AT THE ANNIE AWARDS

John received The Winsor McCay Lifetime Achievement Award. It was an unexpectedly moving event and the crowd cheered enthusiastically. Other recipients included Brad Byrd, Glen Keane and John Canemaker. Good speeches by all.


Here's John (above), looking very suave. Kali appears to be reacting to a loathesome thing crawling on the armrest.


Jerry Beck won a much-deserved special award for contributions to the industry and gave one of the better speeches of the night.


Let us take a moment to appreciate the suavity of Jim smith and Mike (above).


After the ceremony John signs autographs. Jim appears to be hooting at Kali, though he may have sucked in a passing bee.


Mike also discovers the loathesome thing, this time crawling on JoJo's jacket.


JoJo won an award for volunteer work at The ASIFA Archive.


After the ceremony Mike and I searched for our parking structure with Marjane Satrapi, director of "Persepolis." Wow! She has a magnetic personality!

At the after-awards party Mike (above) toasts an off-screen friend while Steve is lost in visionary reverie.

Here's (above) Kali, fishing what appears to be an old shoe out of John's Annie Award.

Tom Minton and Wendy (above) were there! They make a great couple! Tom's a producer but in this picture he has the brooding look of a novelist. I'll bet Kurt Vonnegut would like to have looked like this.

Why is the image (above) so blurry? Did I put my thumb on the lens?

Here (below) a passing giant asks for Tom's autograph and Tom graciously complies.