Midsummer Night Toons
This article was written by Susan Godfrey and was reposted from the animation blog, Go Get ’em Girl. All photo credits to Jazzmine Beaulieu. This last Friday night Matt Lee hosted…
Six Point Harnesses the Power of Crowdsourcing to Bring the Masses a Dick Figures Film
Article by Susan Godfrey. Truly we’ve all seen a lot of Kickstarter campaigns. Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and other crowdsourcing platforms have become a fixture in all the mission-accomplished stories of our…
Rooftop Films Shows Sundance Winners
Article by Jake Friedman. I love this venue. It’s hip, it’s a great night out, and it’s culture! I mean, what else would you call a cartoon about a disembodied…
Dark Toons
Article written by Tristian Goik. Seward Park High School is, at some level, your basic New York public school. We had to trump up five flights of stairs to reach the…
Health Insurance and Health Care Resources for the Under-Insured or Uninsured Artist
Update: A second edition to our guide was written after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. To put it simply, finding decent and affordable health care as an artist…
Summer Bummer by Bill Plympton
As ASIFA-East goes on its summer hiatus, the Viewseum wraps its first full (ASIFA-East) year on the aNYmator. And here, we have both a good way to wrap up the…
ASIFA-East Team on hiatus til the fall
Tis that time of year again when the team here at ASIFA-East takes a break til the fall. A huge thank you to all our board members for their hard…
Video Footage of ASIFA-East’s 1980 Animation Festival
Guest post by Michael Sporn. This article was originally posted on the Splog. Howard Beckerman brought a DVD of his home movies of he ASIFA East Animation Festival of 1980.…
In Memory of Buzz Potamkin…. by Candy Kugel
Buzz Potamkin, one of animation’s most beloved producers on both coasts, passed away from pancreatic cancer on Sunday, April 22nd. Buzz, always interested in film, left Columbia University for a job…
Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art Festival
Article by Tristian Goik. Once or twice, I have heard of people talking about how they ‘got a table’ at the MoCCA Festival. The Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art…