Christmas shopping in not my favorite pass time. I`m in the mall, in a bath boutique, looking for ideas for my wife. I am wearing my promo T-shirt for Kevin Altieri`s Crucial Comics unsold animation pilot of Rat Bastard. The sales girl says she likes the shirt. I say it is from an animation by a friend of mine. And long/short she is an animation student at Laguna College of Art and Design a school I will be teaching at in January.

Next, over to the art supply store down the street from the mall and the guy behind the counter is an illustration student at Cal State Fullerton, a school I am teaching at now. A couple of weeks back and I am talking about Stop Motion at Woodbury University and one of my old students walks in.

I have been teaching animation for only 10 years. What must it be like for Corny Cole? A man who has taught everywhere and everyone. I would guess 60 to 70% of the animators in the industry have had him as a teacher. What a good choice for a Winsor McCay Award. What an important career creating other careers. Congratulations Mr. Cole, you earned it and then some.  ¶ 2:35 PM