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ANNIE AWARD NOMINEES

The nominees for the 34th Annual Annie Awards have been announced.
The complete list is posted here. Here’s a sampling of some of the …

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SID RAYMOND 1909-2006

by Jerry Beck   Sunday December 3, 2006   12:25 pm

Mark Evanier is the first to note the passing of my friend Sid
Raymond. Raymond was best known as the voice of Baby Huey and …

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Classic Animation on Flickr

by Amid Amidi   Sunday December 3, 2006   7:41 am

Today marks the launch of the Animation History Archive on
Flickr, a new group I started where we can all share interesting …

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CEREAL:GEEK

by Jerry Beck   Saturday December 2, 2006   11:15 pm

Not my favorite decade for animation, but James Eatock of Busta
Toons Productions (the folks behind the He Man/She Ra blog) …

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ONE GOT FAT

by Amid Amidi   Saturday December 2, 2006   10:29 am

It’s been a Ralph Hulett kind of week around here. First it was
his Christmas cards, now here’s a link to ONE GOT FAT, a …

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BEWITCHED

by Jerry Beck   Saturday December 2, 2006   7:45 am

Here is everything you ever wanted to know about BEWITCHED – the
1964-1972 ABC TV comedy series about a regular guy who …

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DISNEY LAYS OFF 160

by Jerry Beck   Saturday December 2, 2006   7:30 am

Hmmm… the trade papers usually don’t post new stories over the
weekend. Here’s one that popped up this morning in The …

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BREWSTER ROCKIT

by Jerry Beck   Friday December 1, 2006   8:53 pm

Brewster Rockit is a very funny sci-fi parody comic strip
running in the L.A. Times and many other papers accross the …

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BREW HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: ANIMATED SOVIET PROPAGANDA

by Amid Amidi   Friday December 1, 2006   3:05 am

The fourth in a series of holiday gift-giving suggestions from
your pals at Cartoon Brew. If you pick up one dvd of …

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Brew Holiday Gift Guide: Terr’ble Thompson

by Jerry Beck   Thursday November 30, 2006   10:50 am

The third in a series of holiday gift-giving suggestions from
your pals at Cartoon Brew. The self proclaimed “most obscure …

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BLIP

by Jerry Beck   Thursday November 30, 2006   7:35 am

I came across this commercial for BLIP, the digital game, while
I was transfering to DVD some cartoon shows I taped in 1980. …

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ONE BAD NOTE

by Amid Amidi   Thursday November 30, 2006   6:20 am

Have you ever wondered what Chuck Jones’s HIGH NOTE (1960) would
look like if it was remade in CG? Well, neither have I, but …

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A Ralph Hulett Christmas

by Amid Amidi   Thursday November 30, 2006   2:55 am

While Eyvind Earle is the best known of the Disney artists who
illustrated Christmas cards, a number of other Disney artists …

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Disney in South America Documentary

by Amid Amidi   Thursday November 30, 2006   2:46 am

In the second part of Ward Jenkins’s terrific John Canemaker
interview, Canemaker reveals a project he recently contributed …

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MINGY PUSS

by Jerry Beck   Wednesday November 29, 2006   10:30 pm

Either Makinita (a.k.a. independent cartoonist Andres Silva, in
Ecuador) is a demented genius – or just demented. You …