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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. …
Previously on Cartoon Brew
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 …
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.
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 …
Droopy on DVD: Uncut and DVNR’d
David Mackenzie has gotten his hands on the hotly anticipated dvd set Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection, slated for release on …
Iranian Animation Legend Banned From Teaching
Noureddin Zarrinkelk, one of Iran’s most celebrated animation figures and a fine art professor at Tehran University, was thrown out of …
Rare SNAFU/Wartime Animation Art Found
A Hollywood production artist, part-time performer and animator, Paul Manchester, has inherited a cache of rare World War II animation …
Animation Writing Roundup
The most interesting writing and interviews about animation can no longer be found in any particular magazine; rather it’s spread out …
Best. Song. Ever.
It’s too bad You Feets To Big had to be removed from You Tube. In it’s place we present, direct from the aforementioned Beijing …
Beany & Cecil Boards by Bruce Timm
File this under “Weird Things I’ve Accumulated Over the Years.” While cleaning out some boxes recently, I ran across photocopies of a …
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