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COLLECTING
The next time someone chides you for collecting stuff, send them to this website.Scroll down to see this guy’s impressive “Cartoon …
Previously on Cartoon Brew
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 …
WIA NYC Animation Festival Returns For Third Year, Celebrating Animation And Community
On November 1, WIA NYC will showcase 28 animated films by emerging students and established independent filmmakers at SVA Theatre.
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 …
Considering Merryweather
I’ve been considering the weather a lot lately, as have most of us in Los Angeles and all parts East. I’m particularly annoyed with all …
Rare Earle on DVD
Christmas is over, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the following holiday-themed dvd: Ernie Ford’s THE STORY OF CHRISTMAS. It can be …
Z is for Zagreb
At the fwak blog, Lili and Eddie write about some early Zagreb cartoons they recently saw: “If Disney’s objective was to create the …
Lazy Sunday Film Viewing
Here’s a WEBSITE with a lot of nice film clips of Eastern European stop motion animation by the likes of Starevitch, Zeman and Trnka. …
MORE OSWALD
Cartoon Brew’s own correspondent in Japan, Bill Schacht, writes in with this update:The Oswald merchandise previously posted on your site …
Early thoughts on Open Season
Sony Imageworks’s first feature OPEN SEASON already has one major strike against it: three co-directors. In my opinion, great animated …
A happy ending
Manohla Dargis put it best in THE NEW YORK TIMES when she called it, “The best bit of animation to originate in a DreamWorks film yet.” …
MOUSE ANGER
Underground filmmaker and historian (“Hollywood Babylon”) Kenneth Anger has made a new experimental short, MOUSE HEAVEN, “reflecting on …
OSWALD MANIA IN JAPAN
What is the deal with all this Oswald Rabbit merchandise is Japan?We reported on this phenomenon in an earlier post and David Gerstein …
May and the Kitten Bus
Last month I got to visit one of my dream destinations – The Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Japan. There on business, I was treated to a vip …
Animation Resolutions
Greetings Brew Readers, I’m really honored to be joining Cartoon Brew and the likes of Jerry and Amid for the month of January. (The …
MODERN ARF
Our pal Craig Yoe informs us of his cool new book
New Year, New Guest Brewer
After a terrific run by Harry McCracken, we’re excited to introduce our first Guest Brewer of 2005: Rita Street. Many of you know her …
JANET KLEIN TIME!
Thursday night I’m once again showing several musical shorts (and cartoons) at the Steve Allen Theatre in Los Feliz. This is my monthly …
My New Year’s Resolution
I have only one New Year’s resolution and that is to finish ANIMATION BLAST #9. I’ve been immensely frustrated with my inability to …
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