ASIFA-East Animation Festival
This Sunday, May 6th at 6pm, is the biggest annual animation event in New York City, the 38th ASIFA-East Animation Festival. Awards, …
Jerry Beck
Lantz DVD Update
Look! Universal has posted a teaser page to promote the Woody Woodpecker DVD coming out on July 24th. Note that pre-orders can be …
Looney Tunes #150
COMIC SHOP PICK-OF-THE-WEEK: DC’s LOONEY TUNES No. 150. It’s an all-star extravaganza as Daffy details his long, illustrious movie …
Canemaker at Apple Store Soho
Apple and indieWIRE are presenting several Filmmaker Talks at the Apple Store Soho during the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. Tomorrow our …
Kim Deitch presents Serial Queens
I love old movie serials, and really admire Kim Deitch’s graphic novels. Strangely enough both converge at the Silent Movie Theatre in …
FLIP
Is it possible to have an animation magazine about animators, written by animators, and edited by an animator? It is… and animator …
Brew Radio: TONIGHT!
Just got a last minute call to appear on a radio show tonight (4/30) at 11pm Pacific (2am Eastern). I’ll be discussing classic cartoons …
Neal Gabler on Disney at LAT Book Fest
I took a break from my deadlines on Saturday to see Mike Barrier discuss his Walt Disney biography at the Los Angeles Times Festival of …
Too Art For TV, Too
The first one was a big success, so here comes Too Art for TV, Too, the second annual exhibition of personal art by New York’s animation …
Betty Boop Slept Here
Fleischer Studios made arguably the funniest cartoons of the 1920s and ’30s — and they made them, from 1923 through 1938, in studio …
Shag Documentary
I like Shag, but I hope this documenatry is better than its trailer:
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
The LA Times Festival of Books (4/28-29) is such a huge event – the Comic Con International of book fairs, if you will – that it cannot …
Brew Radio: TODAY!
Here’s the reminder: yours truly, Jerry Beck, will appear on a live Internet radio chat today at 7pm Eastern/4pm Pacific. I will be …
Spiderman 3 Trailer (not)
According to the folks at Black 20, “Spiderman 3 went way over budget, and to finish the film, producers had to use product placement to …
Brew Radio on Wednesday
Yours truly, Brewmaster Jerry Beck, will appear on a live Internet radio chat Wednesday afternoon (4/25) at 4pm. I will be joined by …
Jim Thurman (1935-2007)
We must sadly note the passing of Jim Thurman, an Emmy-award winning children’s television writer, who died April 14 at age 72. I had …
Will Friedwald
Jerry Beck, Alan Greenfield, Will Friedwald, Mark Mayersonprobably inspecting the soundtrack of Bosko’s Picture Show(circa 1978) While …
Animagination
Youth Opportunities United (aka YOU) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of abused and neglected children in …
Diogo Kalil
Diogo Kalil, an art director and animator from Brazil, currently living in Santa Monica, California, is looking to change his …
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