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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: the Canada angle

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, a 1964 Rankin-Bass animated film, featured Canadian voice actors for all characters except Sam the Snowman. This choice stemmed from lower labor costs and a greater talent pool in Canada. Notable voice actors included Billie Mae Richards, Larry Mann, and Paul Soles, contributing significantly to this classic holiday film.

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Planet Joey: The Process

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Here’s a little peek behind the curtain to see how a Planet Joey comic comes together. I start out creating old school – drawing in blue pencil on paper – and finish the comic digitally, tracing over the drawing with a Wacom tablet in Adobe Photoshop.

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B.C.: A Special Christmas

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“A Special Christmas” is the animated holiday feature released in 1981 based on Johnny Hart’s comic strip “B.C.” It’s the story about two unscrupulous cavemen who think up a great scheme for Christmas that is worth checking out if you’re a fan of comics.

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What Christmas is all about

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In “Peanuts,” Linus quoted from the Gospel of Luke on December 20, 1959. His dialogue in that strip was later used in “A Charlie Brown Christmas” in a scene that Charles Schulz had to fight to include, and it became one of the special’s indelible moments.