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Teletoon Retro’s New Awareness Campaign Invites Consumers to Induct Characters into the Teletoon Retro Hall of Fame
(Toronto, ON, November 11, 2010) — Is Bugs the most beloved or does Tweety take the cake? TELETOON Retro has launched a national …
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The End of the Creator-Driven Era in TV Animation
The Hub, a network owned partly by toy company Hasbro, launched a little over a week ago with new animated series including Strawberry …
5th Annual San Francisco International Animation Festival
SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS FIFTH ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 11—14, SPONSORED BY …
Taiwan’s Next Media Animation
I’ve never written a post fully expressing my appreciation for the Taiwanese animators at Next Media Animation who create news segments …
Pixar’s Up is Blammed
How could you improve Pete Docter’s film Up? Let the brilliant minds at the Disney Channel “blam” the film like they’ve doing with the …
CBTV Student Fest 6: Slim Picking Fat Chances
By David de Rooij and Jelle Brunt. Slim is a saloon owner who suddenly faces competition when a bigger, better saloon opens up.
Toby The Pup in The Showman (1930)
The Holy Grail for many of us cartoon historian-types are the lost RKO Toby The Pup cartoons. Originally released in 1930 and 1931, …
Uncle Grandpa by Peter Browngardt
It was recently brought to my attention that we’ve never posted Uncle Grandpa on Cartoon Brew. We will right that wrong today. The …
Picasso the Cartoonist
The idea that Picasso was as much a cartoonist as fine artist is certainly not original, but it’s never been more evident to me than at …
Miami World Cinema Center
We try to avoid political commentary here on the Brew, but the above by Miami Herald’s Jim Morin is a fine example of the new wave of …
Fleischer Studio in Miami now a Police Station
When the Fleischer Studio moved to Miami in 1938, Paramount built a state of the art studio building for them to create Gulliver’s …
Last Minute Stocking Stuffers
Here are three books I want to bring to your attention – but note: These are strictly for the rabid toon-aholic on your holiday list. …
1939 article on Disney’s Ugly Duckling
Last night a friend gave me an early Christmas gift of an old issue of Street & Smith’s PIC magazine, cover dated April 4th, 1939. PIC is …
ASIFA to honor Tim Burton, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Bruce Timm
ASIFA-Hollywood has announced its Winsor McCay Award recipients for 2009: Tim Burton, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Bruce Timm. The award is …
Canemaker talks McCay at Ohio State
More John Canemaker news! John will present his do-not-miss lecture/screening on the art and life of animation pioneer Winsor McCay …
Random UPA Publicity 1951-1953
Here’s some show-and-tell. I found these odds and ends of UPA publicity at Cinecon, the classic movie convention held in Hollywood over …
Season 2 of The Mighty B! Premieres Today
Painting by Bill Wray Today, Nick is premiering the second season of The Mighty B! at 5:30 p.m (ET/PT). A new episode will debut …
Looney Tunes liqour
I’m all for aiming cartoons towards adult audiences, but here’s one of the strangest Looney Tunes items ever licensed. Currently on ebay …
This Week at the Movies
I was flipping through the paper today – the entertainment section – and came across a trio of the ugliest movie ads I’d ever seen. The …
Lorax and Nimh going CG
What hath Disney’s G-Force wrought? Thanks to its huge opening weekend box office gross, Paramount is fighting back with the Rats of …
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