Ideas/Commentary

An Open Letter

Dear AOL/MSN/Yahoo/NBC-Universal and News Corp., Congratulations on the news of your new company to compete with YouTube. The …

Ideas/Commentary

Russian Pooh

Russian animation director Fyodor Khitruk once said in an interview that the best award he ever received was when Disney director Woolie …

Events

Janet Klein

Once again this Thursday night – and every first Thursday of the each month – Jerry Beck will be the opening act for Janet Klein & …

Classic

Cool McCool

Cool McCool was not a great cartoon show. In fact, it was downright poor. Created by Bob Kane (of Batman and Courageous Cat fame), and …

TV

Purple And Brown

A lot of Aardman’s work in recent years has been too slick and labored for its own good, but one of their new series marks a wonderful …

Old Brew

Adventure Time

If you couldn’t make it to the ASIFA-Hollywood screening of Frederator’s new Random Cartoons last night, here’s some good news. They’ve …

Old Brew

Zagreb Film

What happens when a bunch of young animation artists are given their own animation studio and assigned to create hundreds of animated …

Old Brew

SID RAYMOND 1909-2006

Mark Evanier is the first to note the passing of my friend Sid Raymond. Raymond was best known as the voice of Baby Huey and Katnip for …

Old Brew

Oswald To Get Lucky in 2007

One of the most interesting animation stories of ’06 took place last February when Disney acquired the rights to one of Walt’s earliest …

Old Brew

WORST. PEANUTS. EVER.

Did you know Charlie Brown’s parents were organ donors? When Charles M. Schulz agreed to using Peanuts characters for MetLife’s …

Old Brew

DATE WITH DIZZY (1956)

What an awesome way to start a Monday morning! Josh of the Jazz:Animated blog has posted onto YouTube the difficult-to-find 1956 John …

Old Brew

Jan Svochak (1926-2006)

J.J. Sedelmaier sends us this sad news:I just wanted to let you and others know that Jan Svochak passed away yesterday afternoon. He was …

Old Brew

RANDOM SIZZLE REEL

The 5-minute clip reel shown last month at the San Diego Comic Con for Frederator’s new series of Random Cartoons has been posted on You …

Old Brew

ADOLF – DER BONKER

Animated cartoons with a point of view on current world wars and the political scene are relatively scarce compared to the days of World …

Classic

Fleischer At The Trocadero

Dave Fleischer left Miami based Fleischer Studios in 1942 and bolted to the west coast where he was offered the job of producer, …

Old Brew

JITTERBUG FOLLIES (1939)

My name is Amid and I’m a YouTube addict. I can’t help it. There’s so much great animation being posted on that site and I’ve just got to …

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