Classic

Who owns Betty Boop?

Apparently the Fleischer estate has lost a court battle for the rights to Betty Boop, a character created by Grim Natwick at Max …

Business

Titmouse opens a studio in New York

Animation studio Titmouse (Metalocalypse, Megas XLR) has opened a New York studio in the Tribeca district of Manhattan. The image above …

Events

Jerry’s Labor Day Weekend

There’s a holiday weekend coming up – and as usual, I’ll be spending most of it in a darkened theatre – starting tonight! I’ll …

Site News

Cartoon Brew version 3.0

Welcome to the updated Cartoon Brew. This was an important redesign for us. We wanted to make the site more useful for regular readers …

Cartoon Culture

The Devastator #1

In this era of the websites, blogs and apps, Geoffrey Golden and Amanda Meadows are going against the trends and have started up a new …

Illustration

Frank Frazetta (1928-2010)

His involvement with the animation world was relatively brief, but his inspiration to artists, animators and cartoonists, world over, …

Classic

Allen Swift (1924-2010)

Gene Deitch just informed us of the passing of his long-time personal friend Allen Swift. Swift (born Ira Stadlen) was best known for …

Ideas/Commentary

Dear Sesame Street

Dear Sesame Street, We, the undersigned, would like to register our concern over the contest you are now conducting with Aniboom. We …

Books

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. …

Events

Christmas Cartoon Chaos!

Just a reminder, I’m hosting two (count ’em 2) Christmas Cartoon Parties this week: 1. CARTOON DUMP – our annual Christmas special is …

Events

3 Jerry Events to Note

I’ll be plugging these again as we get closer to each, but here’s an early heads-up on three events coming up that I’ll be producing …

Events

Day Two: CTN Expo with Don & Gary

And on the Second Day, the CTN Expo became Comic Con for animators. Day 2 at CTN-X was wall-to-wall with attendees, standing room …

Events

New dates for Cartoon Dump

Shhhh…. We are having a top secret performance of Cartoon Dump this month. Why top secret? Because the date was shifted around with …

Events

Notes from the Comic Con

I’m just back from “Comic Con” aka the San Diego Comic Con (for the record, I refuse to call it Comic Con International) and, all said …

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