Fleischer Superman on DVD
Warner Bros. is finally releasing the classic Paramount Superman cartoons (1941-43) on a stand alone DVD set. These are the nine Max …
Jerry Beck
New Years Looney Tunes marathon
Looney Tunes make a return appearance to television on New Years Day when Cartoon Network is scheduled to broadcast an all-day 14-hour …
JibJab’s 2008 Year in Review
It wouldn’t be Christmas without the traditional year-end report from JibJab:
Maliki vs. Trukillo
I’m a sucker for retro-nonsense like this: Paul Badilla and his friends in Chile made this for an exhibition for the artist …
Hornswiggle
Well, imagine my surprise when I sat down to watch Saturday’s installment of Random Cartoons (10:30am/1:30pm on Nicktoons Network) and up …
The Hangman
Joe Dante’s Trailers From Hell is down for Christmas week, so instead of trailer commentaries he’s running The Hangman, a rarely-seen …
Cartoon Dump News
Chris Hardwick is our guest comedian for Tuesday night’s live Cartoon Dump show in Los Angeles. If you don’t know him, he’s a very funny …
Help Select the 100 Greatest Looney Tunes
I’m working on a new book project with Insight Editions (the same folks who published The Hanna Barbera Treasury) – and I need your help. …
New Star Trek trailer
The wacky folks at NEO f/x took the soundtrack from this trailer for the upcoming Star Trek movie and combined it with images from …
2008 Brew Holiday Gift Guide #2
Three more books I’m recommending for holiday gift giving, mainly because they are really good reads. Directing the Story by Francis …
Warner Bros. Animated Industrials
Back in September I wrote several posts about a stash of Warner Club News magazines I came into featuring rare photos and information …
MGM Shorts Story
Here’s something you may not have seen. During the 1930s, MGM published a bi-monthly in-house magazine, MGM Shorts Story devoted to its …
The Spirit That Never Was
Thank you Mark Evanier for pointing us towards a must-read L.A. Times article by former Chuck Jones/Bill Melendez/Richard Williams …
2008 Brew Holiday Gift Guide #1
Several animators have expanded beyond simply publishing their own sketchbooks and have moved up into creating personal illustrated …
Siegfried trailer
This just in from France: 2D isn’t quite dead yet… Based on Dargaud’s graphic novel Siegfried by Alex Alice. Animation by …
$9.99, Delgo and Dragon Hunters open today
Big animation day in L.A. – three (count ’em, three) animated features open to qualify for an Oscar nomination: • Dragon …
Google Magazine Search
Check out this great article on Hanna Barbera from the September 1960 issue from Popular Mechanics (that’s Carlo Vinci above shown …
Golden Globe nominations
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (aka a group of anonymous journalists who cover Hollywood for international publications, but …
Cartoon Brew 2008 Favorites: Jerry’s Picks
Favorites of 2008? Cartoon Brew co-editor Amid certainly chose several that could have/would have made the top of my list. However, upon …
Raggedy Ann pencil test
Sorry this is a bit hard to see, but it’s an early pencil test of Tissa David’s “Candy Hearts” sequence from Richard Williams Raggedy Ann …
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