Classic Mel Brooks Talks About Ernest Pintoff’s “The Critic” by Amid Amidi Thursday May 23, 2013 12:59 am The clip above is an animation-related outtake from the new MelBrooks documentary Make a Noise which debuted earlier this …
Events Anifilm Festival Announces In-Competition Films and UPA Tribute by Amid Amidi Friday April 5, 2013 12:09 pm The 4th edition of Anifilm International Festival of AnimatedFilms will take place in Třeboň, Czech Republic from May 3 to …
Site News Cartoon Brew Upgrades to Disqus Commenting System by Amid Amidi Tuesday January 22, 2013 2:27 pm Earlier this week, we upgraded our commenting system to thewidely used Disqus. Certain aspects of our commenting system …
Animators What’s Next for Genndy Tartakovsky? by Jerry Beck Tuesday October 2, 2012 12:05 am I spotted this poster on the wall during a visit to SonyAnimation last week: With Hotel Transylvannia number #1 …
Animators Bob Clampett’s Poem to Friz Freleng, 1965 by Jerry Beck Monday September 3, 2012 12:00 pm On April 5th 1965, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts andSciences bestowed an Oscar to Friz Freleng for Best Animated …
Illustration “Far Out Isn’t Far Enough” NSFW trailer by Jerry Beck Monday August 13, 2012 12:05 am Here’s one documentary I look forward to seeing: Rick Cikowskiand Brad Bernstein’s Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi …
Animators Happy Birthday, Gene Deitch! by brewmasters Wednesday August 8, 2012 4:03 pm Happy birthday from Jerry and Amid to the one and only GeneDeitch who turns 88 today! A true legend and someone we are …
Feature Film Deitch’s Unproduced “Charlottes Web” by Jerry Beck Monday May 14, 2012 12:05 am If you ever hated (or loved) the Hanna Barbera feature lengthCharlotte’s Web (1973), you owe it to yourself read the latest …
Events LACMA: Paramount Cartoons and Oskar Fischinger by Jerry Beck Tuesday April 24, 2012 11:30 pm Thursday and Friday this week, The Los Angeles County Museum ofArt (LACMA) is running two great evenings of animated art. …
Events Mark your calendar: 3 Animation Events in LA by Jerry Beck Sunday April 15, 2012 5:00 pm Three, count ‘em Three (3), animation events hosted by yourstruly, all within a week of each other and coming up soon. …
Comics Kim Deitch: “Leaping Tall Buildings” by Jerry Beck Saturday April 7, 2012 6:00 am Worth a look: Kim Deitch (veteran underground cartoonist and son of animation director Gene Deitch) talks about his comics …
Events LACMA in April: Alice, Fischinger and Paramount Cartoons by Jerry Beck Friday April 6, 2012 2:30 pm The spectacular sold out UPA program at the Los Angeles CountyMuseum of Art (LACMA) last week marked the beginning of even …
Events FRIDAY in L.A: UPA at LACMA by Jerry Beck Tuesday March 27, 2012 11:00 am To celebrate the publication of Adam Abraham’s essential new UPA history, When Magoo Flew and the just-released TCM/Sony DVD set,
Site News 2012 So Far… by brewmasters Monday March 12, 2012 11:30 am Through the first 70 days of 2012, we’re averaging 2.8 posts per day on Cartoon Brew’s homepage. That’s not counting all the …
Advertising Bert & Harry Piel by Jerry Beck Saturday January 21, 2012 1:00 pm Just for fun – and thanks to Chuck Howell, the Archivist atUniversity of Maryland’s Special Collections in Mass Media & …