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The Twenty Most-Read Cartoon Brew Stories of 2017
Here’s a look back at the pieces that captivated the animation community in 2017.
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‘Sausage Party’ Directors Conrad Vernon & Greg Tiernan On Making 2016’s Most Outlandish Animated Film
The directors of "Sausage Party" talk about the challenges of selling an R-rated animated feature in Hollywood, producing a film on a fraction of the budget of other studios, and knowing when you've gone too far in an R-rated cartoon.
Happy Birthday, Bugs Bunny! Here’s 7.5 Times You Changed Cartoons Forever
Now 75, Bugs Bunny remains a towering influence. We look at some of his greatest hits.
“Tintin” Ushers in a New Era of Photoreal Cartoons
This is not a review of the Adventures of Tintin. I think we can all agree there have been enough of those already. My primary interest …
Cartoons, Copyright and YouTube
So, what’s new in the world of animation this week? Well, YouTube has bowed to pressure from the movie studios and removed hundreds of …
16 Overlooked Stop-Motion Features You Probably Haven’t Seen
We're taking a closer look at underappreciated stop-motion features from the last 100 years.
Popeye, Bosko, Tintin, And Horace Horsecollar Are Now In The Public Domain
A bounty of classic cartoon and comic characters have entered the public domain this year.
A Thrilling Tour Through The History Of Wild Takes In Animation
Get ready to have your eyes pop out of your skull, because today we’re taking a look at some of the great wild takes throughout animation history.
100 Years Of Disney Surrealism: More Than Just Fairy Tales And Princesses
Disney may be the leading purveyor of safe, family-friendly entertainment today, but that hasn't always been the case.
20 Spooky Stop-Motion Classics To Get You In The Mood For Halloween
Historian Vincent Alexander has exhumed a frightening list of stop-motion gems worth dusting off this Halloween.
‘Detective Pikachu’ VFX Supervisor Erik Nordby On The Huge Challenge Of Translating Pokémon Into CG
With over 60 Pokémon to design and a complicated approval pipeline, "Pokémon Detective Pikachu" was not your typical hybrid cg production.
Everything You Need to Know about Fanime
Pioneered by children, legitimized by people looking up weird stuff on YouTube, vitalized by online hoaxes, and existing entirely outside any kind of aesthetic considerations, fanime is something that could only have developed on the web.
How Can We Make Adult Animation Truly Adult?
The potted history of animation’s shifting demographics should be familiar. Once, animated films were aimed at general audiences. Over …
Llyn Foulkes Retrospective Opens February 3 at Hammer
Painter Llyn Foulkes will be the subject of a major retrospective at the Hammer Museum.
Van Beuren’s Toddle Tales and Rainbow Parade
Steve Stanchfield has done it again. An animator, educator, cartoon historian and film preservationist, Stanchfield has spent the last …
Tonight at L.A.’s Silent Movie Theatre
Sound cartoons… Disturbing sound cartoons. Cartoons too violent, too scary, too depressing and, though made decades ago for all ages, …
Cartoon Network Planning To Lure Young Boys
Parents of children beware: it seems that Cartoon Network, in its middle age, has developed a fascination with young boys. A recent …
Thoughts While Watching Voom
I’m continuing to watch Voom’s THE CLASSICS animation block in HDTV on the Animania channel, and while I do, I’m mulling over matters …
The John Kricfalusi Interview, Part 1
An interesting thought occured to me as I was reading this intense exchange of cartoon ideologies between John Kricfalusi and …
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