We’re planning some major expansions to the site this fall, and we’re looking to hire a part-time ad sales rep for Cartoon Brew. If you have experience in ad sales, as it pertains to animation and film, please get in touch with Jerry (contact info here) and let him know what you do. Thanks!

When Scooby-Doo met Peter Max…

A short but delightful BBC special (in two parts) about British animation legend Bob Godfrey. It’s from the early-1970s.

The film contains the following bit of wisdom from Godfrey: “There’s no point in doing something in animation that could be done very much quicker or much easier in live-action. Animation should deal with surreal things, with fantastic things, impossible things, because there are no limitations in animation. The only limitations there are are within the animators themselves. There’s nothing you can’t do. This is the terrifying thing about it, this is the exciting thing about it. You name it, it can be done in animation.”

For a taste of his work, here is a delightful episode of the 1970s children’s series Roobarb, directed and animated by Godfrey.

The Preston Blair rip-offs never end.

Mark Kausler sent us this 78rpm kiddie record cover, which proves the swiping began a lot earlier than i’d imagined:

Christian Geoghegan, on a trip to Belgium, photographed this from the window of one of the trams he took in Antwerp. The van is for a local supermarket.

If you spot a Blair swipe in your travels, we invite you to send it in.

The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive posted this nice clip of Ralph Bakshi advising animators from the San Diego Comic Con last week.

Sailor Man, billed as a “darkly comic tribute to the exploits of a beloved spinach-eating seaman,” will premiere Aug. 9-22 as part of the New York International Fringe Festival.

The 45-minute production, at the Lafayette Street Theater at 45 Bleecker Street, “explores what happens when familiar scenarios from cartoons are divorced from their harmless context and performed naturalistically, by complex human beings.”

Created by Ryan Iverson and Scott Peterman, the show features the writers in the respective roles of Sailor Man and The Brute. Lauren Blumenfeld plays Olive.

The plot of Sailor Man, according to production notes:

“Two rivals — a pumped-up Navy man and a heavyset, bearded thug — repeatedly beat each other nearly to death over the affection of a fickle, skinny woman named Olive. However, when performed realistically, fists fly, blood flows, and this straightforward storyline transforms into a provocative look at how our society values violence. The end product is brutal and harsh, full of bottled-up anger and regret, and much closer in tone to Sam Shepard than the traditional Saturday morning fare.”

“In cartoons, when a man gets punched in the face, his neck transforms into a spring; in Sailor Man, his nose breaks and he coughs up blood and teeth and bile,” stated Iverson. “Our goal is to see how audiences react when we approach this subject matter from a dramatic angle and show them something that’s simultaneously real and ridiculous.”

For more information visit sailormanshow.com.

(Thanks, Tim Dunleavy)

Brew reader Paul Villaverde spotted a quick shot of me in this Xbox Comic Con ‘08 report. It’s a one minute Con preview by “Major Nelson” and I’m flashing a Popeye Vol. 1 poster at the 9-second mark. It’s stock shot of me from the 2007 Con, but hey, I’ll take any publicity I can get.

We mentioned this project back in March. Here’s the sample reel for Renegade’s Funny Face.