Tag "Spike Brandt"

Van Eaton Galleries Celebrates Hanna-Barbera

February 26, 2013 by Mercedes Milligan 1 Comment divider image

The L.A. area’s Van Eaton Galleries is busy preparing an art show tribute to animation legends Hanna-Barbera this spring. The show will kick off April 6 with a free, open to the public artists’ reception from 6-10 p.m. The tribute is open to works in all media, from painting and [...]

Someone Up There Likes Us

November 1, 2012 by Michael Mallory 1 Comment divider image

Unlike the biz as a whole, animation has long been a field in which people don’t specialize. Finding an artist whose skill set includes animation, design, storyboarding, directing, even voice work, is the norm, not the exception. Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone certainly have all of those on their resumes—as [...]

New Daffy Short to Debut with ‘Journey 2′

January 30, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

The new Looney Tunes 3-D toon Daffy’s Rhapsody will premiere before screenings of Warner Bros.’ Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. Directed by Matthew O’Callaghan (Coyote Falls, I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat, Curious George), the new short will debut in theaters on Feb. 10 and will be presented in [...]

New DVD Rush: Tom and Jerry and The Angry Beavers

August 22, 2011 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

The Angry Beavers: Season 1 and 2. Shout! Factory continues its mission to release popular Nick Toons from the past on DVD this week by releasing the first two seasons of Mitch Schauer’s clever show. The series, which ran from 1997 to 2001, charted the adventures of twin brother beavers [...]

Bugs and Daffy Host a Dinner Party!

by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

If the thought of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck hosting a dinner party together for all their neighbors seems slightly surreal to you, then you’ll want to check out the new episode of The Looney Tunes Show airing this Tuesday (August 23) at 8 p.m. on Cartoon Network. The folks [...]

New Looney Tunes Shorts to Feature Mel Blanc Songs

June 8, 2011 by Thomas J. McLean 2 Comments divider image

The Looney Tunes are coming back to the big screen in three new shorts that will arrives starting this year and featuring the voice of the beloved late voice actor, Mel Blanc. The new shorts will be stereoscopic 3D theatrical cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Animation and directed by Matthew [...]

The Totally Odd Couple – ‘The Looney Tunes Show’

March 25, 2011 by Ramin Zahed 4 Comments divider image

Bugs and Daffy share a home in The Looney Tunes Show, an offbeat new half-hour toon which introduces the classic characters to a new generation of Cartoon Network audiences. More than 73 years after Bugs Bunny made his first appearance in the short Porky’s Hare Hunt (April 30, 1938), everyone’s [...]