Miguel Covarrubias Book

It’s turning out to be quite a year for aficionados of 20th century illustration. First there’s the upcoming Charley Harper volume (I saw …

Chronicle Blogging

Development piece by John Hubley from UPA’s Rooty Toot (1952). From the collection of Mike Glad. The folks at …

CONTEST: The Ancient Book of Myth and War

CONTEST OVER! I thought it was a fairly difficult question but obviously not for Brew readers. Before I could even get to my computer, …

The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm

When the CIA isn’t busy destabilizing other countries, they apparently like to help animation studios create cartoons. At least that’s …

New Animation Bookstore in Toronto

Toronto-area folks now have their own local alternative to Bud Plant and Stuart Ng’s. The Labyrinth is a brand new bookstore specializing …

To Infinity and Beyond

This October, Chronicle Books will release To Infinity and Beyond: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios by Karen Paik and Leslie Iwerks. …

Book By Its Cover

Imagine if there was a New York Times Book Review that exclusively covered inspiring art and illustration books. Well, there is such a …

New Cinderella Book With Mary Blair Art

Via Didier Ghez’s always informative Disney History blog comes word of a new Cinderella storybook that uses Mary Blair’s concept art from …

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 …

Book Look

Van Eaton Gallery &#149 Thursday night, 4.19.07, 9:30pm Van Eaton Gallery &#149 Thursday night, 4.19.07, 9:45pm Last night’s Book …

Animation Artist Autobiographies

Inspired by Michael Sporn’s recent series of posts about his favorite animation books, I wanted to share this list I’d compiled a while …

Geppi’s Entertainment Museum

No, this isn’t a frame from the forthcoming digital restoration of the Max Fleischer Popeye cartoons. It’s an actual production cel and …

Disney’s Lost Chords

Russell Schroeder has written and self-published an eye-opening (and ear-opening) book on the unused music for Disney films (both …

Animation Book Look

Our friends at the Van Eaton Gallery are hosting an event that I want to invite you all to. On Thursday, April 19, 2007 from 6:00pm-10:00 …

Publishers Like Animation Artists

One of the more inspiring trends recently has been seeing book projects by animation artists being picked up for distribution by …

Liar of Kudzu

Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle (creators of Disney’s Kim Possible) will be signing their new book Liar of Kudzu at Storyopolis in Studio …

The Ralph Bakshi Book Project

I’ve known about this for a while and am excited that I can finally let everybody know about it. Pals Jon Gibson (of I Am 8-Bit fame) and …

New Animation Magazines

Two new animation magazines appeared in my mailbox last week. Both are very well done, though aimed at completely different …

Halas & Batchelor Cartoons

Though mentioned on the Brew back in May, I just stumbled upon a copy of Halas & Batchelor Cartoons today, at my local Barnes and …

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