Amid Amidi

Giuseppe Pantaleo, an eagle-eyed Brew reader from Melbourne, Australia spotted the following Preston Blair rip-off from down under. He …

Tuesday’s opening of I AM 8-BIT at Gallery 1988 was quite the scene. Tons of animation and illustration folk packed the place. Congrats …

This will be the last post on Leon for a while, but Jaime J. Weinman weighed in recently with some thoughtful comments on the merits of …

The great Jim Smith (REN & STIMPY, SAMURAI JACK) is coming out with a new sketchbook, DEADLY ARE THE NAKED, a follow-up to his first …

Politics don’t usually make an appearance on the Brew, except when despicable politicians are compared to Warner Bros. cartoon …

Erik Knutson writes in about yesterday’s item: Over the years, those Preston Blair bulldog drawings have become the generic bulldog of …

It seems that the fine folks in Ohio really enjoy the work of animator Preston Blair, and moreso, they love plagiarizing drawings from …

Here’s a heads-up on an event I’m doing which I’m really looking forward to — “The Art of Animation Timing: A Master Session with Fred …

Cartoonist pal Scott Shaw! has written a lovely remembrance of his friend and mentor, Gene Hazelton. It’s posted HERE and well worth a read.

I thought it’d be nice to remember Gene Hazelton with a few examples of his short-lived syndicated panel ANGEL FACE from 1957.

Animation designer/comic strip artist Gene Hazelton passed away last Wednesday at age 85. For a thoughtful account of Gene’s work, see …

Here’s a quote from a 1954 interview with UPA background painter/experimental filmmaker Jules Engel. Though the Hollywood context has …

There’s been a lot of griping and grousing recently on animation message boards (HERE, HERE and HERE) about DVNR. What’s that you say? …

This sounds like a fun Bay Area event taking place this Friday, April 8: Kartoon Kocktail 2005 is the second annual screening of …

FLIGHT 2 debuts this weekend at the Alternative Press Expo (APE) in San Francisco. FLIGHT is, in short, one of the most original and …

Animehell.org, the host of Jim Reardon’s student film BRING ME THE HEAD OF CHARLIE BROWN (originally linked HERE) had to take down the …

The Girls Productions is a new animation company founded by illustrator/painter Amanda Visell and writer Michelle Valigura. Both of them …