Happy Halloween!

If you don’t know who this animation genius is, click on the picture to find out.

Happy 95th to Ollie!

Happy birthday to animation legend Ollie Johnston who celebrates his 95th today! (Thanks, John Canemaker)

Schulz and Melendez

With all the recent discussion about Charles Schulz, I thought it’d be fun to share this 1969 photo of Schulz pulling a ‘Lucy’ on Peanuts …

Happy Birthday Ralph Bakshi

I thought we’d celebrate the day with a viewing of my favorite Bakshi short, the grooviest cartoon ever made: Marvin Digs (1967).

A Don Hertzfeldt Interview

A brand-new online pop culture website, Bridgerack, has posted a really good Conversation With Don Hertzfeldt (Part One of Four starts …

Rebecca Sugar Gets It On

Frankly I’m not sure what’s more disturbing: drawings of the Terrytoons characters Sourpuss and Gandy getting it on, drawings of …

Profiling Joel Trussell

It used to be that you had to live in Los Angeles or New York to make it big in the US animation scene, but today a whole new breed of …

Ty Wong Paintings on Display

Ty Wong standing in front of his illustrations for The Wild Bunch at the opening of the show a couple weeks ago. (Matt …

Becky Fallberg, RIP

Jeff Kurtti writes to inform that Becky Fallberg has passed away at age 84. She worked at Disney from 1942 to 1986 in various capacities …

Harley Jessup Speaks

I’ve always been interested in learning more about animation production designer Harley Jessup (Twice Upon a Time, James and the Giant …

Animated Movie Titles

It’s funny how movie title sequences have now been moved to the back of the film. But that hasn’t stopped filmmakers from producing the …

Tytla animation art for sale

Bonhams & Butterfields next entertainment memorabilia auction, on Sunday December 9th, will contain animation art from the Estate of Bill …

Canemaker Wins Emmy and Honored in Italy

Congrats to our friend, and the animation art form’s friend, John Canemaker, who won an Emmy award last night at the 28th Annual News & …

Get Well, Mel?

Above and below are two parts of one interesting piece of WB ephemera that that one of our readers (who wishes to remain anonymous) …

Funny Animation on The Simpsons

This new video posted onto YouTube showcases some of the cartoonier moments (in slo-mo) from early Simpsons episodes. According to the …

Jim Tyer, Super Genius

Readers of Cartoon Brew should know the name Jim Tyer. He’s the cartoonist whose each and every drawing will immediately make you laugh, …

Ben Zurawski’s Flipbooks

So you’re a 23-year-old unknown animator and you’d like your work seen by millions of people on national TV. How do you do it? For …

Nicolai Troshinsky

Born in Moscow and currently living in Spain, 22-year-old illustrator/animator Nicolai Troshinsky creates beautiful lyrical mini-films in …

Bill Littlejohn Interview

Above: Bill Littlejohn at Playhouse Pictures in 1962 Whenever I’m depressed about the state of contemporary animation, I think about …

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