Let’s Cast the Walt Disney Biopic

Who needs the Disney Company! We’ve already got the movie poster for a biopic about Walt Disney so we may as well go ahead and cast the …

Harvey Art Show

Tonight is the opening of The Art of Harvey Comics exhibit over at the Van Eaton Gallery on Ventura Blvd. Many pieces in this exhibit are …

Ray Favata

Ray Favata (l.) with Jules Feiffer at Terrytoons My pal, Ray Favata, is the subject of a lengthy profile in this week’s Post-Star …

Pablo Ferro: the movie

Devin Roth and Dave Creek of Scatter Brain Inc. just produced a short trailer for Richard Goldgewicht’s live action/animation documentary …

Tytla’s Little Audrey?

J.J. Sedelmaier recently had a visit from John Canemaker at his studio in White Plains. J.J. sent them in with this note:”We had a chance …

Dwarf Fight by Bill Tytla

This sequence of drawings by Bill Tytla from Snow White is a reminder of what attracted me to animation in the first place. Tytla’s …

Tytla at Tempo

Here’s a neat find. Chuck Howell, curator at The Library of American Broadcasting at the University of Maryland, came across this …

Harvey Comic Art exhibit

The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will be presenting a major exhibit of Harvey Comics artwork, “From Richie Rich to Wendy the …

Animation History Round-Up #5

The animation history round-ups have become one of my favorite types of posts to do on Cartoon Brew. It is always eye-opening to see the …

Tytla animation art for sale

Bonhams & Butterfields next entertainment memorabilia auction, on Sunday December 9th, will contain animation art from the Estate of Bill …

Adrienne Tytla (1914-2006)

Howard Green sent us the sad news that Bill Tytla’s widow, Adrienne, passed away yesterday at her farm in East Lyme, CT. It was the same …

The Greatest Animation Event Ever?

Animation festivals are fine nowadays, but I can’t think of any event that could possibly compare to the Montreal Expo’s World Exhibition …

The Making of Pinocchio

Brew reader Chris Olson found an old issue of POPULAR MECHANICS with a behind-the-scenes look at the making of PINOCCHIO, and he was kind …

The Ultimate Tytla Book

Our pal, Didier Ghez, writes to us about a new limited edition book about Vladimir “Bill” Tytla. I hadn’t heard of this, but boy, does it …

PARAMOUNT CARTOONS

Asifa-Hollywood’s screening this month is for the real die-hards. I’ll be showing about a dozen 1940s-50s Paramount cartoons in 35mm …

Kneitel, Sparber & Tytla

Which one of these doesn’t belong? I can’t get over this publicity photo of Disney great Bill Tytla, with Isadore Sparber and Seymour …

The Disney Strike

Shane Glines has posted an interesting historical artifact on his CartoonRetro.com message board – a comic strip from the publication …