Not to dissapoint anyone by taking a brief break from news writing to tend to site changes - I found some great stuff to read through. Famous Monsters of Filmland is a magazine that used to promote stop motion and hand craft film arts for many years. Phil Kim who is now running the new web site and online version of the magazine plans to promote stop motion into the digital age according to what he has said.

Phil is also promoting Ray Harryhausens 90th birthday by creating some festival/convention of sorts. But for now, it is hard to get information from their site about it. It is all being spoken about quietly but the promotion isnt really out in the open just yet.

There are three really good articles on the FM web site commemorating some of stop motions biggest stars, and the hardest working guys behind the scenes. You can read all three below:

Phil Tippett
Jim Aupperle
Harry Walton