Books

Jerry’s Tuesday Triple Header

Take your pick: yours truly, Jerry Beck, will appear on stage, on screen and in print tomorrow, Tuesday October 21st. In Print: …

Events

Richard Williams at MoMA

A can’t-miss event is coming up in NY. Richard Williams will appear at the Museum of Modern Art on Monday, September 22. He will discuss …

Site News

Welcome to Cartoon Brew 2.5

Welcome to our updated look. As the title of this post implies, this is not a complete overhaul. Rather it’s a refresh of the existing …

Old Brew

Eric Goldberg

Eric Goldberg, a veteran Director, Designer and Animator, has worked extensively in New York, London and Hollywood creating feature …

Animators

Bill Melendez 1916-2008

Bill Melendez, the Mexican-born American character animator, film director, and film producer, best known for his animation for Warner …

Animators

Bakshi Talk

Tied in to the release of the new book about his life, BlackBook magazine offers a no-holds-barred interview with Ralph Bakshi. I’m not a …

Disney

Hattie Noel as Hyacinth Hippo

This post got deleted during our troublesome server upgrade last week so I’ll try it again. As a followup to a post earlier this month, …

Disney

John Lasseter in the NY Times

Yesterday’s New York Times featured an interview with John Lasseter and some interesting bits can be gleaned from the article. One thing …

Old Brew

Persepolis

“When my parents came to the studio, nobody breathed. Imagine you are drawing Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, and suddenly a big mouse and …

Old Brew

NY TIMES on the CG Glut

The NY TIMES published a piece today about the glut of poorly performing animated CG films. That’s hardly news to anybody working the …

Old Brew

RIK MAKI AT MELTDOWN

After the 3-D cartoons at the Egyptian tomorrow afternoon, I recommend bopping over to Meltdown Comics at 7522 Sunset Blvd. where, from …

Old Brew

3-D CARTOON FESTIVAL

I’m telling you for the last time! Tomorrow afternoon, Saturday September 16th at 3:30pm, a once in a lifetime screening of all six …

Old Brew

A Monster of a Review

A prominent Pixar animator emailed me last night with the subject header “This is real” and a link to this must-read-to-believe SAN …

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LA TIMES on MONSTER HOUSE

It’s hardly an everday occurrence that an unknown twenty-something walks into a major studio and is assigned to direct a big-budget …

Old Brew

A LOST WARNER BROS. CARTOON

Thanks to the restoration efforts of Warner Home Video, and the series of Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD sets, there are (or will be) …

Old Brew

RIK MAKI AT VAN EATON GALLERIES

Rik Maki began his career as a baseball pitcher in the minor leagues for seven years before trading in his wooden bat for a wooden …

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