A badge of honor, to many people, would be an award or merit of some type. But not to cartoonist Ed Seeman. Musician Frank Zappa called Seeman “a freak,” when referring to him during a cough drop ...

Ron Stark has a vanity license plate that reads “CEL DR.” The plate doesn’t lie. Stark was a pioneer and remains one of the few conservators to specialize in animation art. Animation cels--individual ...

Artist Zhao Lei's replica drawing of an image from the Chinese animation Three Monks. CHINA DAILY In the dimly lit corner of a modest studio, Zhao Lei leans over a large wooden desk as his fingers ...

As the world of animation rapidly shifted toward computer-generated imagery, cel animation, once the backbone of the industry, began to fade. But the memory of those vivid images on celluloid remained ...