What the well-dressed cartoon fan is wearing this season…
Just spotted on zazzle.com. Gotta admit I wish I had thought of this first…
Jerry Beck
Walt and El Grupo events
There are bi-coastal events tied in to Ted Thomas’s must-see documentary Walt and El Grupo that Brew readers may want to attend. In …
Cool Vintage Cartoon Ads
Ahhh… once upon a time! This pretty much sums up my childhood (except my hair was longer). Reader Billie Towser sent in these 1940s-50s …
Glenn Martin, DDS Talkback
Nick-at-Nite’s new animated series, the one produced by Michael Eisner, made it’s debut tonight. Anyone catch it? I did, and despite the …
Cartoon Network loses gamble
The LA Times has a huge front page story in it’s Business section today, reporting on Cartoon Network’s recent programming gamble on live …
If you’ve ordered Darrell’s Magoo book…
If you’ve ordered Darrell Van Citters wonderful Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol book and never received your copy – please read the …
Virginia Davis 1918-2009
Virginia Davis of Walt Disney’s Alice Comedies passed away this morning. She was 90 years old and had been in failing health this past …
Mark Marek’s WB logo
Alternative cartoonist and animator Mark Marek has been quite successful drawing comics, doing illustrations, animating and directing …
Duck Tales live action
The trend toward remaking animated shows into live action, taken to its most illogical extreme: (Thanks, Adam Blake)
Myron Waldman’s Eve
Here’s a rare treat for Fleischer Studio fans – or anyone interested in clever, cartoon story-telling: the latest issue of The Comics …
Ponyo Talkback
Hayao Miyazaki’s latest feature opens today in the United States. I reviewed it here last month. Now its your turn to tell us what you …
Popeye sings Looney Tunes theme
Speaking of Popeye (as we were here)… his voice croons one of the greatest cartoon theme songs of all time. No, not “I’m Popeye The …
Girls Drawing Girls at Meltdown
Okay guys, the animation-geek social event of the summer is here. On Saturday night, Meltdown Comics in Hollywood is hosting a really …
Here Come The Guns
Here’s a clever music video, animated by Greg Condon for the rock band Choo Choo la Rouge, using post-it note pads as flipbooks.
The Bugs Bunny Story
My friend Martha Sigall is one of the last living survivors of Termite Terrace (aka the Leon Schlesinger “Looney Tunes” Studio). She’s …
Obama = Felix The Cat?
We try our best to keep politics out of Cartoon Brew, but an item reported this morning on The Huffington Post caught my eye, and I felt …
Who’s Afraid of Song of the South?
Song of the South, the one film The Walt Disney Company will not release on DVD, lives on. There hasn’t been much to report lately on …
Worms
Worms is a new stop-motion family film being produced in Brazil. The project has an excellent production blog explaining what it’s about, …
What’s Wrong With Ruth?
Today’s episode of Cartoon Network Pilot Playhouse asks the eternal question, What’s Wrong With Ruth? (created by William Reiss). …
Fleischer double-feature at the Egyptian 9/25
Just a quick heads-up that I’ll be introducing a double feature Max Fleischer’s two great animated features, Gulliver’s Travels (1939) …
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