Day Two: CTN Expo with Don & Gary
And on the Second Day, the CTN Expo became Comic Con for animators. Day 2 at CTN-X was wall-to-wall with attendees, standing room …
And on the Second Day, the CTN Expo became Comic Con for animators. Day 2 at CTN-X was wall-to-wall with attendees, standing room …
I got into a discussion with a friend last week about the horrible theatrical cartoons of the 1960s. I call them “drive-in cartoons” …
ASIFA-Hollywood has announced its Winsor McCay Award recipients for 2009: Tim Burton, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Bruce Timm. The award is …
Veteran animation director Gene Deitch and his wife Zdenka were invited to the Xiamen International Animation Festival (Oct. 30th-Nov. …
The Three Caballeros will always hold a place in my heart. As a child of the 1960s and early 70s, at a time when my class mates were …
We’ve got a new short on Cartoon Brew TV today: Together! (2009) directed by David Sheahan. This was a thesis film created at Pratt …
Two separate independent projects, with little in common outside of both being made essentially by one person, each with a lot of …
Here’s some show-and-tell. I found these odds and ends of UPA publicity at Cinecon, the classic movie convention held in Hollywood over …
I just got back from Seoul, Korea, where I spoke at a conference called DICON 2009, a digital conference that was part of the …
Walt and El Grupo is the new feature length documentary about the two month tour of South America that Walt and his staff (which included …
Walter Lantz animated a short sequence for the Universal feature King Of Jazz (released 3/30/30). The sequence is notable as the first …
Bob Clampett was a genius. And if you need further proof, the long-awaited Beany and Cecil: The Special Edition Vol. 2 dispenses it …
Today, two of the biggest names in animation–John Kricfalusi and Bill Plympton–each announced that they were starting up classes to …
The LA Times has a huge front page story in it’s Business section today, reporting on Cartoon Network’s recent programming gamble on live …
Here’s a rare treat for Fleischer Studio fans – or anyone interested in clever, cartoon story-telling: the latest issue of The Comics …
I’m just back from “Comic Con” aka the San Diego Comic Con (for the record, I refuse to call it Comic Con International) and, all said …
Here is the first of Cartoon Brew’s guides to the 2009 San Diego Comic Con. These are only my recommended animation panels for Thursday …
Thurop Van Orman, the creator of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, posted an entry earlier this week on his deviantART page, in …
Scott Bradley is best known for his cartoon compositions for MGM, but he also worked for Walter Lantz once.
Michael Sporn’s Splog is a daily must-read for anyone interested in cartoons, their history and the experiences of a life-long New York …