Old Brew SUPER SATURDAY, PART DEUX by Jerry Beck Tuesday September 6, 2005 8:49 am After seeing our previous post on the ABC SUPER SATURDAY CLUB,J.J. Sedelmaier comes clean with his past transgressions by …
Old Brew Unsung Heros of Animation by Amid Amidi Tuesday September 6, 2005 5:10 am I can count all the great books about modern independentanimation on one hand…hell, probably on one finger, because …
Old Brew MEDIA ALERT: JUNE FORAY ON LARRY KING by Jerry Beck Monday September 5, 2005 9:23 pm I sat with June Foray at the CINECON banquet last night inHollywood. I’m not trying to name drop, but I wanted to pass …
Old Brew SUPER SATURDAY CLUB by Jerry Beck Sunday September 4, 2005 11:01 am ABC’s Saturday morning cartoon line-up in 1969 must representthe pinnacle of low budget, cheapjack, crap-tacular TV cartoon …
Old Brew MATINEE MOUSE by Jerry Beck Sunday September 4, 2005 10:15 am When is a theatrical release not a theatrical release?As someone who is monitoring U.S. theatrical animated releases – for …
Old Brew SEPTEMBER GARAGE SALE by Jerry Beck Sunday September 4, 2005 9:35 am My garage sale continues with some obscure pencil original artfrom Van Beuren and Lantz studios.
Old Brew Even Mr. Bill Knew the Levees Wouldn’t Hold by Amid Amidi Saturday September 3, 2005 1:28 am A couple days ago on GOOD MORNING, AMERICA, President Bush said, “I don’t think anyone could have anticipated the breach of …
Old Brew Gabe Swarr’s Value Meal by Amid Amidi Friday September 2, 2005 4:26 am Animation director-designer Gabe Swarr has launched the firstdesigns in his new T-shirt line called Value Meal. “I like …
Old Brew Animation Blog Season by Amid Amidi Thursday September 1, 2005 10:55 am The summer of 2005 will go down as the animation artist’s blogrenaissance. Artist blogs have been cropping up at an …
Old Brew Ryan Larkin on the comeback trail by Amid Amidi Thursday September 1, 2005 7:26 am Ryan Larkin, the celebrated wunderkind of 1960s Canadiananimation whose downfall was the subject of Chris Landreth’s …
Old Brew CINECON & JANET KLEIN by Jerry Beck Wednesday August 31, 2005 5:28 pm This’ll be slightly off-topic. I’m plugging my whereabouts thenext five days. Tomorrow night I will be in two places at …
Old Brew HOOTERS HIRES BETTY BOOP by Jerry Beck Wednesday August 31, 2005 2:26 pm Just when you thought King Features couldn’t sink any lower -they do this.(Link to Mark Evanier’s News From ME)
Old Brew EMPRESS CHUNG by Jerry Beck Wednesday August 31, 2005 7:24 am Who says traditional animation is dead?Not Nelson Shin – theWalt Disney of Korea. His epic labor-of-love, EMPRESS CHUNG, has …
Old Brew Marcelo Braga’s blog by Jerry Beck Tuesday August 30, 2005 11:22 am Brazilian cartoonist Marcelo Braga (of the Macacolandia Studio)has started a blog, which is loaded with his, and some of his …
Old Brew THE NEW GUMBY by Jerry Beck Tuesday August 30, 2005 7:50 am The current owners of National Lampoon have partnered with ArtClokey Productions to recraft the original Gumby TV series …