For almost 20 years, SPP, the annual cartoon and animation market known to many as the Seoul Promotion Plan, has been an invaluable and vital international conference and market focused on the buying and selling of animated content produced and distributed in Asia. Growing global
The Seoul Government has announced that Asia’s biggest international animation festival, SICAF 2019, will headline the upcoming Seoul Cartoon & Animation Week festivities scheduled to run July 15-21. Three separate organized and programmed events are planned, with audiences, artists and business professionals from around the
Disney XD’s senior VP and GM of programming, Marc Buhaj, announced that Season 3 of the animated series Marvel’s Spider-Man has been ordered for a spring 2020 premiere. The series follows Peter Parker as he learns to navigate life as the teenage superhero Spider-Man. Titled
Writers for young children have a nearly impossible task: to amuse both the kid being read to and the adult doing the reading. Doing one or the other is hard enough, and only a select handful of geniuses can manage both. William Steig is one.
‘Tiny Bad Wolf’ is an Italian-French co-production between Maga Animation and the Parisian Xilam. Rai Ragazzi has announced a new line-up of co-production titles, introducing the selection on the last day of Cartoons on the Bay, a festival dedicated to children’s animation and television. The
Tillie Walden is an almost shockingly young (born in 1996) comics creator who received wide attention last year for “Spinning,” a beautiful, melancholy graphic memoir about her years as a pre-teen and then teen figure skater. That book excelled in its tactful line work and
Marking the Disney-owned network’s first foray into animation, Felicia Day will executive produce a pilot based on Aminder Dhaliwal’s graphic novel ‘Woman World’ for Freeform. Freeform has announced plans to enter into animation with a new brand campaign unveiled earlier this week during its second
LOS ANGELES — Visualization studio The Third Floor has launched a new creative content collective called Story Attic. The website will feature original digital comics, illustrations, videos and short literature with science fiction and fantasy themes, designed to be quick views/reads between 3 to 10
HOLLYWOOD, CA — Netflix is adapting Nidhi Chanani’s highly acclaimed, bestselling graphic novel Pashmina into an original CG-animated musical with celebrated writer-director Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham), internationally renowned producer Ashok Amritraj, and Chadha’s long-standing writing partner, Paul Mayeda Berges. Pashmina is a fantasy and adventure story