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More Rare Kimball Video
Brew reader Dave Stuckey has uploaded yet another crazy rare Ward Kimball clip: a Firehouse Five Plus Two performance from the MGM film …
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Calvin and Hobbes Animated!
We may never see a Bill Watterson-approved animated version of Calvin and Hobbes but the following student film from Italy is a nice …
SVA’s Computer Arts Community Shines At SIGGRAPH 2025
SVA’s MFA Computer Arts program made a strong impact at SIGGRAPH 2025, with student volunteers, alumni, and faculty contributing throughout the conference.
Len Lye’s Post Office Films
Ok, so imagine you’re the post office and you need to make three animated shorts to illustrate the following concepts: new parcel rates, …
Forgotten Flintstones on MySpace
Here is one of the best MySpace pages I have seen devoted to a classic cartoon series. Forgotten Flintstones contains a lot of fun …
Free LA Seminar: Flash Animation Essentials
Six Point Harness, one of the up-and-coming Flash animation studios in Los Angeles, is hosting a FREE two-day seminar this weekend (May …
New Animation Bookstore in Toronto
Toronto-area folks now have their own local alternative to Bud Plant and Stuart Ng’s. The Labyrinth is a brand new bookstore specializing …
To Infinity and Beyond
This October, Chronicle Books will release To Infinity and Beyond: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios by Karen Paik and Leslie Iwerks. …
More Classic Animation on DVD
Not to be overlooked in this year of great classic cartoon DVD releases (the The Little King and Cultoons collection is subtitled …
Ward Kimball on You Bet Your Life
At the pace we’re going, by this time next week our site will likely be renamed Kimball Brew. But after seeing the incredible Ward …
Ward Kimball on The Tomorrow Show
As an addendum to our posts on Ward Kimball (can we ever post enough about Kimball?), our pal Don Brockway (Psst, check out his webpage …
Tezuka exhibit in San Fran
In the photo above, the guy on the left is yours truly, Jerry Beck, blathering on about the fine points of American animation to the guy …
R.I.P. Ward Kimball’s Railroad
According to this piece in today’s LA Times, Ward Kimball’s family is dismantling his backyard Grizzly Flats Railroad – one of the major …
Classic LA Cartoonist Photos
Earlier this week, UCLA’s Department of Special Collections unveiled a new searchable website that houses 5,100 hi-res images from the …
Book By Its Cover
Imagine if there was a New York Times Book Review that exclusively covered inspiring art and illustration books. Well, there is such a …
Why? Because we HATE you!
It isn’t everyday that the LA Times prints an editorial that mentions Song of the South (1946) and Alice’s Egg Plant (1925). But that’s …
Lost Filmstrips
Over at CreativePro.com, writer Gene Gable has posted a great series of articles on all aspects of vintage design, discussing everything …
Psst! Pass It On
Psst! Pass It On… is a collaborative filmmaking experiment in which three different creative teams work together to create a 90-second …
More About Disney’s New Shorts Program
From Business Week, this article offers a few new details about Disney’s shorts program. Among the tidbits: * The budgets for these …
Donald Duck Wants You To Use Condoms!
Talk about Duck and Cover! A rare wartime propaganda poster from World War II using Donald Duck to urge soldiers to use condoms (prophylactics), is being auctioned off this month by Hake’s.
New Cinderella Book With Mary Blair Art
Via Didier Ghez’s always informative Disney History blog comes word of a new Cinderella storybook that uses Mary Blair’s concept art from …
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