Animation World Network, including my review of the super-incredibly-great new Pixar short, Presto, which opens with Wall*E next Friday.

And for those of you who may not have heard, Berkeley's Comic Relief is hosting a memorial event for Rory Root tomorrow. Check out http://www.comicrelief.net for details. I may say a few words if there's room for me on the schedule...

All that and more in my April "Fresh From the Festivals" column over at Animation World Network.

In all the hubbub this week, I forgot to mention that my March 2008 Fresh From the Festivals column is now online at the Animation World Network.

And as always, if you like what you read, please send a quick email to editor@awn.com. I'm not sure how many of the articles generate feedback, but a positive word or two can't hurt.

The good news? I've got a lengthy article up in the new installment of Animation World Network's online magazine detailing this year's convention.

The bad news? Rampant use of the word "geeky" throughout the headline and any part of the article that I didn't write. (Out of curiosity, though, I just found out that a google search for "Andrew Farago" and "cool" produces 8,54o results, while "Andrew Farago" and "geeky" only turns up 157, including the article. Make of that what you will.)

Read on for details...


WonderCon 2007: Bay Area Goes Geeky
Andrew Farago goes geeky at the growing WonderCon and tells us what Hollywood had in store for fans in the San Francisco Bay area:

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=3210&page=1