BAM Cinématek’s film retrospective Cool Worlds: The Animation of Ralph Bakshi begins this Friday in Brooklyn, New York. The tribute will run from May 9-20, screening a selection of Bakshi’s cult ...

Ralph Bakshi pulled himself away from his drawing desk in New Mexico to chat with Cartoon Brew about his legacy, his latest project “The Last Days of Coney Island,” which he recently funded on ...

The taboo-shattering counterculture films of seventy-five-year-old animation legend Ralph Bakshi will be the subject of a retrospective this May in his childhood home of Brooklyn, New York. Between ...

"Hey people, Ralphie needs money to draw. Let's give him some so he can make a fool of himself again." — Ralph Bakshi's Miss America, in the Kickstarter campaign video for his new animated project Now ...

I’ve known about this for a while and am excited that I can finally let everybody know about it. Pals Jon Gibson (of I Am 8-Bit fame) and Chris McDonnell (of Meathaus fame) have begun working on a bio ...

Drawing a cartoon feature by hand, frame by frame, used to be the only way to make one. But with the rise of computer imagery, it didn’t take long for hand-drawn animation to become a highly ...

Elemental, Pixar Animation Studios’ 27th feature, is currently nominated for multiple awards, including the best animated feature Oscar and six Visual Effects Society awards categories. This ...

Ralph Bakshi shocked audiences in 1972 with the animated feature film “Fritz the Cat.” The movie, with its adult themes, received an X rating at the time. “What’s extraordinary is what they’re saying ...

We’ve already linked to this, but this interview with Ralph Bakshi has some really shrewd insights peppered throughout. One of his comments that stood out most is his opinion of Pixar: I don’t see too ...

Bill Plympton's latest hand-drawn feature is a scruffy collaboration that's like an updated Ralph Bakshi cartoon. But maybe not updated enough. Drawing a cartoon feature by hand, frame by frame, used ...