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SILENT CARTOONS SUNDAY

A reminder that tomorrow at UCLA is a screening of silent era cartoon rareties.On Sunday August 1st at 2pm: A TREASURY OF SILENT …

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Ed Bell Boogie

The wildly talented Ed Bell now has his own website at EdBell.net. Ed’s been working in animation since the days of Bakshi’s MIGHTY …

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Biskup & Baseman in San Diego

What, you say you’re still not sick of SD Con news and want more? On Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 1-2 pm and on Sunday from …

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Amid’s Con Plans

Brew co-editor Jerry Beck has certainly plugged the San Diego Comic Con enough times already, but it won’t hurt to mention once more that …

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FLEISCHER POPEYE PENCIL TEST

FOX has just scheduled the all-new half-hour CGI special “Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy” for telecast on Sunday, Dec. 19. King …

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MY COMIC CON PLANS

The San Diego Comic Con is so huge (80,000+ people expected this year), so overwhelming, so impossible to meet up with friends that I’m …

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UCLA FESTIVAL OF PRESERVATION

Every two years the UCLA Film and Television Archives opens it’s vaults and presents it’s latest restorations to the public in a gala …

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Something I Didn’t Need To See

A brief follow-up to that atrocious Disneyland Paris advertising campaign for their new LION KING stage show. Inkan over at Animation …

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The 2D Expo: Flash Panel Wrap-up

I was planning to post a summary of the Flash & TV Animation panel that I moderated a few days ago at ASIFA-Hollywood’s 2D Expo, but …

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2-D EXPO WAS GREAT!

Just walked in the door from all day at Asifa-Hollywood’s first 2-D Expo.It was a blast – and for us, a big success. I just want to thank …

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Annecy Report #3

In Robert Kohr’s Thursday Annecy report posted at AnimatorsUnite.com, he writes about the jubilant atmosphere of the screenings: the …

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Annecy Report #1

I’d originally planned to write daily reports from Annecy, but there’s so much to see and do here that I’m not exactly finding a whole …

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AAAGGH! MY EYES!

SHREK: FROM THE SWAMP TO THE SCREEN is hands-down the ugliest “art of” book I’ve ever seen for an animated film, which is probably owing …

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ON THE FRONT LINES

What can I say? It’s amazing!I never thought I’d live to see the day they’d release restored, perfect copies of DER FUEHRER’S FACE, …

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Rex Steele, Nazi Smasher

Brew reader (and artist extrodinaire) Stephen deStefano wants to call your attention to a rather exceptional film that’s come out of New …

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Deep Thoughts For A Monday Morning

“I’ve always felt that characters should be uncomplicated, then put the complicated things into the animation.” – Grim Natwick “The …

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FLEISCHER MUSIC

I love the music in Fleischer cartoons. From Betty Boop, through the Color Classics, the Popeye cartoons and the original theme for …

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