Devon Baxter
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Film Restoration Artist - Animation Historian - Video Editor.
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Devon Baxter
@devonbaxter.bsky.social
· Dec 22
Happy holidays to you all! As a special Yuletide gift, here’s a peek into my upcoming digital e-booklet, “Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies: 1945”! A lot of wonderful folks have helped make this come alive. I promise you, it'll be worth it for you cartoon fans...
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Hard to believe it's been 10 years since Clay Martin Croker passed away. It still hurts like it happened yesterday. A truly talented actor, artist and a human being. R.I.P. Clay. We miss you!
Remembering C. Martin Croker - The SGC2C Onslaught 1994 to 98
YouTube video by Tom Roche
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September 17, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Hard to believe it's been 10 years since Clay Martin Croker passed away. It still hurts like it happened yesterday. A truly talented actor, artist and a human being. R.I.P. Clay. We miss you!
Love it!
September 13, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Love it!
I found this at a collectibles shop in Wildwood, NJ. Adding this evil motherfucker to the collection, for sure.
September 12, 2026 at 5:03 AM
I found this at a collectibles shop in Wildwood, NJ. Adding this evil motherfucker to the collection, for sure.
Popular Roaring Twenties tune “Nagasaki” on the soundtrack—its opening lyrics are “Hot ginger and dynamite…”
My all-time favorite piece(s) of Chuck Jones' animation, whose talents as an *animator* are really undersung. There's soooo much I could gush over with the technique in both actual movement and character acting, but, most importantly, it's funny!!!
September 10, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Popular Roaring Twenties tune “Nagasaki” on the soundtrack—its opening lyrics are “Hot ginger and dynamite…”
Animator/director par excellence Bob Jaques has a new video podcast! Looking forward to more!
Bob Clampett's Exercise in Power and Weight?
YouTube video by Classic Cartoon-ology
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September 9, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Animator/director par excellence Bob Jaques has a new video podcast! Looking forward to more!
Labor Day BBQ.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Flash Frying a Cow
YouTube video by Jihad Boardingham
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September 7, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Labor Day BBQ.
Mike Lah!
Ol Doc Donkey in the MGM cartoon Innertube Antics (1944)
September 5, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Mike Lah!
My favorite WB cartoon-maker?
Tex. Friz. Chuck. Clampett. Tashlin. McKimson. Even the interim directors like Davis & McCabe. Their directorial flourishes all played a vital role in LT&MM’s powerful track record in the era of theatrical animated shorts. So yes, it’s hard for me to rank or decide.
Tex. Friz. Chuck. Clampett. Tashlin. McKimson. Even the interim directors like Davis & McCabe. Their directorial flourishes all played a vital role in LT&MM’s powerful track record in the era of theatrical animated shorts. So yes, it’s hard for me to rank or decide.
September 5, 2026 at 1:56 AM
My favorite WB cartoon-maker?
Tex. Friz. Chuck. Clampett. Tashlin. McKimson. Even the interim directors like Davis & McCabe. Their directorial flourishes all played a vital role in LT&MM’s powerful track record in the era of theatrical animated shorts. So yes, it’s hard for me to rank or decide.
Tex. Friz. Chuck. Clampett. Tashlin. McKimson. Even the interim directors like Davis & McCabe. Their directorial flourishes all played a vital role in LT&MM’s powerful track record in the era of theatrical animated shorts. So yes, it’s hard for me to rank or decide.
At last, Thunderbean Animation’s newest collection is finally finished! Steve Stanchfield has gathered the Rainbow Parades, produced at the Van Beuren Corporation in NYC, from the best surviving 35mm Technicolor materials.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3S4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3S4...
Rainbow Parades Volume 2 Preview CC
YouTube video by Steve Stanchfield
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September 3, 2026 at 2:50 PM
At last, Thunderbean Animation’s newest collection is finally finished! Steve Stanchfield has gathered the Rainbow Parades, produced at the Van Beuren Corporation in NYC, from the best surviving 35mm Technicolor materials.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3S4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3S4...
Not many people have gone over this, but the concentric circles of LT&MM's main title sequences are supposed to resemble a bandshell.
September 3, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Not many people have gone over this, but the concentric circles of LT&MM's main title sequences are supposed to resemble a bandshell.
I, too, am extremely frustrated that the prices of external hard drives have increased by 200% this year alone, due to the demands of AI data centers. It’s rumored that prices aren’t expected to drop until at least late 2027 or early 2028. Fan-fucking-tastic.
September 2, 2026 at 7:38 PM
I, too, am extremely frustrated that the prices of external hard drives have increased by 200% this year alone, due to the demands of AI data centers. It’s rumored that prices aren’t expected to drop until at least late 2027 or early 2028. Fan-fucking-tastic.
Since folks are posting their favorite LT bits, here's one of mine - a real double whammy by writer Warren Foster and director Bob McKimson. (BIRTH OF A NOTION, 1947.)
September 2, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Since folks are posting their favorite LT bits, here's one of mine - a real double whammy by writer Warren Foster and director Bob McKimson. (BIRTH OF A NOTION, 1947.)
COYOTE v ACME just made me think of this bit from the TV show NEW GIRL.
August 31, 2026 at 3:42 AM
COYOTE v ACME just made me think of this bit from the TV show NEW GIRL.
Got this at the Punk Rock Flea Market—I couldn’t say no…
August 29, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Got this at the Punk Rock Flea Market—I couldn’t say no…
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Barnyard Bunk (1932)
August 28, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Barnyard Bunk (1932)
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This is a bad week. Here’s an amazing scene of Tim Curry in Freakazoid:
August 26, 2026 at 4:26 PM
This is a bad week. Here’s an amazing scene of Tim Curry in Freakazoid:
The final weeks of summer are here, so let’s join Mickey, Minnie, Horace, Clarabelle, and Pluto by the beautiful sea in this animator breakdown of 1931’s THE BEACH PARTY! (Patrons at the $5 level and up can view the video, and non-subscribers can purchase the post for $5.)
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August 25, 2026 at 5:03 PM
The final weeks of summer are here, so let’s join Mickey, Minnie, Horace, Clarabelle, and Pluto by the beautiful sea in this animator breakdown of 1931’s THE BEACH PARTY! (Patrons at the $5 level and up can view the video, and non-subscribers can purchase the post for $5.)
This hits me right in the childhood.
To grasp how old SpongeBob is, when it began airing on Nickelodeon:
- Every Nicktoon that came before still got regular reruns
- Looney Tunes still played on the channel
- Gullah Gullah Island and Little Bear were still part of Nick Jr.
- The flagship program for Nick at Nite was The Brady Bunch
- Every Nicktoon that came before still got regular reruns
- Looney Tunes still played on the channel
- Gullah Gullah Island and Little Bear were still part of Nick Jr.
- The flagship program for Nick at Nite was The Brady Bunch
August 23, 2026 at 2:34 AM
This hits me right in the childhood.
My good friend Don M. Yowp sets the record straight on Friz’s birthday which turns out *wasn’t* yesterday.
August 22, 2026 at 5:49 AM
My good friend Don M. Yowp sets the record straight on Friz’s birthday which turns out *wasn’t* yesterday.
From 1942's LIGHTS FANTASTIC, directed by birthday boy Friz Freleng.
August 21, 2026 at 4:27 PM
From 1942's LIGHTS FANTASTIC, directed by birthday boy Friz Freleng.
Ed Love!
Donald Duck makes a Three Stooges sound.
August 20, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Ed Love!