Inside Hoggworks

By way of Andrew Young, I came across an article in the National Post, called “Puppets Ahoy!” The tagline is “Against all odds, the googly-eyed are making a cultural comeback.” It’s true, certainly, and it’s a reasonable encapsulation of some of the current spots where puppetry is blooming, but it seemed a fairly superficial rundown [...]

Watching this clip from the Muppet Show today, I’m in awe of the creative and technical aspects of it (it’s such a complicated production, and it looks so seamless!), but when I was a kid, and saw this on television, it scared the hell out of me:

Speaking as a puppeteer, I love the fact that [...]