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Happy Birthday, Marge Champion and Willis Pyle!

With all the RIP posts recently, it’s refreshing to hear some news about animation veterans who are alive. Today is the 91st birthday of …

It’s not a good week to be a Japanese animation legend. Stop motion animator and puppeteer Kihachiro Kawamoto, passed away last Monday at …

Satoshi Kon passed away in Tokyo on Tuesday. He was 46–and in the middle of directing a new film, The Dream Machine. Kon was one of a …

A Battle of Animation Studio Bands? Women In Animation International (WIA) is planning a “Battle of the Animation Bands” concert, an …

Doug Post of Woodbury University saves everything and recently found this article in a newsletter he used to get as a child. It’s a …

A profile of Sanjay Patel, Pixar animator and illustrator of Ramayana: Divine Loophole, which aired on PBS recently. (Thanks, …

As mentioned here last week, this past weekend the fine folks of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, held an event to dedicate a Historical …

Bob McIntosh passed away on June 17, 2010 at the age of 94. Born on March 11, 1916 in Vallejo, California, and raised in Stockton, Bob …

Anything Michel Gagné does is worth a post on Cartoon Brew, but a whole new film by him is cause for celebration. His new short, …

A couple of bits of news from the stable of The Brothers McLeod. They’ve uploaded a trailer for their new short film The Moon Bird (a 15 …

Two important women in animation passed away recently: Shirley Silvey died on July 17 in Fresno, California. When she started …

I really like the designs Danish artist Christyan Lundblad has posted on his blog. Here is a student film Lundblad did a few years ago …

Portland cartoonist John Callahan, who had been quadriplegic since the age of 21, passed away yesterday at age 59. His crude, funny …

Eighty-nine years young, David Weidman is the subject of a long profile in today’s LA Times written by David Keeps. Weidman began his …

In an impending sign of the apocalypse, Elle Girl magazine published a story about a female animator. The artist is Julia Pott, who …

Pres and Jeannine Romanillos. Photo by Tim Hodge Veteran feature animator Pres Romanillos passed away yesterday at the age of 47 after …

(click for full-sized version) I should have waited until the holidays to post this, but I couldn’t resist. Cool stuff like this has …

Just in time to debut at the San Diego Comic Con, Titmouse Inc. (the animation studio behind Metalocalypse and Black Panther, among …

Betty Lawyer Kimball passed away last Thursday evening at the age of 97. She died from natural causes. Betty (birth name: Mary …

If you are in Southern California next Tuesday, July 6th, come and meet animator Gene Deitch who will appear in person at a tribute …