Webcomic: alert: What goes on at a cartoon focus group
Giancarlo Volpe, showrunner of Green Lantern the Animated Series has drawn a comic about a focus group test of the cartoon. It's an...
“She Has to Adapt Right Now” Mairghread Scott and Sarah Stone on Transformers: Windblade...
Next month sees a launch which The Beat has been following on and off for the last few weeks. A new Transformers miniseries will...
Two cartoons return without their creators: Jem and the Holograms and Boondocks
There was much rejoicing last week when it was announced 80s cartoon mainstay Jem and The Holograms is coming back as a live-action movie, with
the production crowd sourced in some cases. . The movie will be directed by Jon Chu who previously made both Step Up and GI Joe Retaliation, which is the perfect resume for a movie about a female rock band that has adventures.
Boom gets first look with Cartoon Network starting with Steven Universe
Following their huge success with their Adventure Time and Regular Show comics, Boom! Studios has signed a "first look" deal with Cartoon Network, meaning...
Just the nerd cetagories in the 2014 Oscar nominattons
Just in case you didn't get up to see Thor announce this year's Academy Award nominations—Inside Llewyn Davis wuz robbed!—here's a cheat sheet to...
31 days of winter festivals: SuperF*ckers Save Christmas
James Kochalka's unspell-out-able in a family website superheroes are back in a special digital only release called: SuperF*ckers Save Christmas. YOu can purchase it...
Plotagon lets you make your own animated movie with the help of Stan Lee
Okay, so there's this new software thinger called Plotagon and once you upload your screenplay and make a few other settings it uses...
Boom teases Bee and PuppyCat series
Just in case you missed the memo, Natasha Allegri's Bee and PuppyCat is the new Adventures Time. Not only is it a viral video that has racked up 1,5 million views on YouTube, it's a Kickstarter with $427,000 of a $600,000 goal in the can.
Beware The Batman should have bewared Cartoon Network
I haven't really been following all the animated DC cartoon news, but Beware the Batman, the dark (!) CGI cartoon telling Batman's early days...
Disney launches toyetic shonen Avengers cartoon in Japan
The main reason Disney acquired Marvel was to finally break open the boy market bank, and their simple plan worked pretty well. They're even conquering Japan, it was just announced, with "the first Japanese Marvel animated television series targeted at boys." It's called Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers. "Disk" wars, eh That sound highly, highly toyetic.
You won’t believe this Chester Brown Louis Riel cartoon
A tiny snippt of a lost project that would have animated Chester Brown's great graphic novel of Canadian history.
Gene Deitch’s Nudnik joins Tumblr, Twitter and so on
As long as we're talking about the groovy 60s, the angular, sketchy cartoons of Gene Deitch (father of Kim) were a staple of the...
