Animators

Ray Aragon, 1926-2009

Animation artist Ray Aragon passed away on Sunday, March 15, at the age of 83. He had been in poor health in recent months. Aragon was …

Classic

Chuck Jones’ Tom & Jerry

The Chuck Jones Tom & Jerry cartoons of the 1960s are a mixed bag. There are a couple of good ones (I really like The Cat Above, The …

Animators

Bob Givens Interview

Animator, character designer and layout artist Bob Givens (UPA, Warner Bros.) dropped by the Asifa-Hollywood Animation Archive a had a …

Cartoon Culture

Mexican Lobby Cards

A dealer of Mexican movie lobby cards has posted just some of his thousands of pieces online and even created a slide show for some of …

Shorts

The Shooting of Dan McGrew

Jerry has posted a super-rare gem on YouTube: the 1965 short The Shooting of Dan McGrew directed by Ed Graham, Jr. I was so excited about …

Comics

Dumm Comics Roundtable

As written up on the Brew yesterday, Dumm Comics is a new daily comic site launched by some of the today’s top talents working in TV …

TV

The KidMan and Lemon Show

Cartoonist Rex Hackelberg has posted a ton of development artwork that he created for a project called The KidMan and Lemon Show. The …

Books

Book Review: To Infinity and Beyond

To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios (Chronicle Books, 2007) by Karen Paik is exactly the type of book you’d …

Animators

RIP, David Hilberman

ASIFA-San Francisco president Karl Cohen forwarded a note to let us know that UPA co-founder and one of the last of the truly great …

Advertising

UPA-NY TV Spots Donated To MoMA

It was just a couple weeks ago that I was lamenting on the Cartoon Modern blog the unavailability of the UPA commercials. Today I have …

Classic

Bugs Bunny presents…

Okay, this post is only for rabid Warner Bros. cartoon fans desparate to see any lost bits and pieces of animation created by the …

Animators

Chris Ishii’s Lil’ Neebo

I was bummed when animation artist Chris Ishii passed away in 2001 because I’d had his phone number on my desktop for quite a while and …

Old Brew

Woman Power

The title of this post is the headline from a 1943 newspaper article that Hans Perk recently posted on his blog. It’s about Bee Selck, …

Old Brew

A Kitty Bobo Show

It’s nice to see this finally turn up on YouTube. A KITTY BOBO SHOW was a Cartoon Network pilot from 2001 created by Meaghan Dunn and …

Old Brew

Major Disney Exhibit in Paris

I’ve known about this exhibition for a while, but it didn’t occur to me that I should post about it until a friend mentioned that it …

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