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Events

KLIK! Animation Festival Begins Tomorrow in Amsterdam

The new edition of the KLIK Animation Festival begins in Amsterdam tomorrow and continues through Sunday, November 9th.

Japanese Company SoftBank In Talks To Buy DreamWorks Animation: Explained

Everything you need to know about the possible sale of DreamWorks to Japanese company SoftBank.

Recaps

‘Ping Pong’ Recap: ‘Blood Tastes Like Iron’ (Ep. 11)

Masaaki Yuasa's fourth TV show wraps up in a fairly satisfying way with a briskly paced and nicely animated climax that brings emotional closure to the story with a cathartic showdown and thread-tying coda.

Awards

SIGGRAPH Announces 2014 Computer Animation Festival Winners

SIGGRAPH has announced the winners of its 41st annual Computer Animation Festival. These projects will be shown amongst more than 100 pieces at the 2014 conference that will take place August 10-14 in Vancouver, Canada.

Cartoon Culture

How Garfield Got His Groove Back: The ‘Garfield’ Remix Phenomenon

Poor Garfield. In his heyday, he was amongst the most beloved characters on the funny pages, his plush likenesses fastened to car windows and his sarcastic barbs adorning office walls around the globe. Then, somewhere along the line, he underwent a pop-cultural re-evaluation. Jim Davis’ strip is now something of a pariah: just look at how "The Simpsons" paired it with "Love Is" as the kind of strip that Milhouse reads. What a comedown for a character once hip enough to be quoted in “Two Tribes” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. But yet, the orange cat has been saved from cultural oblivion by a peculiar trend: the remixed "Garfield" strip.

Disney

‘Big Hero 6’ Teaser Uses Comedy to Sell Superhero Film [UPDATED]

Here's the teaser for the Marvel-derived "Big Hero 6," Disney's next animated feature which will be out in November.

Recaps

‘Steven Universe’ Recap: ‘Rose’s Room’

Reading beforehand what this episode was supposed to be about, my mind completely went somewhere else. Steven’s at that age when boys want alone time for a very specific reason and while I was 99.9% sure Cartoon Network wasn’t going to go that far, I thought they’d at least allude to that idea of adolescence and growing up. Instead we dived into the real reason (sort of) that Steven wanted to be left alone, and dug a little deeper into the idea of his parental units via a room and a weird, very strange world created by said room.

Recaps

‘Ping Pong’ Recap: ‘The Wind Makes It Too Hard to Hear’

A recap of the first episode of Masaaki Yuasa's new series "Ping Pong."

Cartoon Brew Pick

‘Doraemon at the 2020 Neo-Tokyo Olympic Games’ by Aleix Pitarch

A Doraemon/Akira mashup for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games.

Site News

Cartoon Brew Expands Animation Coverage With Three New Writers

Cartoon Brew is pleased to announce the expansion of our extraordinary editorial staff, which furthers our commitment to covering the wide range of ideas and issues that impact the animation community.

Cartoon Brew Pick

‘Monsieur COK’ by Franck Dion

Mister Cok is the owner of a large bomb factory. Looking for efficiency and profit, he decides to replace his workers by sophisticated robots. The formers stare helplessly at the toil of the robotic laborers. But one of the workers does not accept being discarded so easily...

Anime

Book Review: A Fresh Take on Anime History by Jonathan Clements

Jonathan Clements’ "Anime: A History" differs greatly from more populist overviews of anime available in the English-language market. This book is not about the anime texts themselves, but the surrounding industry: Clements delivers a tightly-packed account of anime production, distribution and viewership from the silent era to the present day.

Cartoon Brew Pick

“Love in the Time of Advertising” by Matt Berenty and David Bokser

An animated musical love story about a young man who lives inside a billboard and is charged with updating the advertisements. When he falls in love with a beautiful lady living across the highway, he has to use the only method he knows to get his message across. Advertising.

DVD

The Ultimate Guide to Animated Mockbusters

Disney's recent trademark lawsuit against Phase 4 Films and their movie "Frozen Land" has reignited discussion about 'mockbusters,' the portmanteau used to describe a genre of home video that is dedicated to tricking customers into mistakenly purchasing a low-budget imitation of a popular movie.