Back in December, I wrote about the original art for the 1930s Yippy pinback button that was part of an excellent set of such buttons given away at movie theaters. Well, Heritage Auctions recently …

Even here on Scrappyland, it feels impudent to overly fixate on Cora Sue Collins’ connection to Scrappy. The former child star, who died on Sunday at 98, had a remarkable career in the 1930s and ea…

When I officially launched Scrappyland on January 21, 2005, I don’t recall having a master plan. All I knew was that—as one of my first posts argued—Scrappy mattered. Very little had been written a…

I was sorry to hear—via Mark Evanier—of the passing of Michael Schlesinger, a film fan, film preservationist, and filmmaker par excellence. Almost 20 years ago, when Mike was at Sony/Columbia, he p…

As part of my ongoing effort to polish things up around here, I recently updated Scrappyland’s Scrappy Links page—mostly by adding the wonderful Scrappy write-ups and embedded cartoons that h…

Just a quick note: After grudgingly embedding YouTube videos that included color elements—like that big red play button—I have finally figured out how to ensure they’re as monochromatic as th…

If you’re collecting vintage animation art on a budget, specializing in Scrappy will save you money. But not because Mintz art is exceptionally cheap. It’s just that so little of it eve…

Almost 16 years ago, I created a Twitter account for Scrappyland. It was never that huge a deal—all it did was post automated links to new posts on this site, and only 74 people bothered to follow …

Here’s a recent addition to the Scrappyland archive, and a pretty remarkable one: a print that Charles Mintz presumably sent out to personal friends and/or business associates in the mid-to-l…