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Recently, I was invited to join my old animation buds, Jeff Pigeon, and Jim Reardon at Pixar for a sit down interview. The interview is for the DVD release of a show we all worked on before we'd reached 20! The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse was probably my first professional art job experience, and meant so much to me in ways I've never talked about before in a forum such as this. Details to follow in other posts. The session at Pixar was a blast. I just hope they got something usable out of my rantings.

Big-Up, Large-Ups in fact, to Mr. Jerry Beck, an historian of animation I really admire. It's due to his and the Brew's support of that show, that has kept it in the cultural digestive system all these years. I consider his analysis of the industry, since the years I worked with John Krisfaluci, to be right on point with what I believe about the beloved art form. If you have any interest in this aspect of our popular art culture, but want commentary that's coming from the creative's POV, the advocates' POV, then Cartoon Brew is for you.

I don't have any stills or pics of the Emeryville interviews, but here's some pics of the LA meet-up where all my cohorts in the show got interviewed last Wednesday. This included Vicki Jenson and Tom Minton, Mike Kazelah, Kent Butterworth, John Krisfaluci, and Libby Simon, who also produced MY first stint as a TV director, on "Happily Ever After, Fairy Tales For Every Child." Salad days to be sure.