Tag "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America"

Yvette Kaplan Looks Back at ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’

December 13, 2012 by Michael Mallory No Comments divider image

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to come face to face one of the many, many people I knew only over the telephone, having conducted interviews with them from afar. In this case it was animation director Yvette Kaplan. I introduced myself by saying, “If I’m not mistaken, you [...]

Animation Block Party Spotlight: Doug Crane

July 19, 2012 by Casey Safron 1 Comment divider image

Animation Block Party (www.animationblock.com) is the premier animation festival of the East Coast. In this interview series, the founder of ABP, Casey Safron will be introducing Animation Magazine readers to some of the award-winning animators who have screened at past ABP festivals. Animation Block Party has been fortunate enough to [...]

Don’t Judge a Judge by his Characters!

November 22, 2011 by Michael Mallory 1 Comment divider image

Recently I bumped into an old acquaintance who happened to mention that he had been a good friend of Bob Clampett during the legendary toonmaker’s latter-day career. He described Clampett as being just as funny and crazy in his private life as his characters were on-screen (well, maybe not quite [...]

Gods of Animation Smile at MTV

September 7, 2011 by Thomas J. McLean 1 Comment divider image

The cabler toons up its schedule with new episodes of Mike Judge’s beloved Beavis and Butt-Head and the premiere of the surfer show Good Vibes. Animation fans are going to want their MTV again this fall, when the music network gets back into the cartoon game in a big way [...]