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Note To Don Bluth

RE: Your new “Scissor Sisters” music videoNobody wants to see a male striptease in animation…EVER.PS: The year is 2004, not 1984. Stop

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Reykjavik Gourmet

Thursday, July 29, 2004_________________________ The alert reader will once again notice that six days have passed since my last entry. …

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DREW CAREY’S GREEN SCREEN

We are overdue in mentioning Drew Carey’s Green Screen Show. It’s been on for two weeks now (Thursday nights at 8:30pm on The WB Network) …

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Home, Sweet (Icelandic) Home

Friday, July 23, 2004_________________________ The alert reader will notice that there was no description of yesterday’s events. We …

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Ren & Stimpy Uncut?

Apparently the new REN & STIMPY: THE COMPLETE FIRST & SECOND SEASONS — UNCUT are not exactly uncut. Though the edits seem relatively …

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First Brando, now Chris Reeve…

When Brando died, he left behind an embarassing voice track for an awful looking animated film. Apparently Kal-El is following in …

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Hey Hey Hey …. It’s Crap!

Marvel at the mind-numbing unfunniness of the latest cartoon-turned-live bomb FAT ALBERT. The most telling example of what passes for …

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More Girl Graffiti

Ward Jenkins, a talented director and designer at Atlanta’s Primal Screen who I finally met in Ottawa last week after many email …

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Prehistoric Rice

Katie Rice (aka ‘KatieNice’), currently working as a designer on Disney’s MAGGIE THE MAGGOT series, has posted a handful of …

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SURVEY RESULTS

According to the results of a just-released survey on behalf of Boomerang UK, Tom & Jerry are the most popular cartoon characters of …

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From Beautiful Downtown Burbank

Gary Owens, the voice of Roger Ramjet, Space Ghost and Powdered Toast Man, has a new book out called HOW TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS WITH …

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DVD Plugs

A few DVD’s of note that I’ve received in the mail recently: Politics and animation always seem to mix nicely, and the on-line short …

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Independent Japanese Animation

Last month I sung the praises of Benjamin Ettinger’s anime blog AniPages Daily, but it’s worth doing again. During the past couple weeks, …

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FRANK THOMAS (1912-2004)

Frank Thomas, the second-to-last surviving member of Disney’s “Nine Old Men” group of supervising animators, passed away on September 8, …

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Why Jaime Hates Family Guy

Jaime J. Weinman is a fine writer who discusses cartoons intelligently on his blog Something Old, Nothing New alongside a variety of …

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Introducing Ken Pontac

We’re excited to announce the return of guest blogging here at Cartoon Brew. It’s a fairly straightforward concept. Jerry and I don’t …

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TOONFEST IN MARCELINE

If you happen to be wandering near Walt Disney’s hometown – Marceline, Missouri – on Saturday September 18th, you might stop in on the …

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More on S&P

The post I made last weekend about Standards & Practices has drawn a couple responses worth pointing out. Writer/producer Mark Evanier …

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