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Thank You To Our Sponsors

We wanted to take a quick timeout to thank Cartoon Brew’s sponsors from the last couple months. The support of these companies allows us …

Books

2009 Animation Book Preview

While the Internet has killed off the print animation magazine (or at least the demand for such publications), it hasn’t yet diminished …

Classic

How to Draw “Fleischer”

Comic art collector Eric Sack is an old friend who has perhaps the finest collection of original underground comix art in the United …

Cartoon Culture

Kristen Morgin

Kristen Morgan, an artist and professor at Cal State Long Beach, has a current installation in Hollywood which combines pop culture …

Books

Three Books Worth A Look

Here are three cartoon and film-related books that aren’t on my bookshelf but will be soon. The Adventures of Herge: Creator of …

Events

Gag Me With A Toon

Meltdown Comics in Hollywood is celebrating the “wonderfully mesmerizing phenomenon of ’80’s era cartoons” with a gallery show …

Comics

Hot Stuff

The latest compilation book of vintage Harvey Comics, Hot Stuff – Harvey Comics Classics Vol. 3 is now on sale (though the official …

Flash

Superjail

Seemingly the funniest and cartooniest animated projects nowadays are set in jails. There’s the Japanese CG series Usavich, which was …

Shorts

Visions of Frank dvd

Visions of Frank is a dvd that came out last year collecting eight animated shorts by Japanese animators, all based on Jim Woodring’s …

Books

Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend

“Holy Sh-t!” I gotta have this book. That was my reaction when I first saw it – and now I have it. I’d heard about the book, but had …

Anime

Tezuka exhibit in San Fran

In the photo above, the guy on the left is yours truly, Jerry Beck, blathering on about the fine points of American animation to the guy …

Ideas/Commentary

The Saga of Todd Goldman

Todd Goldman is a talented artist whose t-shirt/apparel company David and Goliath, Inc. made $90 million in 2004. That’s hardly a …

Events

Glenn Barr’s Haunted Paradise

Forget the fact that Glenn Barr did backgrounds for Ren & Stimpy, or The New Woody Woodpecker Show, or has contributed to Mad Magazine …

Old Brew

SDCC: Out of Picture

My first exposure to the talented artists at Blue Sky Studios was a couple years back when I wrote the ART OF ROBOTS book. The general …

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