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More on Duane Crowther

Oscar Grillo writes this nice memory of how he was inspired by Duane Crowther’s work: Duane was not only a great animator. He was a …

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BLUM BLUM

Every so often I see a piece of animation that completely knocks me out, a gem that I never even knew existed. This past weekend I saw …

Ward Kimball

Unidentifed Flying Kimball

Ward Kimball is the only animator I can ever imagine being caught up in this sort of stuff. This ARTICLE recounts Ward’s involvement with …

Anime

Independent Japanese Animation

Last month I sung the praises of Benjamin Ettinger’s anime blog AniPages Daily, but it’s worth doing again. During the past couple weeks, …

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More George W. Films

New Yorkers can see BUSHWHACKED!, another Bush-related film festival, this weekend at the 8th annual RESFEST. Here is a description of …

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Flash for Animators

Eddie Mort and Lili Chin REPORT on their blog that Macromedia is developing a new version of Flash geared towards animators and …

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Dubya Animation Fest

Hargrove Entertainment is currently soliciting films for the GW Bush Animation Festival. The selected shorts will be screened …

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Creativity: MacFarlane Style

Artist/creator Seth MacFarlane speaking about the difficulty of creating new episodes of FAMILY GUY: “I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh! We used up …

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John K. at the Egyptian

An IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW with John Kricfalusi has been posted at AWN where he talks about the films that he’ll be screening tonight and …

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Why Jaime Hates Family Guy

Jaime J. Weinman is a fine writer who discusses cartoons intelligently on his blog Something Old, Nothing New alongside a variety of …

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Introducing Ken Pontac

We’re excited to announce the return of guest blogging here at Cartoon Brew. It’s a fairly straightforward concept. Jerry and I don’t …

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More on S&P

The post I made last weekend about Standards & Practices has drawn a couple responses worth pointing out. Writer/producer Mark Evanier …

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NY TIMES on Team America

I haven’t particularly enjoyed anything by Trey Parker and Matt Stone since their short THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS, but that doesn’t mean …

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The Disappearing Comics Page

As a change of pace from news about the depressing animation scene, here’s a NY TIMES article with news about the depressing newspaper …

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Ren & Stimpy Tomorrow Night???

Regarding yesterday’s item, there seems to be some mass confusion about the airdate of the new REN & STIMPY: ADULT PARTY CARTOON …

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John K. Interview Coming Soon

In the next day or two, I’ll be posting an interview with John Kricfalusi about the new episodes of REN & STIMPY: ADULT PARTY CARTOON …

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Modern Character Design

MUCHA LUCHA creators Lili Chin and Eddie Mort weigh in on my comments from a few days ago regarding modern character design. Says Lili, …

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