Animation Guild | We are 839 Digital Magazine
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D E PA R T M E N T 25 KEYFRAME ANNIVERSARY ISSUE 25 In the early years, it featured Guild news along with "Exposure Sheet" gossip like in 1965 when Bob Maxfield suffered a bad sprain while leg wrestling with Gussie Moran, and Stacy Maniskas took a two-month vacation to Greece! This, of course, was when the Union was smaller, when it was easier to know everyone on a first-name basis. Still, it served its anchor purpose (which was and is a Local 839 constitutional obligation): announcing the date of each General Membership Meeting. The newsletter was published sometimes monthly and sometimes bi-monthly until 1969, when animator Jim Carmichael took over the editorship, establishing a consistent monthly schedule. He designated his first issue Volume 1, Number 1, establishing the sequencing we use to this day. Over the years, as The Pegboard continued to provide Guild news, it also offered a peek at our members' talents with its ever-changing masthead, including one by Sergio Aragones who gained fame for his MAD magazine covers. The Peg-Board, as it was called in 1960 when it began, is the longest continuously published union newsletter in Hollywood. Named after an animation dinosaur—the metal disks in a drawing table to which animators pegged their drawing paper—it has survived the move from ink and paint to digital, "runaway" productions moving overseas, and two industry strikes, steadily serving as an information hub for Animation Guild members. F E AT U R E PAST AND PRESENT Back in the day, before cut-and-paste on a computer screen, The Peg-Board used this manual paste-up method for its layout.