Classic

Baby Huey

Over the past year I’ve collaborated with Leslie Cabarga on several Dark Horse Books compiling the best stories of the classic Harvey …

Books

Suck It Up, Tate!

It always delights me when animators do their own thing, like publishing sketchbooks, comics, and creating their own characters outside …

Animators

Eric Goldberg Speaks

The cuddliest man in animation, Eric Goldberg, is interviewed on the latest edition of the Animation Podcast. The chat is an hour long, …

Books

San Diego: The Art of Andy

The Art of Andy is a 120-page book of artwork by longtime character designer Andy Suriano (Samurai Jack, Powerpuff Girls and Star Wars: …

Cartoon Culture

Kristen Morgin

Kristen Morgan, an artist and professor at Cal State Long Beach, has a current installation in Hollywood which combines pop culture …

CGI

The Tale of Despereaux Trailer

Here is the trailer for Universal’s CG adaptation of the children’s book The Tales of Despereaux. Sam Fell (Flushed Away) is directing, …

Disney

Ward Kimball on CinemaScope

Several years ago I curated a program of CinemaScope cartoon shorts from the 1950s, which I screened at the Ottawa Animation Festival, …

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 …

Anime

Speed Racer Goes Crazy

The Wachowski Brothers Speed Racer movie opens this week. I hope the new film is as much fun as the video below. In it, Speed Racer goes …

Events

Pictoplasma NYC in September

Pictoplasma is moving its conference on contemporary character design from Berlin to NYC this year. The two-day event will take place …

Classic

A Cookie model sheet

A Brew reader sent me this link from ebay, wondering ‘what year this Betty Boop model sheet was from, or did the seller mis-identify this …

Internet/Blogs

Mike Nguyen’s blog

Mike Nguyen is one of the best traditional character animators I know. Fiercely independent, Mike’s working on his own feature film …

Feature Film

Kung Fu Panda kicks ass!

I see a lot of animated features in advance and, for the most part, keep my opinions to myself until the movie is in general release. …

Disney

Return of the Gremlins

Dark Horse Comics has announced a Disney Gremlins book-signing taking place next week. A special signing at the Disney Soda Fountain and …

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