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Animation festival gets funding reprieve *
The Ottawa International Animation Festival has gotten a reprieve from its possible demise after Telefilm Canada decided to reinstate its annual funding for at least for one more year.
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Anita Kunz: Drawing satirical conclusions *
Canadian illustrator Anita Kunz, being honoured with a Library of Congress exhibit, talks to SARAH MILROY about the change in climate artists are facing in the U.S.
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Drawn and quartered *
They're funny until they get mad. Editorial cartoonists in the United States are at war with each other. DOUG SAUNDERS describes the battlefield
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Entertainment caricaturist Al Hirshfeld dies *
Al Hirschfeld, whose graceful, fluid caricatures captured the essence of performers from Charlie Chaplin to Jerry Seinfeld, died Monday, January 20, 2003. He was 99.
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The International Museum of Cartoon Art *
The International Museum of Cartoon Art is the only museum of its kind -- with cartoonists represented from over 50 countries.
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Wallace & Gromit trove lost in blaze *
Fire destroyed a priceless archive of Aardman Animations props, sets and models early yesterday, just hours after the company learned that its animated clay movie stars Wallace and Gromit had topped the North American box office.
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Wicks: Cartoonist's drawings focus of court battle *
Eleven years ago, Richard Harnett was helping his brother move into a new house when he stumbled across thousands of drawings jammed into garbage bags.
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Author sues Steven Spielberg, Nick Park *
We think author hasn't got a (chicken) leg to stand on...
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Futurama on DVD *****
I'll admit that Futurama is one of my all-time favourite cartoon shows, and I considered throwing myself into a suicide phone booth (the way that Bender and Fry met) when the series got cancelled, but the arrival of this timely DVD has given me a new lease on life.
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Linus Blankets St. Paul ****
Charles Schulz, creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip that graced the pages of newspaper comics around the world for 50 years and was further popularized on a number of television specials, would be thrilled that his characters are still generating adoration.
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