Shorts The Brilliant Conclusion of Octocat by Amid Amidi Tuesday September 9, 2008 11:12 am Below is the stunningly brilliant conclusion of the onlineanimated series Octocat. When I posted the first episode …
Classic Warner Club News #2 by Jerry Beck Tuesday September 9, 2008 12:05 am Another great photo op from the pages of The Warner Club News(December 1961). Mel Blanc and Elmer Bernstein! Blanc is still …
Books Searle and Disney by Amid Amidi Monday September 8, 2008 2:05 pm No particular reason that I’m posting this photo other than I’ve never seen it before and figured it’d be fun to share with …
Internet/Blogs Classic Cartoon blog round-up by Jerry Beck Monday September 8, 2008 2:00 pm Some of my favorite blogs have just posted some unusual posts of interest, all worth a look. Back in December, Don Brockway …
Internet/Blogs Holland Animation Festival Announces Web Competition by Amid Amidi Monday September 8, 2008 1:52 pm There are still some retrograde film festivals that penalizefilmmakers for putting their films online, but progressive …
Classic Warner Club News #1 by Jerry Beck Sunday September 7, 2008 7:30 pm This is an excerpt from an issue of Warner Club News, thestudio’s in house magazine, from February 1958. Each issue had a …
Shorts Dr. Kill and Mr. Chance by Jerry Beck Saturday September 6, 2008 12:05 am This is rather bizarre, but leave it to the French. A currentproject out of Paris, Reality Toon, is an homage to classic …
Cartoon Culture The Daily Show’s Foghorn Leghorn and Droopy by Jerry Beck Friday September 5, 2008 12:00 pm Jon Stewart made a very funny comparison of some of our currentpoliticians to a pair of cartoon favorites on Comedy …
Site News Welcome to Cartoon Brew 2.5 by brewmasters Friday September 5, 2008 12:38 am Welcome to our updated look. As the title of this post implies,this is not a complete overhaul. Rather it’s a refresh of the …
Shorts Mike Grimshaw’s Quiet Please by Amid Amidi Thursday September 4, 2008 4:31 pm As a response to YouTube’s takedown of Signe Baumane’s animatedshort, Canadian animation director Mike Grimshaw has posted …
Feature Film Screening Waltz With Bashir by Jerry Beck Thursday September 4, 2008 10:00 am Today’s L.A. Times features a story on Waltz With Bashir, thesure-to-be-controversial animated feature from Israel, being …
Animators Bill Melendez 1916-2008 by Jerry Beck Wednesday September 3, 2008 4:00 pm Bill Melendez, the Mexican-born American character animator,film director, and film producer, best known for his animation …
Cartoon Culture Wallace & Gromit in The Right Trousers by Amid Amidi Wednesday September 3, 2008 1:01 pm British department store Harvey Nichols has concocted abrilliant advertising campaign starring Wallace and Gromit. It …
Internet/Blogs YouTube’s Inconsistent Standards for Animation Art by Amid Amidi Wednesday September 3, 2008 10:07 am Award-winning filmmaker Signe Baumane writes to tell me thatyesterday somebody flagged her one-minute short The Very First …
Feature Film Trailers From Hell: Dirty Duck by Jerry Beck Wednesday September 3, 2008 12:05 am Last year Joe Dante (Looney Tunes Back In Action) established aterrific website called Trailers From Hell, featuring audio …