Essential 80s Cartoon Logos and Title Screens
Not only am I a professed lover of the 80s, and in particular 80s era cartoons and animation, but...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Nov 25, 2017 | 80s TV, Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 4 |
Not only am I a professed lover of the 80s, and in particular 80s era cartoons and animation, but...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jun 22, 2012 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 2 |
I’ve been on a kick lately going through my collection of ephemera and animation cels looking for my favorite stuff to pull out and frame. I recently converted our office into the true Branded HQ and archive, and for the...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Aug 10, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 13 |
So I recently caught the first couple episodes of the newly relaunched ThunderCats cartoon and it got me in the mood to break out the first season of the original show on DVD and watch a bunch of episodes. Sort of like the...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jul 28, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 5 |
So, picking up from where I left off last week when discussing some of the things that jumped out at me while re-watching the 1st season of the original Transformers cartoon, there were a lot of things that I didn’t...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jul 20, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 7 |
I’ve spent the last five years building a library of cartoons on DVD and sometimes I fear that I get too caught up in acquiring new series and not spending nearly enough time actually sitting down and watching them. ...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Mar 30, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 0 |
Before I step away from the Spiral Zone for awhile I thought I’d talk about another interesting angle this series took with its advertising and marketing. Though the Spiral Zone franchise had its share of...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Mar 23, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 2 |
The end of the 80s really was a time of transition for me, not so much in that the decade was coming to a close, but because there were a lot of changes in my life. Id just turned thirteen and most of the family was...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Mar 10, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 3 |
More or less, the tone that I try and keep here at Branded is one of an earnest optimism. Personally I find a bit tedious to read articles filled with ranting and too much mockery, and when it comes down to it, it’s...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | May 19, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 4 |
As I mentioned in the first part of the discussion on the Silverhawks cartoon, there isn’t a whole heck of a lot going on in the first two-part origin story. Peter Lawrence delivered a pretty bare-bones story that...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | May 17, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 3 |
I realized the other day that while I’ve been making a concerted effort to make my way through piles of magazines, books, and other vintage papers top share on Branded, I haven’t really made a dent in my cartoon...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Apr 29, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 2 |
After reading Adam Eisenberg’s Thundarr article from a 1980 issue of Fantastic magazine earlier in the week, I’ve been thinking a lot about the issue of violence and marketing in cartoons, and the whole debacle of...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Apr 27, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 2 |
I found some time this weekend and scanned another Thundarr the Barbarian article. This one comes from an issue of Fantastic from 1980, though for the life of me I can’t remember which month. It was written by Adam...
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