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CANEMAKER GETS AROUND

Our favorite Oscar winning animation historian John Canemaker has quite a busy schedule this summer. John will appear at the Zagreb …

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JANET KLEIN PLUG

Regular Brew readers already know that once a month (the first Thursday of each month) Jerry Beck shows vintage 16mm musical shorts and …

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C’MON GET HAPPY!

Don’t barf!A groovy new blog called Mondo Daddykin is posting the bubblegum soundtracks to 1960-70s series like Partridge Family 2200 …

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SGT. DAVE MONAHAN

In honor of Memorial Day, we are happy to once again highlight this link to Sue Larkin’s tribute blog to her dad, Warner Bros. storyman …

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ALEX TOTH (1928-2006)

Comic book artist and legend Alex Toth passed away on Saturday, May 27th, at age 78. Toth contributed significantly to animation – …

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TEN TURNING POINTS

I was asked to write an article for today’s Variety on the top ten “turning points” in animation history. The idea was to celebrate the …

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Animation Blast #9 Update

There’s now an accurate contents listing for BLAST #9 posted on the newly redesigned AnimationBlast.com. Below is the wraparound cover …

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SPRITE ANIMATION

Sprite Animation Studios has set up shop over at the Howard Hughes Center in West Los Angeles. The image above is from their first …

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CITY PARADISE

I have to admit that I didn’t quite “get” Ga”lle Denis’s film CITY PARADISE when I first saw it, but maybe that’s just me. The film, …

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PRINCESS IRON FAN (1941)

If they post it, I will link it! Here’s an excerpt from the rare 1941 Chinese animated feature PRINCESS IRON FAN. It’s interesting for a …

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BUGS BUNNY WW2 INSIGNIA

Way back in March 2005, I first posted about Brew reader Michael Brown’s contining efforts to identify the specific US Air Force squadron …

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FIRST REVIEWS OF A SCANNER DARKLY

From the Cannes Film Festival: The Hollywood Reporter HATES IT and Time Out calls it “even less generally accessible than Waking Life.” …

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EDDIE!

This is Eddie Fitzgerald, animation artist and director, in a photo taken by me circa 1988 at the Bakshi studio during the production of …

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CalArts at MoMA

“TOMORROWLAND: CalArts in Moving Pictures” is an ambitious film program (curated by Josh Siegel) that aims to document the work of …

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Be A Cartoon Brewer

Remember folks, the deadline is tomorrow afternoon to submit your entries for becoming a “guest brewer” on Cartoon Brew. We’ve already …

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NEW BOOKS

I caught up with Leonard Maltin last week and he told me about two new books he contributed to – and I think you ought to to know about …

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Remixing 19th Century Engravings

Artist Caleb Johnston has taken a bunch of 19th century public domain illustrations and engravings from the Dover books, and transformed …

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