Animation Resolutions
Greetings Brew Readers, I’m really honored to be joining Cartoon Brew and the likes of Jerry and Amid for the month of January. (The …
Greetings Brew Readers, I’m really honored to be joining Cartoon Brew and the likes of Jerry and Amid for the month of January. (The …
Back on October 7th I wrote about the new book DAWS BUTLER: CHARACTERS ACTOR, the official biography of the voice of Yogi Bear and …
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.Cablevision has decided to suspend its Voom satellite service, which included the ANIMANIA channel …
Willoughby’s Magic Hat (1943)The family of cartoonist Sam Cobean have just set up a new website, Sam Cobean’s World, featuring many of …
THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE isn’t THE INCREDIBLES, and I don’t mean that in a negative way. The film has a simpler goal: make the …
I just read this piece in Hollywood Reporter. It is typical of Hollywood’s constant astonishment with Pixar and the success of THE …
One of the most exciting developments in the on-line animation world as of late is the emergence of animation artist blogs. These have …
One of the most essential animation reference works ever created is E.O. Costello’s Warner Bros. Cartoon Companion–a remarkably erudite …
(From POPEYE FOR PRESIDENT, 1956) I scarcely need remind anyone that today is one of the most important days in the history of American …
Sony officially announced it’s intent to buy MGM this week. To raise the billion-dollar plus asking price needed to make the purchase, …
And now, the conclusion of our exclusive John Kricfalusi interview. The first part was posted HERE last week. Before we begin, be sure to …
An interesting thought occured to me as I was reading this intense exchange of cartoon ideologies between John Kricfalusi and …
POPEYE: An Illustrated Cultural History into a slightly larger, 337 page revised edition. It’s a true improvement over his previous …
David Raksin, who scored several classic UPA cartoons in the 1950s, including The Unicorn in the Garden, Madeline, Sloppy Jalopy and …
In addition to the previously noted JOHN K. extravaganza on September 7th & 8th (which I will update further in the weeks ahead), the …
I had a great time at the San Diego Comic Con this year.The convention is so big, so massive, so overwhelming – it’s like an annual …
Ralph Bakshi discusses his role with the 1960’s SPIDER-MAN TV cartoons in the Toronto Globe and Mail.
I’d originally planned to write daily reports from Annecy, but there’s so much to see and do here that I’m not exactly finding a whole …
Sunday’s LA TIMES had a short piece on the new Linkin Park music video “Breaking the Habit” which was supervised (and according to the …