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POSTS FOR “August, 2008“Cartoon Brew's home for up-to-the-minute, unedited announcements and press releases direct from industry sources.
August 4, 2008 10:09 am
(via Motionographer) 25 Comments » posted in Advertising 
August 4, 2008 8:32 am
We’re planning some major expansions to the site this fall, and we’re looking to hire a part-time ad sales rep for Cartoon Brew. If you have experience in ad sales, as it pertains to animation and film, please get in touch with Jerry (contact info here) and let him know what you do. Thanks! No Comments » posted in Site News
August 3, 2008 6:39 pm
When Scooby-Doo met Peter Max… 22 Comments » posted in Advertising, Classic
August 3, 2008 3:34 am
A short but delightful BBC special (in two parts) about British animation legend Bob Godfrey. It’s from the early-1970s. The film contains the following bit of wisdom from Godfrey: “There’s no point in doing something in animation that could be done very much quicker or much easier in live-action. Animation should deal with surreal things, with fantastic things, impossible things, because there are no limitations in animation. The only limitations there are are within the animators themselves. There’s nothing you can’t do. This is the terrifying thing about it, this is the exciting thing about it. You name it, it can be done in animation.” For a taste of his work, here is a delightful episode of the 1970s children’s series Roobarb, directed and animated by Godfrey. 10 Comments » posted in Animators, Classic, Bob Godfrey
August 3, 2008 12:05 am
The Preston Blair rip-offs never end. Mark Kausler sent us this 78rpm kiddie record cover, which proves the swiping began a lot earlier than i’d imagined:
Christian Geoghegan, on a trip to Belgium, photographed this from the window of one of the trams he took in Antwerp. The van is for a local supermarket.
If you spot a Blair swipe in your travels, we invite you to send it in. 5 Comments » posted in Animators, Cartoon Culture
August 2, 2008 1:00 pm
The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive posted this nice clip of Ralph Bakshi advising animators from the San Diego Comic Con last week. 31 Comments » posted in Animators, San Diego Comic-Con
August 2, 2008 10:00 am
Sailor Man, billed as a “darkly comic tribute to the exploits of a beloved spinach-eating seaman,” will premiere Aug. 9-22 as part of the New York International Fringe Festival. The 45-minute production, at the Lafayette Street Theater at 45 Bleecker Street, “explores what happens when familiar scenarios from cartoons are divorced from their harmless context and performed naturalistically, by complex human beings.” Created by Ryan Iverson and Scott Peterman, the show features the writers in the respective roles of Sailor Man and The Brute. Lauren Blumenfeld plays Olive. The plot of Sailor Man, according to production notes: “Two rivals — a pumped-up Navy man and a heavyset, bearded thug — repeatedly beat each other nearly to death over the affection of a fickle, skinny woman named Olive. However, when performed realistically, fists fly, blood flows, and this straightforward storyline transforms into a provocative look at how our society values violence. The end product is brutal and harsh, full of bottled-up anger and regret, and much closer in tone to Sam Shepard than the traditional Saturday morning fare.” For more information visit sailormanshow.com. (Thanks, Tim Dunleavy) 28 Comments » posted in Cartoon Culture
August 1, 2008 6:00 pm
Brew reader Paul Villaverde spotted a quick shot of me in this Xbox Comic Con ‘08 report. It’s a one minute Con preview by “Major Nelson” and I’m flashing a Popeye Vol. 1 poster at the 9-second mark. It’s stock shot of me from the 2007 Con, but hey, I’ll take any publicity I can get. |
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