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 …
Previously on Cartoon Brew
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 …
‘Big Mouth’ Creator Nick Kroll In Conversation With Cartoon Brew
For a special FYC discussion, we spoke with the co-creator of Netflix’s longest-running adult animated series.
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 …
An Academy Tribute to Tex Avery and Michael Maltese
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will pay tribute to Tex Avery and Michael Maltese, both born a century ago in early 1908, …
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