Cartoon Brew is an animation news website created by Amid Amidi and animation historian Jerry Beck that was launched on 15 March 2004.
History In 2025, Amid Amidi sold Cartoon Brew, LLC to Jamie Lang, who had previously been the site's editor-in-chef for two years. After acquisition, Lang returned to the editor-in-chef position, and also assumed the roles of owner and publisher of the company.
Reception The site has published news articles, commentaries and reviews regarding the animation industry. The Comics Beat called it the "essential cartoon blog", while animator Francis Glebas cited it as "the place to go for the latest in animation news".
Cartoon Dump
Cartoon Brew also created Cartoon Dump, a weekly podcast showing poorly made TV cartoons featuring Mystery Science Theater 3000s Frank Conniff.
Cartoon Research Beck departed from the site in February 2013 and began writing for his first blog, Cartoon Research, instead.What Dave Fleischer did after "Mr. Bug" | Cartoon Research (first post of CR)
See also Animation World Network Animation Magazine History of animation
References
External links
Jerry's Cartoon Research Cartoon Dump on YouTube