Weird Ice Cream Truck Drawing
Mike Kazaleh sent in this photo and asks, “I’ve been seeing this truck around my neighborhood for years, and I finally snapped a picture …
Previously on Cartoon Brew
Small World redux
Whatever your opinion of It’s A Small World (and its unforgettable – no matter how hard your try – theme song) there’s no doubt it’s a …
Step-By-Step: Creating Kid-Friendly Educational Animation
Indian animator Prosenjit Biswas walks us through his process of using Cartoon Animator 5 to create his animation projects.
Creative Bankruptcy in TV Animation
Nothing says more about the sad, pathetic, desperate, moribund state of the US TV animation industry than the fact that Seth MacFarlane …
The KidMan and Lemon Show
Cartoonist Rex Hackelberg has posted a ton of development artwork that he created for a project called The KidMan and Lemon Show. The …
The Museum
My pal Sharon Burian sent me some information on the project she just completed:I want to alert you to a short film that I recently …
A Book About Golden Books
Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children’s Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became An American Icon Along the Way is a book …
Bakshi Coonskin shirts
In the 1950s it was coonskin caps… fifty years later couturier Supreme is offering a line of Coonskin T-shirts, based on the …
Bugs vs. Daffy on Slate.com
The Brew strives to stay apolitical, but this very funny and trenchant Slate article by Jeff Greenfield is worth a mention: Bugs Bunny …
Animation Studies Vol. 2
Volume 2 (2007) of the Society for Animation Studies’ peer-reviewed on-line journal is now available for download (as a PDF or html file) …
Ghostbot Vid For No More Kings
Pete Mitchell, frontman of the band No More Kings, writes to Cartoon Brew: “i’ve checked cartoonbrew pretty much every day for the …
Art Deco In Animation Presentation
The American Cinematheque and the Art Deco Society are presenting a lecture by David Pacheco, Walt Disney Art Classics creative art …
Return of the Gremlins
Dark Horse Comics has announced a Disney Gremlins book-signing taking place next week. A special signing at the Disney Soda Fountain and …
Give-A-Show Projector
What we used to do for home entertainment before DVD and VHS tapes: (Thanks Clay Croker)
Mickey Mouse Pizza
Once again, Disney marketing has invaded the frozen food aisle. Not sure how long this has been out there, but I just discovered Mickey …
Flip #11
There is a reason I plug Steve Moore’s online FLIP magazine every month: It’s damn good! The latest edition, now up, features the amazing …
Animating From Behind Bars
Superjail is an animated series set in the cooler, but Brew reader Dominic Bisignano points out that there’s a non-profit organization …
The Colored Cartoon
I just got a copy of Christopher Lehman’s latest book, The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American Animated Short Films. …
Imagination: In Portland and On DVD
Imagination, an experimental indie feature that combines live-action with hand-drawn animation, stop-motion puppet animation, pixilation, …
The Little Island by Richard Williams
Richard Williams’s epic first animated short The Little Island (1958) has been posted online. Highly stylized, dialogueless, serious …
The Movie That Inspired John Lasseter
The UCLA Film and Television Archives has an ongoing series of screenings entitled The Movie That Inspired Me, in which leading …
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