Cartoons And Janet Klein
Thursday night, August 3rd, in a small theatre in Hollywood I will be projecting several celluloid 16mm cartoons as the “opening act” of …
Old Brew
ANIMANIACS DVD CONTEST!
Narf! Tomorrow morning (Tuesday) we will give away a few copies of the brand new ANIMANIACS and PINKY AND THE BRAIN dvds to several lucky …
A Letter to Mick LaSalle
Pixar story artist Jeff Pidgeon wrote a letter to SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE movie reviewer Mick LaSalle, in which he completely dismantled …
Non-Surprise of the Week
So, ANT BULLY tanked. The Warner Bros.-distributed, Tom Hanks-produced film collected a meager $8.1 million (estimate) from 3,050 …
COMIC CON RECAP #3: A COMIC BOOK REVIEW
I’m still going over the booty I obtained at the San Diego Comic Con last weekend. One thing I didn’t devote enough time to at the Comic …
KING LEONARDO ON BLACK FAMILY CHANNEL
Classic cartoons (and by that I mean the wide swath of animation history from 1906 to its dying days in the 1970s) are practically …
The Friz Freleng Blog-A-Thon
Brian of the Hell on Frisco Bay blog notes that August 21, 2006 marks the 100th anniversary of Friz Freleng’s birth, and he’s officially …
The Parade of Ignorance Continues
From Paul Johnson’s invented history of the Disney strike to Mick LaSalle’s broad dismissal of a hundred years of animation …
SUPERTHUNDERSTINGCAR
Classic bit of British comedy: Peter Cook and Dudley Moore spoof Gerry & Sylvia Anderson’s F.A.B. 1960s Supermarionation TV shows. …
MEDICAL TOONS
Rarely screened historic medical cartoons will be featured in a film series this fall at the National Academies in Washington DC. The …
Cartoon Brew Reader Survey
We recently signed on with John Battelle’s Federated Media to represent us for online advertising. Federated is a boutique ad rep …
It’s the Wacky Squarebog Spongepants
Old but funny…
Real Animation Acting
Thad Komorowski has posted three examples of animation acting – one each from Disney, WB and MGM – all created without the aid of …
Mick LaSalle on THE POLAR EXPRESS
I didn’t think of doing this but somebody found Mick LaSalle’s review of THE POLAR EXPRESS. An excerpt is below. If anything can be said …
Film Critics, Part II
It looks like the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE’s Mick LaSalle isn’t alone when it comes to film critics who make uninformed sweeping …
James Jarvis in LA
Tomorrow evening, July 28, illustrator/toy designer James Jarvis will be having an art show/book signing at Meltdown Comics (7522 Sunset …
1936 ARTICLE ON FLEISCHER 3-D SETS
One of my last-second purchases on Sunday, just before I left the San Diego Comic Con, was snagging this copy of the November 1936 issue …
A Monster of a Review
A prominent Pixar animator emailed me last night with the subject header “This is real” and a link to this must-read-to-believe SAN …
NEW BOOK ON STOP MOTION
Who says Stop-Motion is dead? I just got Ken Priebe’s great new book The Art of Stop-Motion Animation, and it pretty much details, step …
COMIC CON RECAP #2: BECK INTROS SMIGEL
One of the highlights of the San Diego Comic Con this year was my chance to play straight man for comic genius Robert Smigel. That’s me …
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