TOP STORY: USC Shutters Its Expended Animation Program Just Four Years After Launch
Events

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 …

Books

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 …

Classic

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 …

Animators

Osvaldo Cavandoli (1920 -2007)

Giannalberto Bendazzi sends word that Italian animator Osvaldo Cavandoli died in Milan on Saturday, March 3rd, 2007, of natural causes. …

Animators

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 …

Animators

Kant-1

French illustrator, designer and 2D animator Quentin Tavernier (aka Kant-1) has a cool new website worth checking out. It’s as much fun …

Books

Arf Forum

The “Unholy Marriage of Art and Comics” is back! Craig Yoe has redesigned his Arf Lovers blog with new features like an rss feed, …

Animators

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 …

Shorts

Random Cartoon Postcards

Fred Seibert has posted a group of publicity postcards created to promote his new series, Random Cartoons. Thirty-nine animated shorts …

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 …

Disney

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 …

Anime

PAPRIKA trailer

Click here to see the exciting trailer for the new film by Satoshi Kon (Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers), Paprika. Watching this …

Events

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 …

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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 …

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PandaPanther

Animation producer Lydia Holness has teamed with directors Jonathan Garin and Naomi Nishimura to launch a new design/animation studio, …

Anime

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 …

Events

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 & …

Animators

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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