Books

My First Imperial ABC

I had the pleasure of meeting animator Jakob Jensen over this past weekend. Jensen has worked in the animation industry since the age of …

Animators

Adventure Time T-Shirts

UPDATE: More details about new Adventure Time merchandise here. I was a fan of Pen Ward’s warped cartoon genius before I saw his two …

Books

It’s a Cartoon Modern World

Dear Brew readers, please indulge this shameless late-night post. I discovered a new fact tonight: nothing perks one up at 1:30am like …

Shorts

Visions of Frank dvd

Visions of Frank is a dvd that came out last year collecting eight animated shorts by Japanese animators, all based on Jim Woodring’s …

Shorts

Oscar Possibilities

Circulating amongst the animation blogs this past week was a very shortlist of possible nominees in the Animation Short Film category. …

Disney

New Pixar Little Golden Book

I’ve been going ga-ga over the Disney and Pixar Little Golden Books for several years now. Jenny Lerew tipped us off to the new …

Books

New Book by Chris Robinson

Chris Robinson’s Canadian Animation: Looking for A Place to Happen is one more to add to the list of animation books I’m looking forward …

Feature Film

Coraline clip

Our buddy Ward Jenkins has a holiday treat posted up at Drawn! It’s a tiny mouth-watering clip from the new Henry Selick/Neil Gaiman …

Books

Hans Bacher’s Dream Worlds

A happy note to close out this year’s animation book releases: Hans Bacher’s eagerly anticipated book about animation production design, …

Classic

Viking Eggeling

I’m currently reading Matthew Gale’s Dada & Surrealism, an entertaining and authoritative primer on two of the most important, yet …

Books

Escape!

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

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 …

Events

LA: Takashi Murakami at MOCA

For decades, the animation art form has been shunned by the mainstream art establishment, but it seems as if we are slowly witnessing a …

Feature Film

“Beowulf” Blitzer

Two animated films led the U.S. Box office this weekend: Beowulf came in first place, and Bee Movie is holding strong in second …

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