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STILL MORE COMIC CON PLUGS

BREW Co-editor Jerry Beck has two more comic con highlights to plug:#1 Wonderful World of Animation Art gallery (booth #215) along with …

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How To ruin Your Weekend

Here’s a link to the SHARK TALE trailer where Jeffrey Katzenberg enthralls audiences with a fish who does an impression of MC Hammer and …

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MORE COMIC CON NOTES

Two more events of interest have been brought to our attention:DreamWorks Animation will have a booth (#4321) which will screen …

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FLEISCHER POPEYE PENCIL TEST

FOX has just scheduled the all-new half-hour CGI special “Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy” for telecast on Sunday, Dec. 19. King …

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MY COMIC CON PLANS

The San Diego Comic Con is so huge (80,000+ people expected this year), so overwhelming, so impossible to meet up with friends that I’m …

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Recent Animation Books

Chris F. writes to ask if I ever heard of the book/DVD set, FLIPS 7, which presents the work of some dozen-and-half modern animation …

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Twisted Pride

Jonathan Groff, exec producer of the forthcoming NBC series FATHER OF THE PRIDE, explains why they’re producing the show in CG animation: …

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HELLO KITTY CATBOT

Be afraid. Be very afraid.A Hello Kitty robot is going on sale in November. Equipped with an ultra-sound sensor and camera, the …

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Presidential Material

Following up on Fred Crippen’s commercial for the Kennedy campaign which I mentioned a couple days ago, here’s a cool photo of Fred and …

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Melbourne Animation Fest Thoughts

Russell Degnan has a nice REPORT from the Melbourne International Animation Festival with mini-reviews of the films and retrospective …

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Just another day at the office

A couple of electronic bugging devices were found in Michael Eisner’s Disney office last week, according to the anonymous LA blogger A …

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MINTZ-COLUMBIA STAFF PICTURES

Our buddy Mike Van Eaton at the wonderful Van Eaton Gallery on Ventura Blvd in Sherman Oaks, California recently came up with this …

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Life After Disney

Timothy Albee moved to Alaska after working on Disney’s DINOSAUR and created his own 22-minute CG short called KAZE, GHOST WARRIOR. He …

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UCLA FESTIVAL OF PRESERVATION

Every two years the UCLA Film and Television Archives opens it’s vaults and presents it’s latest restorations to the public in a gala …

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Foster’s and Teenage Robot Links

Here’s the official website for Craig McCracken’s new Flash animated series FOSTER’S HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS which debuts on Cartoon …

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CLINTON’S FAVORITE CARTOONS

Bill Clinton likes Warner Bros. & Paramount cartoons!According to his best-selling autobiography, MY LIFE, in chapter three recalling his …

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STEAMBOY TRAILER

I am personally very excited about the forthcoming new feature from Katsuhiro Otomo (AKIRA): STEAMBOY. If you haven’t seen the trailer, …

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LEGO SPIDERMAN

This is terrific!Columbia Pictures and Lego produced a wonderful stop motion piece by Tim Drage and Tony Mines (of Spite Your Face …

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