Previously on Cartoon Brew

Old Brew

HILARIOUS SNOWMAN SPOOF

Brew reader Arthur writes about this funny and well done commercial spoof of the classic British holiday special THE SNOWMAN: To promote …

Old Brew

NY TIMES on New Disney Shorts

Yesterday’s NEW YORK TIMES had an article by Charles Solomon about Disney’s new plan to produce animated short. The article states that …

Old Brew

ANNIE AWARD NOMINEES

The nominees for the 34th Annual Annie Awards have been announced. The complete list is posted here. Here’s a sampling of some of the …

Old Brew

SID RAYMOND 1909-2006

Mark Evanier is the first to note the passing of my friend Sid Raymond. Raymond was best known as the voice of Baby Huey and Katnip for …

Old Brew

Classic Animation on Flickr

Today marks the launch of the Animation History Archive on Flickr, a new group I started where we can all share interesting visual bits …

Old Brew

CEREAL:GEEK

Not my favorite decade for animation, but James Eatock of Busta Toons Productions (the folks behind the He Man/She Ra blog) is starting …

Old Brew

ONE GOT FAT

It’s been a Ralph Hulett kind of week around here. First it was his Christmas cards, now here’s a link to ONE GOT FAT, a bizarre …

Old Brew

BEWITCHED

Here is everything you ever wanted to know about BEWITCHED – the 1964-1972 ABC TV comedy series about a regular guy who marries to a …

Old Brew

DISNEY LAYS OFF 160

Hmmm… the trade papers usually don’t post new stories over the weekend. Here’s one that popped up this morning in The Hollywood …

Old Brew

BREWSTER ROCKIT

Brewster Rockit is a very funny sci-fi parody comic strip running in the L.A. Times and many other papers accross the country (via …

Old Brew

BLIP

I came across this commercial for BLIP, the digital game, while I was transfering to DVD some cartoon shows I taped in 1980. It’s not …

Old Brew

ONE BAD NOTE

Have you ever wondered what Chuck Jones’s HIGH NOTE (1960) would look like if it was remade in CG? Well, neither have I, but somebody …

Old Brew

A Ralph Hulett Christmas

While Eyvind Earle is the best known of the Disney artists who illustrated Christmas cards, a number of other Disney artists had …

Old Brew

MINGY PUSS

Either Makinita (a.k.a. independent cartoonist Andres Silva, in Ecuador) is a demented genius – or just demented. You decide:Also check …

Old Brew

New Blogs By Harding & Tsutsumi

A couple talented animation folk have redesigned their websites to incorporate journal/blogs: Indie filmmaker Chris Harding (of LEARN …

Old Brew

The Greatest Animation Event Ever?

Animation festivals are fine nowadays, but I can’t think of any event that could possibly compare to the Montreal Expo’s World Exhibition …

Old Brew

LIVE-ACTION ANIME FROM 1960

Here’s an oddity I just had to share. If you thought a live-action Flintstones was a bad idea, check this out. A live action Japanese …

978 of 1107