San Diego: Bill Presing

Pixar storyboard artist and Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher co-creator Bill Presing will debut his new “cute cartoon girl” book Bookplate …

San Diego: JJ Villard

JJ Villard, who set the animation world ablaze a few years back with his amazing student films and then somehow ended up working at …

Presto Director Speaks

Spline Doctors, the animation education blog run by Pixar animators, offers up a new audio interview with Doug Sweetland, longtime Pixar …

Harald Siepermann Designs Galore

Character designer Harald Siepermann has posted a lot (and I do mean A LOT) of his artwork onto this blog entry. These include designs …

Japanese Animators Unionize

Beginning this month, a group consisting of hundreds of Japanese animation artists have launched the Japan Animation Creators Association …

The Influence of Ralph Bakshi

The latest issue of Arthur Magazine has an article by illustrator Arik Roper who recounts his personal memories of discovering the …

Ralph Bakshi event at Meltdown

Ralph’s comin to town… to party. Meltdown is hosting a Ralph Bakshi bash in Hollywood next week with a gallery full of original …

Shigeru Miyamoto Profile in NY Times

Better late than never: this weekend’s NY Times offers a profile of Shigeru Miyamoto, the prolific Nintendo game designer responsible for …

Carlos Ramos exhibit

The Corey Helford Gallery is preparing Natural History Museum Part I, an exhibition of new paintings by animator Carlos Ramos (The X’s, …

Girls Drawin’ Girls Vol. 2

GirlsDrawinGirls are having their Volume 2 premiere show at The Hive Gallery, 729 S. Spring Street, in Los Angeles on June 7th. I’ve been …

Three Interviews

Links to a few nice creator interviews I’ve recently run across: Wired offers a nice interview with Nina Paley in which she discusses …

Inspired by Cartoon Brew

One of the most rewarding parts of running Cartoon Brew is hearing from artists who are inspired by the items that we post here. Here are …

Bakshi in NY Mag

A short but fun interview with Ralph Bakshi appeared in last week’s New York magazine. I particularly enjoyed this exchange between the …

Bakshi — In the Gallery and On Radio

Folks in Manhattan may want to check out the Animazing Gallery in Soho (461 Broome St.) which has a show of new paintings by Ralph …

Rare Terrytoon photos

That’s Gene Deitch (left) examining cels of Bert and Harry Piels (of the famed Piels Beer commercials) with director Connie Rasinski in …

Brad Bird on Ollie Johnston

Ollie Johnston’s cameo in Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant We asked Brad Bird, Oscar-winning director of Ratatouille and The Incredibles, if …

The Disney Company on Ollie Johnston

(Above: Milt Kahl, Marc Davis, Frank Thomas and Walt Disney flank seated Ollie Johnston) Howard Green just sent over the official …

John Canemaker on Ollie Johnston

Oscar winning animator, animation historian and author of Disney’s Nine Old Men, John Canemaker sent in this tribute to Ollie …

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