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Weekend Brew Review
For some unknown reason, people are always asking me for advice on pitching a series or getting a job in animation. If I knew how to do …
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“Duck-ticks and Catapults” by Almir Correia
Think American TV animation is bad? What if you tried to sell a series about ticks with duck beaks, who catapult their way around the …
Saturday Book Review
If you ever wished one of the creators of a cartoon series on Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network would just explain everything about how they …
Disney’s Annie Awards Withdrawal
Last Wednesday we posted a link from Variety in our Industry Headlines column (at right), Disney Withdraws from Annie Awards, which …
Disney interview in TV Guide (1961)
Yesterday, I had a chance to once again plow into Stuart Shostak’s extensive archive of TV Guide back issues. This time I found two parts …
Animation Collective Gets Sued by Artist Over “Ellen’s Acres”
Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that Brooklyn-based animation artist Kelly Denato (above left), is suing the New York studio …
Women In Animation Annual Meeting: Thriving Indies
Women In Animation International (WIA) has lined up a panel of indie executives, for a discussion titled Thriving Indies, to be presented …
Directors of Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks Films
Even though I’ve always been aware of the dominance of CalArts alumni within the West Coast industry, I was still surprised to see the …
Interview: Chris Dainty and Super Star Tap
As the iPhone user base continues to expand, smaller animation studios and indie animators are discovering a promising new distribution …
Toon Funeral Home
Illustrator Joe Fournier spotted this worrisome sign in Illinois. [Insert your Cartoon Network jokes here.]
2009 Annie Award Nominees by Category
PRODUCTION CATEGORIES Best Animated Feature Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs — Sony Pictures Animation Coraline — …
Teletoon’s Detour pilots
I don’t know if these will be as exciting as CN’s unaired Cartoonstitute pilots we featured a while back, but Canada’s Teletoon network …
Wild Brain SF Shuts Down, Special Agent Opens for Business
Earlier this week, Wild Brain co-founder Phil Robinson and Wild Brain producer Amy Capen officially announced the launch of a boutique …
My Trip To Korea
I just got back from Seoul, Korea, where I spoke at a conference called DICON 2009, a digital conference that was part of the …
Lost Tom & Jerry title cards
Fellow animation historian David Gerstein is on a roll. He’s followed up his discovery of the lost ending to the Bugs Bunny …
Joseph Holt
Layout artist and background painter Joseph Holt has started a new blog featuring loads of his production artwork from from the late-’90s …
The Upstate Four: An Interview with Fran and Will Krause
. The Upstate Four (viewable in two parts above) is an eleven-minute Cartoon Network pilot created by brothers Fran Krause and Will …
F5 Conference Ticket Giveaway
“This isn’t ‘another design conference.’ It’s a meeting of great minds,” tout the promo materials for F5, a conference that takes …
The Last Terrytoon one-shot
I’m back with another lame attempt by a classic cartoon studio to be relevant in the 1960s. Today I’ve got what I believe is the last …
The Electric Company (2009)
Hey You Guys! Following will be some shameless PBS promotion, but I say that more as a fan than as a corporate cog. By now, you have …
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