Old Brew ANIMANIACS DVD CONTEST! by Jerry Beck Monday July 31, 2006 9:00 am Narf! Tomorrow morning (Tuesday) we will give away a few copiesof the brand new ANIMANIACS and PINKY AND THE BRAIN dvds to …
Advertising Humans as Pixels by Amid Amidi Monday July 31, 2006 4:11 am Animator Pete Levin writes: I saw this bank commercial while in Turkey and fell in love with it. While it’s technically live …
Old Brew A Letter to Mick LaSalle by Amid Amidi Monday July 31, 2006 4:01 am Pixar story artist Jeff Pidgeon wrote a letter to SAN FRANCISCOCHRONICLE movie reviewer Mick LaSalle, in which he completely …
Old Brew Non-Surprise of the Week by Amid Amidi Monday July 31, 2006 3:58 am So, ANT BULLY tanked. The Warner Bros.-distributed, TomHanks-produced film collected a meager $8.1 million (estimate) …
Old Brew COMIC CON RECAP #3: A COMIC BOOK REVIEW by Jerry Beck Sunday July 30, 2006 11:00 am 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 …
Old Brew KING LEONARDO ON BLACK FAMILY CHANNEL by Jerry Beck Sunday July 30, 2006 9:15 am Classic cartoons (and by that I mean the wide swath of animation history from 1906 to its dying days in the 1970s) are …
Old Brew The Friz Freleng Blog-A-Thon by Amid Amidi Saturday July 29, 2006 9:27 am Brian of the Hell on Frisco Bay blog notes that August 21, 2006marks the 100th anniversary of Friz Freleng’s birth, and he’s …
Old Brew The Parade of Ignorance Continues by Amid Amidi Saturday July 29, 2006 5:21 am From Paul Johnson’s invented history of the Disney strike toMick LaSalle’s broad dismissal of a hundred years of animation …
Old Brew SUPERTHUNDERSTINGCAR by Jerry Beck Friday July 28, 2006 10:15 pm Classic bit of British comedy: Peter Cook and Dudley Moore spoof Gerry & Sylvia Anderson’s F.A.B. 1960s Supermarionation TV …
Old Brew MEDICAL TOONS by Jerry Beck Friday July 28, 2006 4:10 pm Rarely screened historic medical cartoons will be featured in afilm series this fall at the National Academies in Washington …
Old Brew Cartoon Brew Reader Survey by brewmasters Friday July 28, 2006 1:10 am We recently signed on with John Battelle’s Federated Media torepresent us for online advertising. Federated is a boutique ad …
Old Brew It’s the Wacky Squarebog Spongepants by Amid Amidi Thursday July 27, 2006 6:22 pm Old but funny…
Old Brew Real Animation Acting by Amid Amidi Thursday July 27, 2006 4:21 pm Thad Komorowski has posted three examples of animation acting -one each from Disney, WB and MGM – all created without the …
Old Brew Mick LaSalle on THE POLAR EXPRESS by Amid Amidi Thursday July 27, 2006 3:01 pm I didn’t think of doing this but somebody found Mick LaSalle’sreview of THE POLAR EXPRESS. An excerpt is below. If anything …
Old Brew Film Critics, Part II by Amid Amidi Thursday July 27, 2006 3:10 am It looks like the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE’s Mick LaSalle isn’talone when it comes to film critics who make uninformed …