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I'm sure the restorations will look great. These cartoons had great color and backgrounds.

All old films require a certain amount of historical context to appreciate. But that isn't what I'm talking about. The line I draw on this stuff is between racial and racist. And to me, the difference is when a race of people is depicted as subhuman, inhuman monsters or worthy of death...

Nope. I'm happy to get Famous Popeyes on blu-ray. (And the Fleischers too.) I preordered on the first day, and I've told all the artists I'm mentoring about it. I just don't think it's worth risking the future of the whole series on one pretty lousy cartoon. I've seen how the news grabs onto...

Have you seen Popeye Ala Mode? It's a public domain cartoon and I would post a link to it here, but it would certainly be deleted as fast as I posted it. You can google it. It's probably the ugliest cartoon in the whole Popeye library. At least You're A Sap Mr Jap had the excuse of being wartime...

Popeye Ala Mode was in the Cartoon Network library, but I don't think they ever aired it. I suspect that this set isn't getting a lot of scrutiny by Warner legal. It's entirely possible that after this is released, some news service will pick up the story about racist cartoons being released by...