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What animated shorts and features are contending for an Oscar this year?
In a new Royal Canadian Mint x Looney Tunes collab, Bugs Bunny trades his carrots for carats.
The classic Looney Tunes star is now a New York City cab driver.
Hundreds of hours' worth of animation is newly available to stream online.
The obesity epidemic takes its toll on cartoon characters in a new book and exhibition.
Indie animation heavyweight Bill Plympton is using a new distribution to get his adult animation to audiences.
For DreamWorks Animation, "Home" is where the money is.
"Powerpuff Girls" is being rebooted by "Adventure Time" art director Nick Jennings.
"LEGO Movie" Phil Lord and Chris Miller turned down an offer to run Sony Animation because "it’s too hard to do great work there."
A collection of ideas too half-baked to stand alone, amassed towards no pinnacle of expression.
Ron Tippe, the animation producer of the live-action/animated hybrid feature "Space Jam" and the Oscar-nominated Disney short "Runaway Brain," passed away on August 1st after a year-and-a-half battle with brain cancer.
To the average cartoon viewer, SpongeBob is SpongeBob and Bart Simpson is Bart Simpson, but cartoon connoisseurs recognize that characters evolve over the years, not just personality-wise but graphically.
"Drunk History," the Comedy Central series in which drunk celebrities explain real history, set their inebriated sights last night on Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks, and the creation of Mickey Mouse.
For the past few days on Cartoon Brew's Instagram account, we've been running a series called 25 Cartoonists You Should Know. The entire series is below, and yes, the list could easily be twice as long and still incomplete.
Joyce Pensato (b. 1941, Brooklyn NY) has been painting cartoon characters for years. She takes icons of cartoon art—Felix the Cat, Donald Duck, Batman—and renders them in smudgy charcoal and pastel or runny enamel paint. She works mostly in black and white, occasionally introducing silver and gold for contrast. Though her work seems grounded more in graffiti art, she actually draws from fine art history, from the likes of the Abstract Expressionists, and Philip Guston, who was also influenced by comics.
When we started offering recaps of Steven Universe last November, we were uncertain how readers would respond. Your feedback turned out …
Cartoon Brew officially launched on March 15, 2004. A decade is a long time to be doing anything, but it feels like an especially long time to be blogging daily. As we head into the site's 10th anniversary year, here are some reflections on where we've been and where we're headed.
Patrick Oliphant (b. 1935) is one of the Old Masters of editorial cartooning. He began his career in his native Australia, then came to the US in 1964, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1967, the first of many awards and accolades. The Gerald Peters Gallery in New York is presenting "Patrick Oliphant: A Survey," which includes 34 mostly new works ranging from charcoal and ink drawings, paintings in watercolor and oil, and bronze sculpture.
The Cartoon Network upfronts took place yesterday and the now Stu Snyder-free network presented its slate of upcoming shows for the 2014-'15 season to their advertising and promotional partners.