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SEMINAR: How To Sell An Animated Series
With all the recent discussion here about pitching in TV animation, this is an event that is timely and also somewhat ironic. On Monday, …
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Pat Smith Says It So I Don’t Have To
AWN has a good INTERVIEW with NY indie Pat Smith. One thing Pat says in there really stood out to me: The pitching system is a bad …
Two New Books
Two great new books, mentioned prevously on this site, have finally been published and both are a lot better than I imagined – and highly …
RIK MAKI AT VAN EATON GALLERIES
Rik Maki began his career as a baseball pitcher in the minor leagues for seven years before trading in his wooden bat for a wooden …
Tales of Worm Paranoia and Buy One, Get One Free
I’m not sure how many folks are aware of this, but there’s interesting and rare animation popping up almost daily now on YouTube. For …
BEST OF THE REST
Next Thursday night I will be giving a talk at the Van Eaton Galleries, discussing and screening some of the best non-Disney cartoons of …
Help Save Tony the Tiger
Nate Pacheco’s blog deserves a second mention in as many days. A couple years back, he tried to convince the Leo Burnett ad agency to …
The Boy, The Beer and the Bus
What better way to document a film festival than to make a film about it? That’s exactly what Rita Street’s friend, Gayle Ellett, did to …
CARTOON JOurnal looking for submissions
CARTOON: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANIMATION is currently accepting pitches for its next issue, which will be published in December. …
Thurl Ravenscroft 1914-2005
Thurl Ravenscroft, who roared “They’re Grrrrreeeat!” in Kellogg’s Tony the Tiger ads and voiced a host of Disney characters, died Sunday …
OH YEAH! CARTOONS
Heads up all you creative types: Frederator Studios is calling for new submissions for a fourth season of Oh Yeah! Cartoons to be …
A Brush With Will Eisner
Mark Bunker sent in this nice memory of recently departed comic legend Will Eisner: Eisner has long been my favorite comic book artist. …
The Animation Documentary Of the Year
DREAM ON SILLY DREAMER sounds awesome! I want to see this film!! And it sounds like it would make a perfect double feature with THE …
NY Dispatch #1
This past week I’ve been hanging around New York City on a business trip of sorts, though admittedly, business in my case is fairly …
Popeye Restored
Less than a month ago I saw the two-reel Fleischer cartoon POPEYE THE SAILOR MEETS SINDBAD THE SAILOR (1936) for the first time. I didn’t …
2D Expo Photos
Jorge Gutierrez’s wife, Sandra Equihua, was kind enough to forward some photos she took during the Flash & TV Production panel, which I …
GO! SPEED RACER GO!
Excerpted from today’s Daily Variety:”DodgeBall” star Vince Vaughn has gotten Warner Bros. revved up again about “Speed Racer,” a live- …
Thanks and Some Requests
This is going to be my last contribution to Cartoon Brew. I’d like to thank Jerry and Amid for having me as a guest for a few weeks …
FOLLOW-UP: JONES MURAL SAVED!
This just in from John Tebbel:Great news. The power of Chuck Jones triumphs.Due to the pitching in of lots of folks, chief among them …
The TV Animation Business Part 2
How Multinational Corporations Thrive As I mentioned in the last installment, the paradox of the TV business is that the increasing …
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