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Tonight in NYC: Political Cartoon Legend Pat Oliphant Opens Art Show

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.

Comics

How to Look At Ad Reinhardt, The Cartoonist Who Was A Fine Artist

Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) was an artist’s artist, renowned among critics and curators, but hard for the general public to warm up to. His most famous fine art works are his Black Paintings, from the 1960s, which at first glance appear to be solid black, but on closer inspection turn out to be blocks of black and almost-black shades. Important, but challenging.

Classic

10 Animated Sexploitation Features from the Sixties and Seventies (NSFW)

For a brief decade-long period in animation history, between the late-1960s and late-1970s, feature animation filmmakers cast aside their inhibitions and created films that aimed to titillate and shock audiences with the novelty of sexual cartoon imagery.

Ideas/Commentary

“Random Acts”: Creating A Space for Independent Animated Films in Britain

In October 2011, Britain’s Channel 4 began airing a new initiative entitled Random Acts; this was designed as a space for …

Award Season Focus

Director Luiz Bolognesi on “Rio 2096,” An Animated Feature About Love and Revolution

Produced in Brazil for just $2.5 million by first-time animation director Luiz Bolognesi, Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury is among the …

Gift Guide

Cartoon Brew Gift Guide 2013

Finding the perfect gift for the animation lover in your life isn't always the easiest thing. Here's a few of our suggestions ranging from a few bucks to over a grand. Share your suggestions in the comments.

TV

Ralph Bakshi’s “Christmas in Tattertown”: 25 Years Later

Earlier this year, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." This month we celebrate the 25th anniversary of Ralph Bakshi's holiday special "Christmas in Tattertown," which premiered December 21, 1988 on Nickelodeon. The two projects are not entirely unrelated. Bakshi credited the success of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" as the reason that he was able to get "Tattertown" greenlit for production.

Animators

R.I.P. Filmation Co-Founder Lou Scheimer

For TV viewers of a certain age, the shows produced by Lou Scheimer’s Filmation evoke fond nostalgia and happy Saturday morning memories. …

Shorts

France Will Produce 500 New “Peanuts” Shorts

Peanuts Worldwide, a joint venture between Charles M. Schulz Associates and Iconix Brand Group, has partnered with Normaal Animation and …

Animators

The Rise and Fall of the Funny, Sexy Cartoon Woman

Cartoon women are inherently difficult subjects for the animator for the reason that animation demands caricature and comedy, which are …

Animators

15 Reasons Why Frank Tashlin Was Awesome

A tribute to the legendary director Frank Tashlin on his Centennial.

Site News

A Final Word From Jerry

This is my final post on the Brew. Thank you for all for contributing to this website's success.

Business

Technicolor Options Rights to Graphic Novel Series “The Deep”

This press release was interesting to me because I wasn't aware that Technicolor is making a push into original content development.

Animators

Psychedelic Screwball: The Films of Italian Director Bruno Bozzetto

Bruno Bozzetto - who has produced a remarkably solid body of work, ripe for rediscovery.

Books

“Who’s Afraid of Song Of The South?”

After a lot of blood, sweat and tears, Jim Korkis' latest book about Disney's Song of the South is ready for publication.

Books

Four Fantastic New Books: On McKimson, Gottfredson, Henson and Wreck-It Ralph!

To recap: this season has already brought two must-have books – J.B. Kaufman’s Snow White history, The Fairest One Of All and Charles …

Feature Film

“Turkeys” get Greenlit at Reel FX

Here’s another film to look forward to in 2014: Relativity Media and Reel FX have announced that they will jointly produce and finance …

Animators

INTERVIEW: Carolyn and Andy London Are Eager to Please With Their New Project

Over the past decade,the husband-and-wife team Andy and Carolyn London have produced one of the most eclectic bodies of indie animated …

Books

Van Citters exploring “The Art of Jay Ward”

Animator Darrell Van Citters is following up his most-excellent making of Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol book with a new book on The Art of …

TV

The BEST “Scooby Doo” Ever?

I never thought I’d be posting about Scooby Doo ever again, much less be enthusiastic about it – but I happened to catch a few episodes …

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