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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER reports that brothers Paul and Ga”tan Brizzi, most famous for directing the “Firebird Suite” in FANTASIA 2000, …

Even though I’ve mentioned this before, I think it’s worth doing so again. Disney story artist Mark Kennedy has been posting an excellent …

The Baxton Benefict Auction at CalArts this past weekend was a huge success, raising over $32,000, which will be going directly towards …

AWN has a good INTERVIEW with NY indie Pat Smith. One thing Pat says in there really stood out to me: The pitching system is a bad …

Paul Grimault, whose feature LE ROI ET L’OISEAU was the subject of discussion HERE last month, also directed a short film in the …

Three different artists, three different studios, three blogs worth noting:Colin Giles, an animator with Carbunkle in Vancouver, has …

If this doesn’t kill the SPONGEBOB craze, nothing will.(Thanks, Uncle Wayne Daigrepont)

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo currently has on display a massive exhibition of Disney artwork from the 1920s-1960s. The story, …

Tonight from 7-10pm is the opening of the new and bigger Super7 store, right next door to the old store at 1628 Post Street, San …

As promised, here are the RESULTS from the Cartoon Brew reader survey that we ran a month or so ago. We ran the survey for our new ad …

Here is something to look forward to… high definition LOONEY TUNES! The first ones will debut on the

And don’t download this Weird Al video animated by Bill Plympton.

Tonight, I’m showing cartoons at the Janet Klein show at the Steve Allen Theatre. Join us in Hollywood at 8pm!Tomorrow night, Friday …

J.J. Sedelmaier sends us this sad news:I just wanted to let you and others know that Jan Svochak passed away yesterday afternoon. He was …

Apparently one of the negative side effects of Communism is that it destroys your ability to discern between good and bad animation. How …

ABC’s broadcast of Nightline last night did a report on classic cartoon censorship. I appear on camera to give a few thoughts.

We don’t usually review live action films on CARTOON BREW, but I just saw Mike Judge’s latest feature film, IDIOCRACY, and had to …

You’ve seen John Wilson’s work, but may not know his name. Wilson has had an amazing career, starting at David Hand’s studio in England …