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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 …
Previously on Cartoon Brew
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 …
Re:Anima Joint Master In Animation Has Opened A New Call For Applications
The program offers an intensive two-year exploration of animation from an artistic perspective in Ireland, Belgium, or Portugal.
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 …
MLK Animation
In honor of Martin Luther King Day, I would like to guide you to a lovely cartoon produced by Clifford Cohen’s non-profit, Animaction, …
RAY HARRYHAUSEN: THE EARLY YEARS
Ray Harryhausen is making several live appearences in L.A. during the next few weeks to promote his book (which I got for Christmas) and …
JERRY BECK ON G4TECHTV
Media Alert: Brewmaster Jerry Beck is scheduled to appear as a guest on Comcast’s video game channel G4techTV (aka G4TTV) next Friday, …
Miyazaki in the New Yorker
This week’s NEW YORKER (Jan. 17) has a piece by Margaret Talbot about Hayao Miyazaki. That piece is only in the print edition, but the …
OSBORN’S DILBERT
I’d never heard of cartoonist Robert Osborn before today.Cartoonist Paul Giambarba has started a new weblog devoted to cartoonists past …
The Animation Show Is back
Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt’s THE ANIMATION SHOW is back for a second edition, and it’s another fine film line-up. They recently …
AS A PUBLIC SERVICE…
The United Nations has announced the release this week of The Three Amigos, a series of 20 short, professionally produced animated Public …
Stop-Frame Ward
I’m a huge stop-motion fan, so was interested to score a DVD copy of Australian filmmaker Peter Cornwell’s WARD 13 last week. In addition …
POOH ON YOUR TOAST
Yesterday while Steve Jobs revealed the new iPod in San Francisco, the electronic wizards in Japan revealed their own cutting edge …
The Irv Spence Blog
Daily visual inspiration for the rest of ’05. Sweet! Here’s an awesome BLOG where somebody (“Filboid Sudge”) is uploading the 1944 …
Weebls Wobble Good
One of the gigs I have had the privilege to work on recently was THE NICKTOONS FILM FESTIVAL (last episode on this Sunday at 7:00 pm, …
COLLECTING
The next time someone chides you for collecting stuff, send them to this website.Scroll down to see this guy’s impressive “Cartoon …
Innovation, Imagination and Squiggly Lines
Animator Joanna Priestley is celebrating 20 years as an innovative independent artist with a new 2-DVD anthology of her work. The two …
Art Of Robots Now Available
THE ART OF ROBOTS is now shipping at Amazon.com. It’s not like Fox is paying me any royalties on the book so if you buy it through this …
A Brush With Will Eisner
Mark Bunker sent in this nice memory of recently departed comic legend Will Eisner: Eisner has long been my favorite comic book artist. …
Further Beauty-full Thoughts
If you read my last post, you’ll know I’ve been thinking a lot about Sleeping Beauty. So much so that I asked the guys where they stand …
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