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1960 US Navy spot by Bobe Cannon

After Robert “Bobe” Cannon (the genius director of Gerald McBoing Boing) left UPA around 1958, he began to do a lot of commercial …

I just came across this trade ad from a 1945 issue of Box Office Magazine. Click on thumbnail image at left to see it in full …

Cool McCool was not a great cartoon show. In fact, it was downright poor. Created by Bob Kane (of Batman and Courageous Cat fame), and …

Cartoonist David King has posted on his blog several interesting pages from a 1950 book, The Complete Guide to Professional Cartooning. …

I was bummed when animation artist Chris Ishii passed away in 2001 because I’d had his phone number on my desktop for quite a while and …

Looney Tunes fans rejoice! Jon Cooke and Matthew Hunter have joined forces to start a new blog to collect and showcase Warner Bros. …

A few years ago, Ray Pointer (aka Inkwell Images) put together a superb DVD collection of seven Alice Comedies, Disney’s 1920s silent-era …

Kevin Langley found this vintage clip online in which Walter Lantz describes the duties of a cartoon director at his studio. It’s nice to …

Mark Evanier posted this Tex Avery-directed Raid commercial on his blog and I couldn’t resist linking to it as well. At the risk of …

What does this Scrappy toy (pictured above) have to do Humphrey Bogart? Harry McCracken, the mastermind behind the much acclaimed …

Who knew Frank Tashlin was still doing commercial art in 1948? I didn’t. This is currently for sale on eBay.

Allan Holtz, on his indespensible comic strip blog Stripper’s Guide, has posted an intriguing 1925 article (from Cartoons and Movies …

Caricatures of Hollywood celebrities have been common practice in animated cartoons since the silent era. And comedians authorizing their …

Here. Practice your inking skills with this 1934 Popeye Inking Chart direct, via a time warp, from the Fleischer Studios. And don’t …

Between the years he directed Popeye, Superman and Stone Age cartoons for Fleischer & Famous Studios in the early 40s, and his story and …

Aeron has posted an inspiring collection of backgrounds from the animated feature LE ROI ET L’OISEAU here and here. Last August, we …

Dave Fleischer left Miami based Fleischer Studios in 1942 and bolted to the west coast where he was offered the job of producer, …

You won’t see this as bonus material on the LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION dvd series. Here is the rare 1944 George Pal Puppetoon, Jasper …

In honor of our 1500th post here on Cartoon Brew, we’d like to offer you some 1930s Harman-Ising animated goodness in the form of MGM-era …

Cartoon Brew readers have likely seen Chuck Jones’s One Froggy Evening (1955) more times than they can count, but do you know the answers …