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 …

Flash

Superjail

Seemingly the funniest and cartooniest animated projects nowadays are set in jails. There’s the Japanese CG series Usavich, which was …

Animators

Adventure Time T-Shirts

UPDATE: More details about new Adventure Time merchandise here. I was a fan of Pen Ward’s warped cartoon genius before I saw his two …

Events

In New York

I’m in New York today and having a blast with barely any time to read email or blog. The weather is really beautiful this week and that …

Events

Jerry @ Platform

In two weeks, the Platform International Animation Festival will commence in Portland Oregon. Amid and I will both be there, and I urge …

Events

Nicktoons Animation Festival

I don’t normally endorse corporate animation contests, but the one my friend Rita Street has been co-producing (with Frederator, the …

Advertising

Fox’s Oleg

Last week the Wall Street Journal ran an article about a new animated series on Fox called Oleg the Taxi Man. The cartoons, however, are …

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 …

Books

New Animation Magazines

Two new animation magazines appeared in my mailbox last week. Both are very well done, though aimed at completely different …

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 …

Old Brew

Animation Still Key At Nickelodeon

While Cartoon Network continues to abandon cartoons in favor of live-action productions, this article in yesterday’s NY TIMES reaffirms …

Old Brew

The Less You Know…

Below is an excerpt from an ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE article about the new Cartoon Network series CLASS OF 3000. In it, the show’s …

Old Brew

HORNSWIGGLE LIMITED EDITION

Hornswiggle, the cartoon short I produced for Frederator’s Random Cartoons show, will be broadcast on Nickelodeon sometime in 2007. The …

Old Brew

Most Ironic Exec Quote of the Week

We’ve known since April that Cartoon Network is abandoning its original programming charter and slowly moving into producing live-action …

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