W. R. Miller
I've worked primarily in the entertainment industry as an animator, writer and storyboard artist, with two Emmy honors on The Simpsons. My articles have been published in Starlog, Comics Scene, Comics Buyer’s Guide, Animation Magazine, Animato! and the online Animation World Magazine. I have just completed the five-volume Batman: The Animated Interviews, published by BearManor Media. Works-in-progress: The Justice Dragon; The Star Wars Historical Sourcebook. Further details are presented at my webpage, https://wrmilleronline.com/about/
More Entertaining Than STAR TREK: DISCOVERY!
April 27, 2024. What’s more entertaining that Star Trek: Discovery? The comments about Star Trek: Discovery! A month ago Paramount Plus posted a trailer heralding the fifth and final season. Here are the reactions: @paweldurczok 2 weeks ago I can’t believe this got more seasons than Enterprise. 127 @Akkbar21 13 days ago corny streaming service […]
The Music of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
On May 17, 1980, BBC2 aired a documentary, STAR WARS: THE MUSIC BY JOHN WILLIAMS, which focused on the scoring of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. It has since been uploaded to YouTube for your viewing pleasure, here: Chapters: 00:00 – Intro / Production crew / A New Hope 06:05 – EMPIRE: spotting sessions 07:15 – […]
British Want List
Continuing my quest to catalog, as complete as possible, press coverage of the original Star Wars trilogy and two Ewoks movies for The Star Wars Historical Sourcebook. The following is my want list of British publications, with British Library shelf marks for reference. I need PDF files of the coverage, and I’m happy to exchange […]
Mark Mayerson’s New TRIPP
Canadian animator/storyteller Mark Mayerson has a new Harvey Tripp adventure, “Tripp to Servility,” which you can enjoy when you click here. Who is Harvey Tripp? He’s a wanna-be diplomat whose career got sidetracked when he found disfavor with Chief of Security Travis Daggett. Why? He befriended a Repton dinosaur named Granjik. Now he and Granjik […]
Brad Bird on why the Looney Tunes were successful
From Cartoon Brew, 2010, Iron Giant, The Incredibles and Ray Gunn director Brad Bird gave this observation: The “failure of every Bugs and Looney enterprise for the last twenty years” (only 20?) is caused by two very simple reasons– 1) The original cartoons were created in an environment where NO ONE WAS PAYING ATTENTION. As […]
Dragons of the Day, February 29, 2024
Well, that’s all, folks, for the end of a series. On December 14, 2023, Dreamworks Dragons: The Nine Realms, unspooled its eighth and final season on the Peacock and Hulu streamers. To its credit–literally–the show did show us what the characters looked like if they were hand-drawn, instead of the plastic-looking robot CG versions. Let’s […]
Australian Star Wars Articles, Part Four
For several years now I’ve been documenting press coverage of the classic Star Wars trilogy into a multi-volume project, The Star Wars Historical Sourcebook. This involves buying the various books, magazines, papers, comic books, etc., as well as buying through ebay and online downloads. This coverage is global, so I do what I can to […]
Australian Star Wars Articles, Part Three
For several years now I’ve been documenting press coverage of the classic Star Wars trilogy into a multi-volume project, The Star Wars Historical Sourcebook. This involves buying the various books, magazines, papers, comic books, etc., as well as buying through ebay and online downloads. This coverage is global, so I do what I can to […]
Australian Star Wars Articles, Part Two
For several years now I’ve been documenting press coverage of the classic Star Wars trilogy into a multi-volume project, The Star Wars Historical Sourcebook. This involves buying the various books, magazines, papers, comic books, etc., as well as buying through ebay and online downloads. This coverage is global, so I do what I can to […]
Australian Star Wars Articles Want List, Part One
For several years now I’ve been cataloguing press coverage of the classic Star Wars trilogy into a multi-volume project, The Star Wars Historical Sourcebook. This involves buying the various books, magazines, papers, comic books, etc., as well as buying through ebay and online downloads. This coverage is global, so I do what I can to […]
