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Winsor McCay’s Hell House, Part Deux

This is a follow-up to a story that we first mentioned here a couple months ago about the decrepit state of cartoon legend and animation …

Walker is an arresting seventeen-second traffic safety spot created with a painterly feel by Danish artist Carl Krull. Also eye-catching …

Headless Productions is a small independent animation studio founded by Adrian Garcia, Victor Maldonado and Alfredo Torres …

Leif Jeffers, an animator at DreamWorks, wrote in to tell us of an auction that went live on ebay today. It’s called Beautiful Grim. Here …

No one admires the work of Mary, Lee and Preston Blair more than we do. Now Mary’s nieces, Maggie and Jeanne, have just sent word of …

Cleanse thine eyes, brave animation lover. As if anticipating the eyesore that was unveiled yesterday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts …

Cartoonist, illustrator and Oscar winning animator Ted Petok has passed away at age 93. His Oscar winning short was The Crunch Bird …

Veteran actor Michael Pataki passed away on April 15. The cause of death was cancer. Variety has his obituary. In addition to hundreds of …

We are long overdue in giving a plug to the Suspended Animation Gallery, an online art collection of pieces produced by Disney animation …

We try to avoid political commentary here on the Brew, but the above by Miami Herald’s Jim Morin is a fine example of the new wave of …

Cartoon Research continues…. Earlier this week we posted about a vintage Leon Schlesinger studio program for a Christmas play …

Did you know Chuck Jones drew a daily comic strip in 1976 and 1977? The strip concerned the musings of two children, not unlike Jones’ …

Animation veteran Pres Romanillos (Shan-Yu in Mulan, Little Creek in Spirit, Prince Naveen in Princess and the Frog) is currently …

Mike Van Eaton comes up with animation odds and ends all the time. I have no purpose in posting these except that I find them fascinating …

The Animation Guild is reporting the passing of animator Tom Ray. Ray started at Warner Bros. in 1937 and worked for MGM after WWII …

Disney animator Andreas Deja will be signing his new sketchbook and doing a talk next Saturday, April 17, 4pm to 7pm, at the Van Eaton …

Craig Yoe just posted a batch of rare print cartoons by animator Dick Huemer (Fleischer, Mintz, Disney) on his I.T.C.H. (International …

Bob Kurtz began his career designing the original Alvin and the Chipmunks for Format Films, wrote Pink Panther cartoons for …

Husband-and-wife animation team Jorge Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua (the creators of El Tigre) were interviewed by Lynda.com about their …

Well, I don’t know if it was a secret, but here’s a rare publicity photo of Dave Fleischer with a “story mood chart” indicating story …