Michael Lyons

Editor

Michael Lyons is a freelance writer, specializing in film, television, and pop culture. He is the author of the book, Drawn to Greatness: Disney’s Animation Renaissance, which chronicles the amazing growth at the Disney animation studio in the 1990s. In addition to Animation Scoop and Cartoon Research, he has contributed to Remind Magazine, Cinefantastique, Animation World Network and Disney Magazine. He also writes a blog, Screen Saver: A Retro Review of TV Shows and Movies of Yesteryear and his interviews with a number of animation legends have been featured in several volumes of the books, Walt’s People. You can visit Michael’s web site Words From Lyons at: Words From Lyons at: www.wordsfromlyons.com

Articles By Michael Lyons

Bugging Out: The 25th Anniversary of “James and the Giant Peach”

James and the Giant Peach, created through the hand-crafted art of stop-motion animation, debuted just five months after Toy Story, the blockbuster computer-animated feature that signaled a shift coming for the industry. At the time, the world was looking more toward the bright and shiny technology of computer-generated imagery on the horizon. In a 1996 […]

Gold Standard: Oscar-Winning Animated Short Subjects Celebrating Anniversaries

Good things, small packages. It is true for animated short subjects, especially those nominated for and who have won the Academy Award. Like everything else globally, this Sunday’s Academy award ceremony looked much different this year. Thankfully, the tradition of celebrating animated short subjects will continue, as it has since the first year the Academy […]

Animation of “Note”: The 75th Anniversary of Disney’s “Make Mine Music”

There’s a caricature of Walt Disney that a Studio artist did during the 1940s. In it, Walt is sitting at a table looking exhausted, with his head supported in his hand, cigarette hanging from his mouth, eyebrow arched, he is staring off in the distance, trying to process, and he looks completely exhausted. The caricature […]

Monster Match: Godzilla and King Kong Get Animated

It’s been a match made in Monster Movie heaven. Fans have eagerly awaited Godzilla vs. Kong since its debut on March 31 (in theaters and HBO Max). The film has also divided these devotees into two camps: “Team Kong” or “Team Godzilla.” No matter where your loyalty may lie, there’s no denying that it’s fun […]

Hare Apparent: The 10th Anniversary of “Hop”

When Hop opened in 2011, film critic Nick Schager in The Village Voice said that the film was “…just demented enough to deliver a fleeting sugar rush.” A perfect summation of Hop, the comedy from Illumination Entertainment, (the animation studio behind such films as the Despicable Me franchise), which looked to put a hip spin […]

Michael Lyons

Editor

Articles By Michael Lyons

Bugging Out: The 25th Anniversary of “James and the Giant Peach”

Gold Standard: Oscar-Winning Animated Short Subjects Celebrating Anniversaries

Animation of “Note”: The 75th Anniversary of Disney’s “Make Mine Music”

Monster Match: Godzilla and King Kong Get Animated

Hare Apparent: The 10th Anniversary of “Hop”

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