STALLING IMPORT
A newly released import, Cartoon Melodies: A Tribute To The Classic Warner Bros Cartoons — Music Composed & Conducted By Carl Stalling …
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POPEYE’S VOYAGE
Brew reader Tom Giatras took some pictures (click pic 1 and pic 2) and sends this report from the New York Licensing Show:Just came back …
Janice Nadeau’s ‘Harvey’: A Boy Recalls The Spring Day When His World Turned Upside Down
It’s been a whirlwind year for Quebec animator Janice Nadeau since the premiere of her animated short Harvey at Clermont-Ferrand.
MERRIE MELODIES MYSTERY
Cartoon historian Cole Johnson sent me this jpeg of his cel from HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT (WB 1941).The odd thing about it is that in the …
TAKE AN INKER TO LUNCH
Would you like to talk to a woman who’s animation career spans more than 50 years?Women in Animation Los Angeles presents a salon …
Annecy Report #1
I’d originally planned to write daily reports from Annecy, but there’s so much to see and do here that I’m not exactly finding a whole …
MONSTER ROAD
Monster Road is a feature-length documentary by Brett Ingram (Director/Co-editor) and Jim Haverkamp (Co-Producer/Co-Editor) that explores …
SPEED RACER
Movielink has acquired the right to carry all 52 episodes of the classic Speed Racer animated television series for legal download, to …
THE BUZZ ON “PRIDE”
This doesn’t sound too good:Silence greeted the NBC sales presentation of FATHER OF THE PRIDE, the Dreamworks CG animated comedy based on …
AnimationMentor.Com
Here’s a website that looks quite promising: AnimationMentor.com. The concept is an on-line animation school where students can receive …
LION KING REUNION
Ten years ago, The Lion King not only became the high water mark of the Disney Feature Animation revival, but it also capped the 2-D …
MONKEY EXEC
FYI – Don’t miss Pete Emslie’s wonderful poem posted on Jim Hill Media today, “The Monkey’s Tale”.
Are You Down With That?
In the forthcoming GARFIELD movie, the filmmakers have apparently made the bold decision to have CG Garfield be afflicted with Down …
Genndy’s New Gig
Genndy Tartakovsky (creator of SAMURAI JACK and DEXTER’S LABORATORY) has been signed by Sony Pictures to write and direct a live-action …
Fun and Educational
While I already have a pretty firm grasp of the concepts of “up” and “down,” I’m still going to buy THE UP AND DOWN BOOK when it’s …
SIAN KA’AN
Here’s more proof that there’s life after Disney.Raul Garcia, who was an animator at Disney on most of their major features of the past …
False Alarm of the Week
“The 2-D business is coming to an end, just like black and white came to an end.” – Michael Eisner (June 2, 2004) Eisner has been known …
LIFE’S A PITCH
The April 2004 edition of ASIFA-East’s newsletter, “aNYmator”, had a great piece by ASIFA-East president David Levy on the realities of …
Another Look at United’s TV Spots
A few months ago, I expressed some bewilderment about United Airlines’ new animated ad campaign. Now here’s another OPINION from …
HERITAGE AUCTION
Once again, my friends at HERITAGE COMICS AUCTIONS have released their latest drool-inducing catalog of “stuff I would buy if I were a …
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