Animation Week #1

Okay, before I post the news, I have to apologize for the "Random Drawing Craze". I planned on posting two drawings today, to make up for not posting anything the past two days, but the scanner wasn't working. With some luck, I may be a able to post up a whole bunch of drawings next week Wednesday and Thursday. Anyway, here's all the animation-related news of the week, from last Friday to yesterday. Some of this stuff has already happened, but I'm posting it anyway. Also, I didn't post reviews, so if you want to see those, so here:

5/30/08

• Toon Zone News Interview Series: "A Life in Voice Acting" with Bob Bergen (Part 1) 
  
• Harvey Korman 1927 - 2008 
  
• Newsarama Interviews Larry Kenney, Voice of "Thundercats" Lion-O
  
• New "Star Wars: Clone Wars" Images On-Line
  
• Briefly: "Ponyo" Japanese Voice Cast; Disney Channel in Spain and Italy
  
• DIC and Vivendi Sign Library Pact for Digital Distribution
  

5/31/08

• "Venture Bros." Season Three: They're Not Dead Again, Are They?
  
• New "Tinker Bell" Trailer and Video Clip Released
  
• "ReBoot" to Return in Online Comics and Trilogy of Animated Movies
  
• "Liberty's Kids" Coming to DVD
  
• Verizon Internet to Add Manga Entertainment Anime
  

6/02/08 (Nothing on the 1st)

• Toon Zone News Interview Series: "A Life in Voice Acting" with Bob Bergen (Part 2)
  
• "The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye" Vol 6's Understated Ending
  
• NY Times Examines Disney/Pixar Merger One Year Later
  
• Buzz Lightyear Launches into Orbit on Space Shuttle Discovery
  
• "Family Guy" to Compete for Emmys with Live-Action Comedies
  
• "Simpsons" Voice Actors Sign Four-Year Deal
  
• Mr. Bill to Become Newest MasterCard Pitchman

6/03/08

• Briefly: H-B Treasury Award; WB's Animated Feature for India; Shyamalan Profile
  
• DC Sr. VP Gregory Noveck Discusses "Batman: Gotham Knight"
  
• Final Episodes of "Spectacular Spider-Man" Scheduled; Jennifer Coyle Interviewed
  
• TV Guide Posts First Look at "Spectacular Spider-Man"'s Venom
  
• Newsarama Interviews Jackson Publick on "Venture Bros" Season 3
  
• Dan Vado Discusses Disney Comics at Slave Labor Graphics
  
• Briefly: Ubisoft Expanding to Animation and CGI; New Book on "Astro Boy"
  

6/04/08

• "Total Drama Island" Animated Reality Show Debuts on Cartoon Network on June 5, 2008 (I have to say that this show really uses it's PG rating. Despite the fact that CN edited out a certain word, they let a homosexual joke slide.)
  
• New "Chowder" Episodes Debut on June 5, 2008 (New "Chowder" episodes for the next 8 weeks. These episodes are the original season finale, and the 7 extra episodes Cartoon Network ordered for the first season.)
  
• LA Times on Yanked "Boondocks" Episodes
  
• ADV Films Announces New August Titles Including "Red Garden" Vol. 6
  
• Viz Media Announces New Sept. & Oct. Titles Including "Naruto" Box 10
  

6/05/08

• "Dilbert" Becomes Daily Animated Strip On-Line (I've known about this prior to Toon Zone reporting it, but whatever)
  
• Briefly: MTV Seeks Animators to Drive "Engine Room"; iTunes Movies in UK and Canada
  
• Voice Cast Announced for "Madagascar 2"
  
• "Kung Fu Panda" Interviews with Jack Black and Co-Dirs Osborne and Stevenson
  
• Newsarama Interviews Dara Naraghi on "Igor" Comic Book Prequels
  
• From Spider-Man to Venom: The Symbiote's Journey on "Spectacular Spider-Man" (One of these days, I have to watch this series and review it)
• Josh Olson on Going from Oscar to "Batman Gotham Knight"
  
• New Images for "Wolverine and the X-Men"