Cartoon Culture

Animated Manhattan

Inspired by the book Celluloid Skyline, which examined the depictions of New York in live-action film, the blog Ironic Sans has a …

Illustration

Chris McD

Last week at Platform, Jerry and I both received a lot of compliments about our new CartoonBrew/CartoonBrewFilms promo piece. So I …

Events

Platform Snaps

I’ll share my thoughts on the Platform festival in a bit, but first, a few snaps from this past week. As you can probably tell from these …

Events

Report from Platform #3

Yes, it’s Jerry sniffing Gromit’s butt. A cel phone photo snapped at Platform Animation Festival, Portland OR — Thursday, …

Events

Amid@Platform

I’m still recovering from Annecy but the Platform Festival is coming up in Portland in a few days and it promises to be another intense …

Classic

Where Are the UPA Shorts?

If there’s one question I’ve received more frequently than any other since the release of Cartoon Modern, it’s “Where can I see the UPA …

Ideas/Commentary

An Open Letter

Dear AOL/MSN/Yahoo/NBC-Universal and News Corp., Congratulations on the news of your new company to compete with YouTube. The …

Old Brew

Contest Question

Our first contest of the New Year, for the terrific limited edition CD set Tom and Jerry, and Tex Avery Too! was held this morning. The …

Old Brew

Scott Bradley Cd Contest

Only 3000 were produced. We’ve raved about it. Mike Barrier raved about it. You still have time to get one before they all sell out. Tom …

Old Brew

Animation’s Holy Grails

Atlanta animation director Ward Jenkins has posed an excellent question to his blog readers: “What would you consider The Holy Grail of …

Old Brew

SMOKIN’ TOONS

Last month the British press made a stink about cigarette smoking in old Tom & Jerry cartoons. Nicole Hollander even made note of it in …

Old Brew

JANET KLEIN PLUG

Regular Brew readers already know that once a month (the first Thursday of each month) Jerry Beck shows vintage 16mm musical shorts and …

Animators

PRESTON BLAIR’S ANIMATION BOOK

You know it. You have it. You’ve studied it from cover to cover. Preston Blair’s ANIMATION is the book on character animation basics. …

Old Brew

NEW HANNA BARBERA FIGURES

Our buddy Scott Shaw! designed these cool new action-packed Hanna Barbera figures. Tom & Jerry (above), Fred Flintstone, Hong Kong Phooey …

Old Brew

OSCAR TIME!

Tomorrow night is Oscar night and nothing seems as certain as the WALLACE & GROMIT win. However, the only suspense around here is for who …

Animators

Oswald South of the Border

Mexican reader Uriel Durán writes to let us know that Oswald is popular nowadays in Mexico, as well as Japan: The situation is that in …

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