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Cartoon Culture

Celebri-Ducks

Just when you thought the era of ugly Popeye merchandise was over… In a universe of bad ideas, we may have winner! Or this may be …

Events

Annie Awards

I’m getting an award! The Annie Award nominations were announced this morning. The big news is that the juried awards are going to …

Classic

Animation History Round-Up #5

The animation history round-ups have become one of my favorite types of posts to do on Cartoon Brew. It is always eye-opening to see the …

Books

Escape!

Former Animato and Animation Planet editor G. Michael Dobbs has collected his writings, interviews and reviews from those publications …

Disney

9 Most Racist Disney Characters

I’m not sure how long this has been posted, but I just found out that Cracked Magazine.com has listed what they believe are the 9 most …

Advertising

Creature Discomforts

Aardman Animation is using their incredible talents to create a series of TV spots to highlight the problems faced by people with …

Internet/Blogs

New Flip

Check out the Christmas issue of Flip. This month features stuff to buy from FLIP artists, and articles by Nancy Beiman, Signe Baumane, …

Cartoon Culture

How To Draw Funny Pictures

Bill Stewart of Frantic Films posted a precious family heirloom on flickr: Treasure Chest’s Hobby Craft – Points on Cartooning and How To …

Shorts

Peak Oil

Animator Bruce Woodside (Cool World, Space Jam, Bakshi’s Mighty Mouse, etc.) made this film on his own, and posted it on You Tube last …

Disney

The Pixar Story Hollywood Screening

We’ve plugged Leslie Iwerks’ new Pixar documentary on the Brew many times before. It’s a must see. I want to alert the Los Angeles area …

Books

Reminder: Hanna Barbera Book Signing

Join me this Saturday, December 1st at 1pm, at the Van Eaton Gallery where I’ll be signing my new book The Hanna Barbera Treasury. The …

CGI

Who Invented Motion Capture?

San Francisco commercial director Carl Willat has the shocking and hilarious answer. (Thanks, Karl Cohen)

Shorts

Christmas Nerds

Three nerds turn a nativity scene into a roleplaying battleground. Matt Burnett and Ben Levin spent a year animating this …

Illustration

Tack’s Cartoon Tips

Daily Show associate producer Dave Blog posted a flickr set scanned from an old cartooning manual he picked up at an estate …

Music Videos

“Lollipop” by Bonzom

The music video “Lollipop” for musician Mika is a joyful if somewhat overproduced Seventies graphic pastiche. It is the promising debut …

Animators

Fernando Leal

There isn’t a whole lot of work on the site of London-based Brazilian illustrator and animator Fernando Leal but what is there shows a …

Anime

New York Anime Festival

Isn’t it ironic that the big New York Anime Festival, occurring next weekend at the Javitz Center, begins on Pearl Harbor Day …

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