Books

New Book by Chris Robinson

Chris Robinson’s Canadian Animation: Looking for A Place to Happen is one more to add to the list of animation books I’m looking forward …

Feature Film

Persepolis opens today

Persepolis, opening today in New York and Los Angeles, is as far from the Hollywood status quo as you can get. It’s an important film, …

Internet/Blogs

Matinee At The Bijou blog

My old pal Ron Hall has started writing a blog in conjunction with a revival of Matinee at the Bijou. Apparently new episodes of this …

Books

Inside UPA Now Shipping!

Satisfied customer Daniel Stone was awesome enough to post this photo of himself and the book on his blog Good news just in time for …

Events

THIS WEEKEND: Michael Sporn at MoMA

Starting today and continuing through the weekend, New Yorkers will be treated to a three-part Museum of Modern Art retrospective of the …

Books

Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi

Here’s the cover to one of next year’s must-have animation books: Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi by Jon M. Gibson and Chris …

Books

Book Review: To Infinity and Beyond

To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios (Chronicle Books, 2007) by Karen Paik is exactly the type of book you’d …

Events

November L.A. Comic Con

My friend Bruce Schwartz runs the Comic Book and Sci-Fi Convention at the Shrine Auditorium (near USC) in Los Angeles each month. And he …

Illustration

Chris McD

Last week at Platform, Jerry and I both received a lot of compliments about our new CartoonBrew/CartoonBrewFilms promo piece. So I …

Books

To Infinity and Beyond

This October, Chronicle Books will release To Infinity and Beyond: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios by Karen Paik and Leslie Iwerks. …

Books

New Cinderella Book With Mary Blair Art

Via Didier Ghez’s always informative Disney History blog comes word of a new Cinderella storybook that uses Mary Blair’s concept art from …

BrewFilms

John Hubley’s Flat Hatting

We’ve debuted a new film on CartoonBrewFilms. It’s John Hubley’s Flat Hatting, a rare 1946 US Navy training film produced at UPA (at the …

Old Brew

Id These Pig Cels

Brew readers with a keen eye and a vast knowledge of Disney TV and movies, here’s a question for you. These cels (above) were recently …

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