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Disturbing Disney Toys from Japan

Don’t ask…because I don’t know. UPDATE: Mike Guerrero writes to let me know these are called Cubees, and they’re produced by a company …

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RARE BUGS BUNNY CLIP

You won’t see this as bonus material on the LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION dvd series. Here is the rare 1944 George Pal Puppetoon, Jasper …

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BITTER FILMS DVD

Don Hertzfeldt writes us:I thought the cartoon brewery might like a heads-up about the big Bitter Films dvd due for release this summer. …

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ARGLE BARGLE

Self-professed “animator, actor, comics artist, archivist, director, collector, writer, historian, painter, packrat, recluse, hermit, …

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Annecy 2006

I’m back. Thanks to Jerry for holding down the fort and keeping the Brew updated while I was having an awesome time in Marseille and …

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1960s THEATRICAL CARTOONS

John McElwee, on his Greenbriar Picture Shows blog, recalls the horror of 1960s theatrical cartoon shorts:These were dark days for …

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BEFORE WALT

For years, Ray Pointer of Inkwell Images has been compiling the best of early American cartoon art and preserving animation history …

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THE ACT

We’ve come a long way since Dragon’s Lair. Disney animator Broose Johnson has been applying his talents to a neat new interactive …

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ARF MUSEUM

Last year I raved about Craig Yoe’s Modern Arf, but I just got a copy of Yoe’s follow up, Arf Museum, and it’s even better. Is it a book? …

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POPEYE ON DVD

Here’s the news I’ve been dying to announce for over 20 years.Warner Bros. and King Features have come to an agreement – at long last – …

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A SHORT NOTE ABOUT CARS

Animated humanoid automobiles aren’t new – (Friz Freleng’s STREAMLINED GRETA GREEN (1937), Tex Avery’s ONE CAB’S FAMILY (1952), and …

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Fleet Street Scandal

I don’t usually plug non-animation artists here on Brew, but the work of Kevin Dart and Chris Turnham really appeals to me. They have …

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NORM?

“To Sally, from one of her men – Norm”Norm who? Any ideas? Norm McCabe? Collector Gordon Reid found this still (click on it for larger …

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JANET KLEIN PLUG

Regular Brew readers already know that once a month (the first Thursday of each month) Jerry Beck shows vintage 16mm musical shorts and …

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C’MON GET HAPPY!

Don’t barf!A groovy new blog called Mondo Daddykin is posting the bubblegum soundtracks to 1960-70s series like Partridge Family 2200 …

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