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Cartoon Brew just launched its first major redesign in five years. We’ve reworked a lot of the site’s elements, but one thing that we …

Animator Darrell Van Citters is following up his most-excellent making of Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol book with a new book on The Art of …

Random House, which is a sponsor of Cartoon Brew this month, has provided us with FIVE copies to give away of their new book A Mary Blair …

This is the story of Pixar, John Lasseter and three of the most important animated features of the last 20 years. It’s also one of …

Anything by Michel Gagné, even 30 seconds of new animation, is worth a post on Cartoon Brew. Here is a promo for his 2010 graphic novel …

Small press publisher Picture This Press will release two-volumes of The Lost Art of Heinrich Kley next month at the Small Press Expo in …

Three new books popped into my mailbox this week. What were they? Funny you should ask… I’m a big fan of Chronicle’s Art-Of …

I’m heading down to Comic Con right now and will be there tonight and for the next few days. In addition to funky old comics, here’s a …

A companion to my upcoming biography of Ward Kimball, 365 Days of Ward will be updated EVERY SINGLE DAY for the next year. The site is a …

Less than one month to go before the release of the next Pixar “original” and the publicity is certainly heating up. Billboards are up …

Luca Raffaelli’s Le anime disegnate: Il pensiero nei cartoon da Disney ai giapponesi e oltre may be a very good book, but this cover for …

We’ve entered a new era of Disney-related memoirs–books written by artists who worked at the tail end of animation’s Golden Age or …

Maurice Sendak died this morning due to complications from a recent stroke. The New York Times says he was “widely considered the most …

Didier Ghez, editor of the important Walt’s People anthologies and proprietor of the Disney History blog, interviewed me about my …

My favorite publisher Chronicle Books just put out their Fall/Winter 2012 catalog and they’re releasing more animation and …

I’ve been picking up a lot of good books lately and though they’ve been classic comics-related, all have animated cartoon connections. …

This is turning out to be quite the year for historical Disney animation books. We’ve already announced Pete Docter’s Nine Old Men …

April 2, 1934. Seventy-eight years ago to the day, a twenty-year-old kid started working at Walt Disney Productions. His name was Ward …

As a longtime non-sports card collector, I was delighted when the original series of Garbage Pail Kids stickers came out in 1985. I …

As if yesterday’s news of the Nine Old Men flipbook set wasn’t tantalizing enough, there’s also the Mary Blair Treasury of Golden Books …