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Stripper’s Guide, a blog dedicated to newspaper comic strips, yesterday posted samples of George Stallings’ little-known comic-strip …

We should note that producer Steve Krantz passed away last Thursday in Los Angeles from complications of pneumonia. He was 83.Krantz is …

Another of the old guard of animation, Pete Kleinow, has passed away. He was both a stop motion animator (with Art Clokey), and a renown …

In addition to THE ART OF RATATOUILLE, there’s a couple other books based on Pixar’s upcoming RATATOUILLE that are worth mentioning here. …

In 2005 Warner Bros. released, as bonus material on

With Iwao Takamoto’s passing, I thought it would be an appropriate time to share this interview I conducted with him in January 1999. It …

We’ve just heard that Iwao Takamoto passed away today. Takamoto is best known for his design work at Hanna-Barbera during the 1960s. He …

Ryan Larkin, Canadian animation legend-turned-panhandler, who was the subject of Chris Landreth’s Oscar-winning short RYAN, is creating …

Comic book and animation artist Kyle Baker was recently interviewed in Mike Manley’s excellent DRAW! magazine, and Mark Mayerson posted …

My book CARTOON MODERN: STYLE AND DESIGN IN FIFTIES ANIMATION is starting the new year with a bang. Today’s NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW has a …

Independent animator Dave Redl has created a mini-industry by writing, voicing and animating his own short-form cartoon series, Family …

Haven’t seen the flick myself yet, but word has filtered out that Arthur And The Invisibles has been officially disqualified from Academy …

Softlightes “Heart Made of Sound,” a music video by Kris Moyes, is one of the most fun and playful pieces of stop-motion I’ve seen in a …

This is the sad type of story that obviously no one would like to be reporting. After losing their home during Hurricane Katrina, …

The title of this post is the headline from a 1943 newspaper article that Hans Perk recently posted on his blog. It’s about Bee Selck, …

This one is only for our Francophone friends: Brew reader Olivier Ladeuix lets us know that last month Radio France broadcast a 20-part …