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Ragtime and Rubber Hose
Flip the Frog, Oswald Rabbit, Koko the Clown and Toby the Pup will return to the screen Tuesday night, at the Billy Wilder Theatre in the …
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The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History
Noteworthy new book about The Simpsons–The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History by journalist John Ortved draws on eighty new …
Sneak Peek: The Disney Family Museum
Animator Steve Segal had an opportunity to preview the new Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, which is opening to the public …
Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror #15
The annual Treehouse of Horror issue is out today. It’s guest edited by Sammy Harkam, the creator of the Kramers Ergot anthology. If you …
“Chainsaw Maid” by Takena Nagao
Chainsaw Maid has gotten a fair share of play this year, but I thought it deserved a bigger shout out here on Cartoon Brew. The idea to …
Disney buys MARVEL COMICS
Move over Uncle Scrooge! Disney will now compete with Hollywood (and in particular, Warner Bros. the owner of DC Comics) buy …
Renegade’s Funny Face now online
Not sure how long this has been online, but I just discovered a Daily Motion page which has several excerpts from the Renegade Animation …
10 for Best Picture
It was announced yesterday that the Academy will now nominate ten films for Best Picture. From their press release:For more than a decade …
Static: An Interactive Approach to Animation by Jack Lykins
Static: An Interactive Approach to Animation is a thesis film created by Jack Lykins in SVA’s Computer Arts program. All the video and …
Who’s Hungry? by David Ochs
It never fails to excite me when I see a student film by somebody who gets it. And 23-year-old David Ochs plainly and clearly gets it. …
The Milt Kahl event
Last night’s Milt Kahl tribute at the Motion Picture Academy was a huge (though a bit long) success – if you got into the theater. …
An Exclusive Excerpt from Friends, Fans and Followers
Fans, Friends and Followers: Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age may be this year’s must-read book for anybody …
3-D is a Fad
I love 3D movies. Thanks to a pair of 3-D film festivals held in L.A. several years ago, I’ve been lucky enough to see perhaps 95% of …
25 Animation Twitters
Did you know that Adventure Time creator Pen Ward drinks Shasta Cola in the bathtub? How about that Sony animator Kim Hazel wants a …
We Swear, It’s Not A Gimmick
To paraphrase a well-worn saying, With employees like these, who needs enemies? The DreamWorks employees interviewed in last weekend’s NY …
The Stubborn Cowboy (1967)
When Shamus Culhane took over the creative controls of the Paramount Animation Studio in 1966, he clearly understood the opportunity he …
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 …
Dwarf Fight by Bill Tytla
This sequence of drawings by Bill Tytla from Snow White is a reminder of what attracted me to animation in the first place. Tytla’s …
Disney’s forgotten live-action releases, 1957-59
This is perhaps the most off-topic post I’ve written for Cartoon Brew, but I hope you’ll indulge me. It’s regarding a neglected aspect of …
Small World makeover opens
Last year we made note of the planned revamp of a classic Disneyland attraction, It’s A Small World. This week the new version has …
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