JERRY BECK ON SCREEN SAVERS

Friday January 21st 2005. Jerry Beck and host Sarah Lane on the set of G4’s THE SCREEN SAVERS. Photo by Coury Turczyn.

THE SIMPSONS DO CARL BARKS

Highly recommended is the latest issue of SIMPSONS COMICS (#102, now on sale) featuring a tribute/spoof of Western Publishing Carl Barks …

KUKLA, FRAN & OLLIE

Okay, this isn’t animation – but it was an intergral part of early television (and my personal childhood): KUKLA, FRAN & OLLIE.Fran …

ORIGINAL MICKEY MOUSE CLUB

Speaking of Mickey Mouse (as we were below), Diamond Galleries Scoop.com have posted parts of a 1932 Mickey Mouse Silly Symphonies …

REPORT FROM MOUSE HEAVEN

Brew New York galpal Anne D. Bernstein went to see the new Kenneth Anger film tribute to Disney. Here’s her report from MoMA:The event …

Nicktoons Film Fest Winners

The winners of the Nicktoons Film Festival (produced by Frederator and ANIMATION MAGAZINE) were recently announced and the $10,000 Grand …

American Dog Plot Revealed

I’ve been excited about the next film from Chris Sanders (LILO & STITCH) ever since I saw the first examples of concept art, but after …

Weekend Reading

Couple good articles to recommend. First, at SaveDisney.com, “In Defense of Disney’s Uncle Remus” is an in-depth piece that argues for …

If it’s not Scrappy, it’s crappy

The Internets will never be the same. Harry McCracken has launched the long-awaited Scrappyland.com, a site dedicated to celebrating the …

CORPSE BRIDE TRAILER

The new TIM BURTON stop-motion feature is coming and it looks good: see the trailer HERE.

SCREEN SAVERS

Set the TiVo tonight: Brewmaster Jerry Beck will appear as a guest on The Screen Savers which appears on Comcast’s digital channel, …

Don’t Squeeze The Sponge!

Oh, log this one under super-ridiculous!My pals over at Animation Magazine sent me the heads up on today’s New York Times article, …

Gene Deitch’s Definition of Animation

Academy Award winning animator Gene Deitch has a few thoughts on THE POLAR EXPRESS and the definition of animation – and I am taking the …

FRED PATTEN IN HOSPITAL

Good friend of the BREW, anime historian Fred Patten was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday, diagnosed with pneumonia.Fred is a Japanese …

Dan Krall Online

Just discovered that art director/background designer Dan Krall (SAMURAI JACK, FOSTER’S HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS) has a site up at …

Dan Lee, R.I.P.

Following a battle with cancer, animation artist Dan Lee passed away last weekend at age 35. He had most recently been doing story and …

Tom Ray Drawings

Ever since Amid posted the note about the Irv Spence diary, I’ve been thinking and thinking about him…Irv, I mean. I could swear I …

Asterisk Hip To PreSchool

One universal truth is that you meet the coolest people at animation film festivals. I met Richard O’Connor at Ottawa on a panel and was …

Notes from the Cartoon Blogosphere

> Ben Ettinger takes an in-depth look at the work of independent Japanese animator Tadanari Okamoto. Okamoto worked in an impressive …

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