Classic

Lost Tom & Jerry title cards

Fellow animation historian David Gerstein is on a roll. He’s followed up his discovery of the lost ending to the Bugs Bunny …

Internet/Blogs

Yooouuutuuube.com

Yooouuutuuube.com is a site that allows users to create a frame-by-frame video wall display using any YouTube video link. The effect is …

Business

Michael Eisner Career Update

Now that Michael Eisner has purchased the ailing Topps baseball card company, he’s finally in charge of a company that has to use all of …

Cartoon Culture

The Flinstones on Broadway

And you thought the live action movies were the end of it? Think again! I don’t know how I missed this news item buried in a story …

Ideas/Commentary

Looney Tombs

Editor’s Note: Welcome to the first post by award-winning filmmaker and regular Guest Brewer Pes. Recently I’ve been spending a lot of …

Animators

Justin Wright (1981-2008)

Sad news out of Pixar. Story supervisor Ronnie del Carmen reports on his blog that newly minted Pixar story artist Justin Wright passed …

CGI

“Usavich”

Please meet one of the most refreshingly original and funny animated series I’ve run across in a while: Usavich produced by Kanaban …

Classic

Your Charm article about Disney

Below is an early-1940s article from a magazine called Your Charm, a young woman’s magazine alone the lines of Mademoiselle. Forgive the …

Cartoon Culture

Eisner’s New Mouse

“Bazooka Joe is my new Mickey Mouse.” – Michael Eisner Story at USA Today, analysis at Mayerson on Animation. (via The Beat)

Comics

Captain Carrot Returns!

Going on sale tomorrow (10/10) is the first issue of a new DC Comics’ three-issue mini-series, CAPTAIN CARROT AND THE FINAL ARK, reviving …

Comics

Audrey in Spanish

Kali Fontecchio posts a Little Audrey comic story (in Spanish) drawn by animator Steve Muffatti.

Old Brew

REGINALD MASSIE

Screenwriter Jeff Massie, an executive board member of The Animation Guild, has started blogging about his life and stuff he likes, …

Old Brew

Paul Scheurich at Comic-Con

Speaking of prints, the image above is a vintage lithograph that I picked up in San Diego (click on it for a larger version). The company …

Old Brew

EARL KRESS BLOGS

My buddy Earl Kress has just started a blog, and I’m sure he will add a lot to this so-called blogosphere. Earl’s the man behind the …

Old Brew

NEXTOONS

Next week Nicktoons premieres its second Annual film festival, Nextoons, each night August 21-28, Midnight (ET)/9:00 p.m. (PT). Created …

Old Brew

HERE COMES THE PINK PANTHER

Starting this summer, the Pink Panther is going to be back in our lives in a variety of ways. In addition to a new book I’m writing (for …

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