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Alone, Stinking & Unafraid: Screen Test Dummies
In this new edition of Alone, Stinking & Unafraid, Chris Robinson, the Artistic Director of the Ottawa International Animation Festival, …
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Punk Mickey Vinyls
We’ve highlighted this new trend before. The high-end, urban fashion vinyl dolls not aimed at the kids or the Disneyland family crowd. …
The Animation Show on iTunes
Last week our friends at The Animation Show started selling independent animated shorts on Apple’s iTunes. The films from their touring …
Golden Book Art at Disneyland
It’s rare for this website to promote a visit to Disneyland twice within the same week, but we’ve just recieved word from artist Kevin …
Homage or Rip-off?
“Homage or Rip-off” should be a new category on Cartoon Brew. Certainly we have enough material. In the comments of the Lee Lennox’s …
The Fly by Ferenc Rofusz
Another contemporary animation classic on YouTube. This 1980 Hungarian short by Ferenc Rofusz won an Oscar. Hungary was at the …
Coo-Coo for Cocoa Puffs
A few weeks ago I posted about Chuck McCann and mentioned his memorable voice work as Sonny and Gramps in the original 1960s Cocoa Puffs …
Thorndyke on Mercer and Crandall
Here’s an oddity. I found a copy of cartoonist Chuck Thorndyke’s 1939 book The Business of Cartooning: The Success Stories of the …
Russian Pooh
Russian animation director Fyodor Khitruk once said in an interview that the best award he ever received was when Disney director Woolie …
The Girls at Disneyland
Here’s a reason to visit Disneyland next weekend. Michelle and Amanda (aka The Girls Productions) will be doing a signing Sunday March …
Of Mice and Magic
I was rummaging through my stuff and found this ad I clipped from the October 30, 1980 issue of Rolling Stone. Of Mice and Magic came …
Alexei Karayev’s Welcome (1986)
What would happen if some Russians took a Dr. Seuss story and turned it into a paint-on-glass animated short? The results would be …
John Lasseter in the NY Times
Yesterday’s New York Times featured an interview with John Lasseter and some interesting bits can be gleaned from the article. One thing …
PAPRIKA trailer
Click here to see the exciting trailer for the new film by Satoshi Kon (Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers), Paprika. Watching this …
New Internet ads by John K.
John Kricfalusi has done four mini animated pieces for Raketu, a new internet/cell phone entertainment/communication service. John has …
1960 US Navy spot by Bobe Cannon
After Robert “Bobe” Cannon (the genius director of Gerald McBoing Boing) left UPA around 1958, he began to do a lot of commercial …
More from Jules Engel’s estate
Here are a few more caricatures from Jules Engel’s estate, courtesy of USC’s Christine Panushka, Jules’s executor. Christine wants to …
Jules Engel on Bambi
These three caricatures, above, are of Jules Engel enacting part of a storyboard on Bambi. Don’t strain your eyes. Click here to see a …
Oscar ’07: The fallout from the “Happy Feet” win
Happy Feet won. Does it matter? The sad fact is, it may. I won’t deny that Happy Feet was a well made, entertaining film. I liked …
Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life
Man, I can’t wait for this one! Ammo Books is getting ready to release what could become one of the must-have books of recent times: a …
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