April 2: Home on the Range, produced by the
Walt Disney Company, is released.[3] It flops at box office as Disney would focus working on
CG animated feature films while suspending the traditional hand-drawn animated films for 5 years.[4]
April 28: The earliest known Eddsworld animation goes online.[7]
May
May 10:[8] Voice actor
Greg Burson is arrested after barricading himself inside his home, holding three female roommates hostage while being drunk and carrying a gun.[9][10][11]
May 11: The pilot for Invader Zim makes its debut on DVD.[12]
May 12–31:
2004 Cannes Film Festival:
Jonas Geirnaert, a young Belgian film student, sends in an unfinished animated short, Flatlife, to the festival, which promptly wins the
Jury Prize for Best Short Film. This launches his media career in Flanders.[13]
December 12:Happy Tree Friends - Winter Break movie premieres on MTV. It adds episodes 22 to 24 of Season 2. The current release date of episode 24 is wrong, because its written January 4, 2004, the current is December 15th 2003.
December 31: After 32 years, the final episode of Loeki de Leeuw airs. It was a series of stop-motion shorts which served as bumpers before and after commercial breaks on Dutch television.[34]
January 1:
Yevgeniy Migunov, Russian film director, caricaturist, illustrator, and animator (Karandash and Klyaska - Merry Hunters, Familiar Pictures), dies at age 82.[37][38]
January 8: Eddy Ryssack, Belgian comics artist and animator (Belvision), dies from a heart attack at age 75.[39]
Micheline Charest, English-born Canadian television producer (co-founder of
CINAR), dies from complications from plastic surgery at age 51.[50][51][52]
July 26:
Oğuz Aral, Turkish comics artist, animator, and film director and producer (Koca Yusuf (Yusuf the Wrestler), Direkler Arası (Theater), Bu Şehr-i İstanbul (This City Called Istanbul), Ağustos Böceği ile Karınca (The Cricket and the Ant), dies at age 68.[65]
October 25:
John Peel, English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist (voice of Announcer in the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Explode"), dies from a heart attack at age 65.[81]
November
November 9:
Ed Kemmer, American actor (model for Prince Phillip in Sleeping Beauty), dies at age 83.
^Episodes 168 through 195 did not air on television in the United States, but did air in Australia. Episodes 196 to 206 also due not air. These episodes were, however, released on DVD. Episodes 385 onwards also did not air due to low ratings for the previous episodes. However, they were released on DVD as mentioned earlier. Beginning with episode 579 in 2020, Funimation decided to release the every episode on TVoD services.
^"Mystery Meat. Director: Butch Hartman; Writer: Butch Hartman, Mark Banner, Steve Marmel.". Danny Phantom. Season 1. Episode 01. April 3, 2004.
Nickelodeon.
^Cartoon Network (August 24, 2004), Samurai Jack Says "Sayonara" with Final Four Episodes During Special Toonami Presentation on Saturday, Sept. 25 (press release)
^"Peggy DeCastro, 82, the Oldest Of the Singing DeCastro Sisters". New York Times. April 21, 2004.
Archived from the original on June 9, 2023. Retrieved April 12, 2010. Peggy DeCastro, the oldest member of the DeCastro Sisters, the Latin singing group that gained fame with the 1950s hit Teach Me Tonight and was a popular attraction at Las Vegas hotels and nightclubs for years, died here on March 6. She was 82. The cause was lung cancer, her manager, Alan Eichler, said.
^McSorley, Tom; Maheux, Anne; Meloche, Jaclyn; Sinclair, Catherine; Tovell, Rosemarie L. (2014). Alma: the life and art of Alma Duncan (1917-2004). Ottawa: Ottawa Art Gallery & Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery. p. 165.
ISBN978-1-894906-49-4.
April 2: Home on the Range, produced by the
Walt Disney Company, is released.[3] It flops at box office as Disney would focus working on
CG animated feature films while suspending the traditional hand-drawn animated films for 5 years.[4]
April 28: The earliest known Eddsworld animation goes online.[7]
May
May 10:[8] Voice actor
Greg Burson is arrested after barricading himself inside his home, holding three female roommates hostage while being drunk and carrying a gun.[9][10][11]
May 11: The pilot for Invader Zim makes its debut on DVD.[12]
May 12–31:
2004 Cannes Film Festival:
Jonas Geirnaert, a young Belgian film student, sends in an unfinished animated short, Flatlife, to the festival, which promptly wins the
Jury Prize for Best Short Film. This launches his media career in Flanders.[13]
December 12:Happy Tree Friends - Winter Break movie premieres on MTV. It adds episodes 22 to 24 of Season 2. The current release date of episode 24 is wrong, because its written January 4, 2004, the current is December 15th 2003.
December 31: After 32 years, the final episode of Loeki de Leeuw airs. It was a series of stop-motion shorts which served as bumpers before and after commercial breaks on Dutch television.[34]
January 1:
Yevgeniy Migunov, Russian film director, caricaturist, illustrator, and animator (Karandash and Klyaska - Merry Hunters, Familiar Pictures), dies at age 82.[37][38]
January 8: Eddy Ryssack, Belgian comics artist and animator (Belvision), dies from a heart attack at age 75.[39]
Micheline Charest, English-born Canadian television producer (co-founder of
CINAR), dies from complications from plastic surgery at age 51.[50][51][52]
July 26:
Oğuz Aral, Turkish comics artist, animator, and film director and producer (Koca Yusuf (Yusuf the Wrestler), Direkler Arası (Theater), Bu Şehr-i İstanbul (This City Called Istanbul), Ağustos Böceği ile Karınca (The Cricket and the Ant), dies at age 68.[65]
October 25:
John Peel, English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist (voice of Announcer in the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Explode"), dies from a heart attack at age 65.[81]
November
November 9:
Ed Kemmer, American actor (model for Prince Phillip in Sleeping Beauty), dies at age 83.
^Episodes 168 through 195 did not air on television in the United States, but did air in Australia. Episodes 196 to 206 also due not air. These episodes were, however, released on DVD. Episodes 385 onwards also did not air due to low ratings for the previous episodes. However, they were released on DVD as mentioned earlier. Beginning with episode 579 in 2020, Funimation decided to release the every episode on TVoD services.
^"Mystery Meat. Director: Butch Hartman; Writer: Butch Hartman, Mark Banner, Steve Marmel.". Danny Phantom. Season 1. Episode 01. April 3, 2004.
Nickelodeon.
^Cartoon Network (August 24, 2004), Samurai Jack Says "Sayonara" with Final Four Episodes During Special Toonami Presentation on Saturday, Sept. 25 (press release)
^"Peggy DeCastro, 82, the Oldest Of the Singing DeCastro Sisters". New York Times. April 21, 2004.
Archived from the original on June 9, 2023. Retrieved April 12, 2010. Peggy DeCastro, the oldest member of the DeCastro Sisters, the Latin singing group that gained fame with the 1950s hit Teach Me Tonight and was a popular attraction at Las Vegas hotels and nightclubs for years, died here on March 6. She was 82. The cause was lung cancer, her manager, Alan Eichler, said.
^McSorley, Tom; Maheux, Anne; Meloche, Jaclyn; Sinclair, Catherine; Tovell, Rosemarie L. (2014). Alma: the life and art of Alma Duncan (1917-2004). Ottawa: Ottawa Art Gallery & Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery. p. 165.
ISBN978-1-894906-49-4.