Season 2 of The Mighty B! Premieres Today

Painting by Bill Wray Today, Nick is premiering the second season of The Mighty B! at 5:30 p.m (ET/PT). A new episode will debut …

Cartoon Network=Cartoon Stupid

I nominate this exchange between director/illustrator Ward Jenkins and his daughter, Ava, as the best animation-related tweet of the day:

Glenn Martin, DDS Talkback

Nick-at-Nite’s new animated series, the one produced by Michael Eisner, made it’s debut tonight. Anyone catch it? I did, and despite the …

Cartoon Network loses gamble

The LA Times has a huge front page story in it’s Business section today, reporting on Cartoon Network’s recent programming gamble on live …

Duck Tales live action

The trend toward remaking animated shows into live action, taken to its most illogical extreme: (Thanks, Adam Blake)

What’s Wrong With Ruth?

Today’s episode of Cartoon Network Pilot Playhouse asks the eternal question, What’s Wrong With Ruth? (created by William Reiss). …

Cartoon Network on Craigslist

Filmmaker Gavin Freitas found this notice on Craigslist:Cartoon Network seeks Teens (12-18) for new competition show! (Los …

Spang Ho!

Welcome to Cartoon Brew – where rejected pilots from Cartoon Network come to play. Here’s another one: Here is what the creator, …

Filmation’s Marx Brothers?

Thank God for small favors… As far as I know this show doesn’t exist. Fred Grandinetti sent me this trade ad from Broadcasting Magazine …

The Awesome Chronicles of Manny and Khan

Someone posted one of the shorts from The Cartoonstitute, Cartoon Network’s former shorts program. Since they are no longer running …

Dallas McKennon 1919-2009

Just got word that Dallas McKennon passed away this morning. Sunday would’ve been his 90th birthday. Dal was a prolific voice in …

The Art of Yo Gabba Gabba!

This Saturday, July 11, in Minneapolis, the Pink Hobo Gallery (507 E. Hennepin Ave.) will host an art show “The Art of Yo Gabba Gabba!” …

Spongebob documentary

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants (who first appeared on July 17th, 1999), VH1 will premiere Square …

Cartoon Network FAIL

How imbecilic is Cartoon Network’s new push towards live-action? Even the people who worked on this Andrew W.K. video promo think it’s …

Japanese Peanuts TV spots

Here’s pop star Kaela Kimura with the Peanuts gang. I happen to like these Japanese TV spots (advertising Hot Pepper, a free coupon …

Cartoon Network’s Death Knell Promo

Your name is Cartoon Network, so you expect to see nothing but animation when you flip CN on your TV. But the times they are …

Tucky Tales

Tucky Tales is a simple but inventive example of digital “cut-out” animation. The pre-school series for Baby TV was created by Israeli …

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