The second issue of Cartoons - The International Journal of Animation arrived in my mailbox last Tuesday. This is the new magazine of ASIFA International. If you are a member of ASIFA-Hollywood (excluding student memberships - sorry) then you are also a member of ASIFA International and should have gotten this mailing. If your are not, shame on y0u.

Being a member of ASIFA International has never really meant that much to me because I don`t, as a rule, go to Annecy or any of the other big festivals and most of the events that I go to are ASIFA-Hollywood events.

But Cartoons has changed that if for no other reason than it is a damn fine magazine. I am starting to look forward to the arrival of Cartoons in the old mailbox just like I look forward to the arrival Animation Magazine.

This issue has a killer John Canemaker article on Dana Parker, the unknown man in the famous 1926 Pat Sullivan studio photograph. I have often wondered about the man in the fourth chair. I know that Sullivan who did none of the actual animation is setting in Otto Messmer`s chair and that the man in the third chair (normally the second chair) is Raoul Barre` founder of the first animation studio fresh from losing that studio to Charley Bowers. But who is the man is the fourth seat? The guy that was normally Messmer`s right hand man? John answers that question.



Other articles of note: Cartoons Made in Argentine the (nearly) Unseen Story, Hollywood vs. Hicksville: Warner Bros. And Disney in the 1930s, A View of Animation in Israel, and (the article I am currently reading) Animated Couples: Bordo and Vesna Dovnikovic (about the long time first couple of Zagreb). There is a lot more in the magazine that I have not gotten to yet, don`t want to slight anyone, I am just taking my time and enjoying this read.

So how do you get Cartoons - The International Journal of Animation? You got ta buy Wonka Bars/join ASIFA. Class re-dismissed.  ¶ 9:22 AM