Selling The John Alvin Art Estate Collection
By: Leslie Combemale | February 6, 2026
It’s A Peanuts Celebration & Sandy’s Retirement from Peanuts Animation!
By: Leslie Combemale | September 5, 2025
It’s very exciting to see It’s A Peanuts Celebration, such a great new limited edition, which came out on Tuesday after much consideration, work, and reworking on the part of Sandy at Sopwith and Peanuts animation director Larry Leichliter! It has so many great moments we all remember from our favorite Peanuts specials! See if
Disney’s Fantasia: History, Art, & Music of the 1940’s Classic
By: Leslie Combemale | December 6, 2024
Disney’s Fantasia, rightly, is one of the most beloved and appreciated films in Disney history. It’s a film I have loved it my whole life. My experience as a gallery owner though is that it’s also been loved by some of my favorite clients at ArtInsights. So often, the smartest and most engaged kids I
Spotlight on Scrooge McDuck: Character History and Uncle Scrooge Disney Fine Art
By: Leslie Combemale | September 5, 2024
Assuming you’re a Disney fan overall, your memories and appreciation of Scrooge McDuck, or Uncle Scrooge to his friends and family, largely depends on how old you are. Folks of the “Silent Generation”, all born before 1946, will remember him from his debut comic book in 1947, Christmas on Bear Mountain. Baby Boomers will remember
Alan Bodner: Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Mid Century Mod Art, & The Nostalgia of Classic TV
By: Leslie Combemale | June 7, 2024
So, why talk about Alan Bodner, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Mid Century Mod Art, and the nostalgia of classic TV? Because there’s NEW ART to show and discuss! YAY! As many of you know, I love nostalgia. That’s how I wound up both owning a film and animation art gallery and writing about movies. My knowledge of
Women Rocking Hollywood: Live Action Female Filmmakers and The Women of Disney Fine Art
By: Leslie Combemale | April 10, 2024
Recently, we travelled to LA for WonderCon to present the 10th Women Rocking Hollywood panel. The event is part of the other life of ArtInsights co-owner Leslie Combemale (that’s me!) as a film journalist, writing for the Motion Picture Association and on the Alliance of Women Film Journalist site. I am an enthusiastic supporter of
Welcome Home Franklin: Franklin Armstrong blog and gallery exhibit
By: Leslie Combemale | February 16, 2024
Those who’ve been reading my blog for a while, or who have collected art through ArtInsights are well aware that Franklin is my favorite HUMAN character…(Snoopy is my favorite creature, although i LOVE Woodstock!) I wrote a blog about Franklin about 3 years ago, which you can read HERE, about a lot of his history.
Welcome to ArtInsights 2.0: Our Hybrid Online & In-Person Art Gallery Model!
By: Leslie Combemale | October 31, 2023
Welcome to ArtInsights 2.0: A Hybrid Online & In-person Model! What, pray-tell, ArtInsights 2.0 look like? That’s what I’m here to lay down. First, for those of you who might want to know why we decided to close our brick and mortar gallery, here’s an article about it published in The Reston Letter, Essentially, we
BIG NEWS: ArtInsights is Going Virtual!
By: Leslie Combemale | August 10, 2023
Hi! Leslie, co-owner of ArtInsights here, making a big announcement… That’s right, after 30 years in brick and mortar, we’re moving online-ArtInsights is going virtual-we’re SO excited about it, and hope you are, too! We’ve loved being in person and face to face all this time with our framing clients, and some of our art
Friz Freleng Pink Panther, and Animation History
By: Leslie Combemale | April 20, 2023
The Artistry and Art of Beauty and the Beast
By: Leslie Combemale | January 27, 2023
10 Lesser-Known Christmas Cartoon Shorts for the Holidays
By: Leslie Combemale | November 25, 2022












