ASIFA-East Award Winners
The winners have been announced for America’s longest continually-running animation award–the 39th ASIFA-East Animation Festival. The …
Previously on Cartoon Brew
Big Pecker’s
As a follow up to my Major Woody post (below), Steve Moore submitted this outrageous example of potential trademark infringement from …
A Look At Basque Animated Productions Presenting At Annecy 2024
The Basque projects at Annecy this year are a fantastic example of the region’s ambitions.
Major Woody
Q: What do you get if you combine Jessica Rabbit and Winnie Woodpecker? A: The logo for Major Woody’s Bar in downtown Columbus, …
Walt and El Grupo
Karl Cohen (president of ASIFA-San Francisco) just sent us his first impressions of Walt and El Grupo the new film by Ted Thomas, which I …
ASIFA-East Awards
Tomorrow night in Manhattan is the big event. And there is still time to get tickets and a good seat. And it’s FREE! Hobnob with the …
Finding Technicolor
This image just makes me smile. Shirt.woot, a website devoted to offering tee shirts with unique designs, had this doozy up the other …
PerfectLand by Ben Meinhardt
PerfectLand is an oddly appealing series of Flash-animated shorts created for MTV by Ben Meinhardt. I’ve embedded the first one below and …
Final Jeopardy–Katzenberg Style
The second contestant’s answer on this “Final Jeopardy” question is quite possibly one of the worst answers I’ve ever heard on a …
An Academy panel on Production Design
This note just in from Bill Kroyer: I think this would be of interest to some of your readers: I’m hosting a public program at the …
Cartoon Culture: Popeye Soap
In North America, more kids think of Popeye as a Fried Chicken resturant chain. In Chile, Popeye represents a bar of soap. Brew reader …
Cartoon Culture: A WB Store in China
Nostalgic for a Looney Tunes fix? Need a new Scooby Doo tumbler or a Tweety and Sylvester bookend? Brew reader Michael Levine and his …
Lucky Rabbit Feet
As we cartoon fanboys anxiously await a big Disney Oswald merchandising blitz, it’s a bit disheartening to learn that one initial line of …
Bugs Hardaway WWI letters found
Unusual article in today’s L.A. Daily News about a cache of letters dating from 1918, sent by future animation director (Woody Woodpecker …
NEXT MONDAY IN NYC: Avery and Maltese Tribute
I was bummed that I missed the centennial tribute to Tex Avery and Michael Maltese that was presented in LA last March, but I just …
Animation Book Look
Move over, UCLA Festival of Books and BookExpo America. The 2nd annual Animation Book Look is the place to be. The Creative Talent …
Pictoplasma NYC in September
Pictoplasma is moving its conference on contemporary character design from Berlin to NYC this year. The two-day event will take place …
NY Times on The Censored 11
An article in today’s NY Times on the shocking proliferation of racist cartoons on You Tube has had an (unintended?) effect in further …
Mutt and Jeff being preserved
Among a cache of recently discovered American silent films from 1912-1927 was one cartoon, Mutt and Jeff in On Strike (1920). It, along …
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