The Post on animation - Pixar’s ‘Turning Red’ and ‘I Am Here’

Pixar's 'Turning Red' is a brilliant, hilarious follow-up to Oscar-winning short 'Bao' [in print as Nothing fuzzy about coming-of-age flick]

Domee Shi's semi-autobiographical first feature film is audacious, funny and sweet.

By Michael O'Sullivan

Staff writer

Washington Post March 11, 2022  p. Weekend 18, 20

https://www.washingtonpost.com/movies/2022/03/09/turning-red-movie-review/

(4 stars)

Documentary tells a Holocaust-survival story in simple animation

'I Am Here' is a bearing of witness, by 98-year-old Ella Blumenthal [South Africa]

By Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post March 11, 2022  p. Weekend 20

https://www.washingtonpost.com/movies/2022/03/08/i-am-here-movie-review/

(2 stars)

 

What to watch with your kids: ‘The Adam Project’, ‘Turning Red’ and more [Big Nate; animation]

Washington Post March 11, 2022  p. Weekend 21

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/what-to-watch-with-your-kids-the-adam-project-turning-red-and-more/2022/03/09/7c5e7252-9b3b-11ec-adfd-da5e159009e0_story.html

 

Adams, Kubert do comic book story on Holocaust survivor

Today's NY Times has an article about Neal Adams and Joe Kubert drawing a story to aid Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, a Holocaust survivor and animator get some original artwork returned. Stan Lee also participated. See "Comic-Book Idols Rally to Aid a Holocaust Artist," By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES, New York Times August 9, 2008. You can download the comic story as well.

Early articles on this issue, courtesy of my Comics Research Bibliography research, are

Wyman Institute. 2006.
450 Cartoonists Urge Poland to Return Auschwitz Paintings [by animator Dina Babbitt].
Kansas City infoZine (September 21):
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/17845/

Brady, Matt. 2006.
JOE KUBERT RALLIES THE CREATIVE COMMUNTY FOR DINA BABBIT.
Newsrama (September 12): http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=83781