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A Tweety Boutique

Who says Cartoon Brew isn’t up on the world of fashion? Warner Bros. Studio Stores may be a thing of the past, but that hasn’t …

First published in The Indianapolis Star on July 30th. Artist Gary Varvel has a great blog where he explains the thought process behind …

Today’s must read: From Wall of Sound to Huckleberry Hound: The Vinyl Side of Hanna-Barbera by Kliph Nesteroff on the always informative …

Here’s a couple of odds and ends that won’t be found on any Popeye DVD collection anytime soon… Sounds like Jackson Beck Allen …

This short Reuters video tells the story of how soap stone carvers in the Kenyan village of Tabaka are earning more money than ever by …

(Thanks, SpockBoy and Michelle66)

Does it mean anything that filmmaking icons Ingmar Bergman and Michaelangelo Antonioni passed away the same week The Simpsons Movie …

Sure, The Simpsons Movie made over $70 million this weekend at the box office. But the big winner in all this is the estate of lyricist …

In case you missed our earlier contest, here’s another brain teaser courtesy of our friends from Mental Floss. Can you tell the …

We’ve posted other swipes from Preston Blair before (here, here, here and here) but this one is the mother of them all! Steve …

One of the many people I met at the Platform Festival in Portland two weeks ago (I’m just now getting around to unpacking my bags) was …

Variety is reporting that the Michel Ocelot’s animated film Kirikou and the Sorceress is set to make the transition to a stage musical …

Congrats to Lou Romano who painted the cover for this week’s New Yorker. Various illustrators who work in animation, like Peter de …

Eye candy and ear wax. Tony from Way Out Junk has amassed a treasure trove of obscure, offbeat children’s records, mainly from the …

In Japan, Coca Cola has started airing a set of non sequitur comedy skits starring a giant Coke Machine wandering around Tokyo. …

Jake Friedman sent this one in. Above is a still from Chuck Jones Now Hear This (1963). Below is a Morse Code decoder. Jake says: I …

If you think the animation business is tough, try selling blankets. Michael Marrer of Brackney Hills Knitting obtained a licensing …

The new Steven Spielberg/Michael Bay live action CG Transformers movie looks to be one of the biggest films of the summer. But if you …

Don’t know if you’ve heard but CalArts is finally catching up with the times and renaming itself the California Institute of Motion …

Osamu Tezuka’s biggest stars endorse the Toyota Prius on its 10th anniversary. (via Japan Probe)