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Another 50s book update
Pardon my long silence. Deadlines aplenty. I’m happy to report that all the text for my 50s animation design book is now finished. The …
Amid Amidi
Tonight! Baseman in LA
This Saturday night, from 7-10pm is the opening reception for Gary Baseman’s new art show “For the Love of Toby” at Billy Shire Fine Arts …
A Day With Enrico
Enrico Casarosa, creator of MIA and SketchCrawl, not to mention a board artist at Pixar, made a-little-over-24-hour-comic and it’s a …
Remembering The Other Joe Grant
The talented
REVIEW: MIND GAME
It’s not often that I get excited about an animated feature, particularly a Japanese animated feature, but I’m really eager to check out …
Paintings by Amanda Visell
Amanda Visell, co-founder of The Girls Productions (plugged earlier HERE), is part of a group art show that opens this Saturday, May 7, …
Loonatics Title No More?
Warner Bros. TV Animation continues to dig itself into a deeper and deeper hole of its own making with its LOONATICS fiasco. First, they …
TOOT WHISTLE PLUNK AND BOOM
There’s a great post about the classic Ward Kimball short TOOT WHISTLE PLUNK AND BOOM (1953) at the appropriately named Ward-O-Matic, the …
Bobe Cannon
Robert “Bobe” Cannon (1909-1964) is somebody we don’t talk about nearly often enough on Cartoon Brew. I write about Cannon in greater …
Raul Garcia’s The Tell-Tale Heart
Veteran feature animator Raul Garcia (ALADDIN, THE LION KING, POCAHONTAS and many others) has finished his personal short film, THE …
Monday Morning Inspiration: Dave Wasson
Check out Dave Wasson’s reel at the Acme Filmworks website. There’s a lot of good stuff on it, but best of all, the final item on the …
Some Kind of UFO Blah Blah
Serbian designer/animator Sinisa Sumina has created a really cool 30-second self-promotional piece that combines retro-imagery with a …
Eddie Friedman (1912-2005)
Bronwen Barry writes on Animation Nation: I have to post this sad note on the passing of my dear,dear friend (and, at one time, bowling …
50s animation design book update
If you have called or emailed me in the past couple months and have not received a response, please accept my apologies. I have been …
Loonatics: A lesson in mediocrity
How pathetic are the execs at Warner Bros. Animation? They’ve junked the original LOONATICS designs and made new ones because an …
One More François Fan
SHEEP IN THE BIG CITY creator and super-successful children’s book author/illustrator Mo Willems writes to express his admiration for …
André François, RIP
Another major cartoonist of the 20th century has passed away. Romanian-born André François, whose drawing style was imitated …
Koji Morimoto Short
I have no idea what this film is about, but I sure enjoyed all the inventive cartoon movement in it. It’s a music video of sorts (sounds …
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