Cartoon Culture

Current U.S. Postage Stamps

Anyone been to the post office lately? Anyone still use snail mail? The postage stamps have gotten a lot better — even if I have no …

Site News

Welcome to Cartoon Brew 2.5

Welcome to our updated look. As the title of this post implies, this is not a complete overhaul. Rather it’s a refresh of the existing …

Old Brew

Linda Simensky

Linda Simensky is currently Senior Director of Children’s Programming for PBS. Simensky began her career with a nine-year tenure at …

Old Brew

Eric Goldberg

Eric Goldberg, a veteran Director, Designer and Animator, has worked extensively in New York, London and Hollywood creating feature …

Shorts

Mike Grimshaw’s Quiet Please

As a response to YouTube’s takedown of Signe Baumane’s animated short, Canadian animation director Mike Grimshaw has posted an old film …

Feature Film

Screening Waltz With Bashir

Today’s L.A. Times features a story on Waltz With Bashir, the sure-to-be-controversial animated feature from Israel, being screened at …

Animators

Bill Melendez 1916-2008

Bill Melendez, the Mexican-born American character animator, film director, and film producer, best known for his animation for Warner …

Feature Film

Trailers From Hell: Dirty Duck

Last year Joe Dante (Looney Tunes Back In Action) established a terrific website called Trailers From Hell, featuring audio commentary by …

Comics

Kim Deitch at MoCCA

A major retrospective of work by underground cartoonist Kim Deitch opens at New York’s Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art on September 9th. …

Classic

Saul Bass on Titles

A 35-minute collection of classic Saul Bass film titles with narration and insights by Bass himself: (via Smashing Telly)

Flash

Organs

It’s Labor Day in the United States. I’m still at Cinecon. What better way to spend a holiday than with the latest from that looney …

Animators

Weekend Inspiration

As we head into the long holiday weekend, I thought it’d be nice to take a moment and share some inspiring images I’ve run across this …

Shorts

3038 Photos in 3 Days

A kid in Boston, Robbie, took just over 3000 digital photos in three days documenting his life in and around the city, and then compiled …

Shorts

Procrastination by Johnny Kelly

Excellent mixed-media student short by Johnny Kelly of the Royal College of Art. I was going to post it last weekend, but, well, you know…

Cartoon Culture

LP Cover Lover

I’ve really been enjoying the posts over at the LP Cover Lover blog. Matthew and Tony have been posting images of their incredible …

Classic

Popeye in 3-D??

I found this on You Tube. Someone took a public domain Popeye cartoon and created a anaglyph 3D version of it… or tried to. It’s not …

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