Brew Radio alert
Once again, Brewmaster Jerry Beck will open his big mouth and blab about classic cartoons on radio this Saturday afternoon, March 10th. …
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Disney Tomato Stickers
It’s all about marketing, I guess. Bad enough that Cinderella III was hyped on those dividers at the checkout aisle, now we can take …
Of Mice and Magic
I was rummaging through my stuff and found this ad I clipped from the October 30, 1980 issue of Rolling Stone. Of Mice and Magic came …
Gumby World
It’s easy to knock Gumby… He’s been mocked by Saturday Night Live, trivialized in junk merchandise, and mostly ignored by the …
Osvaldo Cavandoli (1920 -2007)
Giannalberto Bendazzi sends word that Italian animator Osvaldo Cavandoli died in Milan on Saturday, March 3rd, 2007, of natural causes. …
J.J. Defends 2-D
Go J.J.! Animator J.J. Sedelmaier has written an editorial for latest edition of Create Magazine making the case for animation …
How Hollywood Censored Its Animated Cartoons
The Hays office, and Hollywood cartoon producers, were just as mindful of young audiences back in the Golden Age of animation as …
1943 article on Pal’s Puppetoons
From Collier’s magazine (January 16, 1943), an interesting article on George Pal and hisPuppetoon shorts for Paramount Pictures. Click on …
Random Cartoon Postcards
Fred Seibert has posted a group of publicity postcards created to promote his new series, Random Cartoons. Thirty-nine animated shorts …
Mel Brooks’ The Critic
Brew reader Charles Brubaker wrote in to tell me that Mel Brooks Academy Award winning animated 1963 short, The Critic, had popped up on …
Japanese Retro-Oswald Figures
Continuing our Japanese theme today, David Gerstein led me to a Japanese website offering some very cool new Mickey Mouse and Disney …
PAPRIKA trailer
Click here to see the exciting trailer for the new film by Satoshi Kon (Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers), Paprika. Watching this …
Grindhouse Triple Feature
Quentin Tarantino is curating a two month retrospective of grindhouse movies at the New Beverly Cinema in Hollywood. He’s using his …
New Internet ads by John K.
John Kricfalusi has done four mini animated pieces for Raketu, a new internet/cell phone entertainment/communication service. John has …
PandaPanther
Animation producer Lydia Holness has teamed with directors Jonathan Garin and Naomi Nishimura to launch a new design/animation studio, …
New Anime at the Egyptian
Roughly a month from now, on Saturday March 31st, the American Cinematheque and The Japan Foundation are presenting a double bill of two …
Janet Klein
Once again this Thursday night – and every first Thursday of the each month – Jerry Beck will be the opening act for Janet Klein & …
More from Jules Engel’s estate
Here are a few more caricatures from Jules Engel’s estate, courtesy of USC’s Christine Panushka, Jules’s executor. Christine wants to …
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