Jackson Murphy

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Jackson Murphy is an Emmy-winning film critic, content producer, and author, who has also served as Animation Scoop reporter since 2016. He is the creator of the website Lights-Camera-Jackson.com, and has made numerous appearances on television and radio over the past 20 years.

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Events

These are some of the Saturday animation highlights for SDCC@Home: Appropriately, the first virtual panel of the day was Warner Archive’s “Secret Origins of Saturday Morning Cartoons”. Animation Historian Jerry Beck talked about Saturday Morning’s early days. “First of all, when they made cartoons like Ruff and Reddy in the 1950s, they were actually thinking […]

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Events

San Diego Comic-Con @HOME is in full swing. Here are the highlights of some of the major animation-related virtual panels from Friday: With Warner Bros., Cartoon Network and Adult Swim animation content all under the HBO Max umbrella, the streaming service is assembling quite a lineup. But instead of debuting new clips or making major […]

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Animation virtual panels for San Diego Comic-Con @HOME kicked-off today. All of the conversations were streamed on YouTube. These are some the highlights: The new hand-drawn animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks was part of the core ST Comic-Con presentation. Lower Decks comes from creator, executive producer and showrunner Mike McMahan, who moderated this portion […]

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HBO Max

Joining the HBO Max lineup this Thursday July 23rd is the new Cartoon Network-produced animated series Tig n’ Seek. It’s about an eight-year-old boy, a cat and their quirky co-workers at the Department of Lost & Found. Myke Chilian not only provides the fun as show creator, but also as the voice of the main […]

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Netflix

Over the past several years, I’ve been following the saga of Animal Crackers, a new all-star animated film that’s finally being released this Friday July 24th. Directors Tony Bancroft and Scott Christian Sava discuss making the fun feature, assembling the tremendous cast, asking for special permission from the band Queen… and how Netflix came-in for […]

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