Animators

Bill Littlejohn Interview

Above: Bill Littlejohn at Playhouse Pictures in 1962 Whenever I’m depressed about the state of contemporary animation, I think about …

Books

Inside UPA: A Cartoon Brew Book

Today I’m pleased to announce the upcoming publication of the first-ever Cartoon Brew book. Inside UPA is a 64-page volume offering an …

Animators

Fons Schiedon

Dutch animator and illustrator Fons Schiedon has a lot of impressive work on his website FonzTV.nl, and none more so than the educational …

Disney

A Tribute to some Disney Heroes

Van Eaton Galleries, in conjunction with the Creative Talent Network, is holding a unique event featuring a tribute to some of Disney …

Disney

Fresh-Up Freddie

Lest we forget: This year marks the anniversary of Disney’s biggest commercial cartoon star: Fresh-Up Freddie. It was fifty years ago …

Events

Cartoon Dump tonight!

A quick little plug for our Cartoon Dump live comedy show tonight in Hollywood. Join us at 8pm.

Classic

Harman & Ising VD film

As long as we are exploring The Smoking Gun – check out this mainly live action, somewhat campy, obscure educational film by Hugh Harman …

Cartoon Culture

Mug Shots

The Smoking Gun presents an assortment of iconic American cartoon stars depicted on the shirts of these recent arrestees. (Thanks, …

Shorts

Paradise by Jesse Rosensweet

The NFB has already released one terrifically original stop-motion film this year—Madame Tutli-Putli—and next …

Feature Film

The Pixar Story

Starting today, an Oscar qualifying one week engagement of Leslie Iwerks new feature documentary The Pixar Story will be screening at …

Feature Film

Augenblick Animates The Ten

Animation Magazine has a good article about the new art house movie The Ten and the Flash-animated sequence in it produced by Augenblick …

Internet/Blogs

Dead Animators on MySpace

A bit of a curious trend worth noting is the growing number of MySpace pages dedicated to legendary animation artists. While the pages …

Internet/Blogs

Brew Radio Today!

Brewmaster Jerry Beck will be broadcasting again, live on Shokus Internet Radio today, Wednesday August 22nd from 4pm to 6pm Pacific time …

Events

CARTOON DUMP – LIVE!

Starting next Tuesday, Frank Conniff and I will presenting our live comedy show, Cartoon Dump, once a month at the Steve Allen Theatre in …

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