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Asian Artist Sets Up Shop in L.A.
 Japanese sculptor, designer, and pop culture artist Takashi Murakami has announced his plans to set up an animation production studio in Los Angeles. Already with an office Tokyo and New York for |

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2008 Gobelins Student Films
 French animation school Gobelins has released the latest batch of their student films. From a purely technical standpoint, the quality of this school’s work never ceases to amaze me. It’s |

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Sundance Shorts Line-Up Announced
 The Sundance Film Festival announced today their short film selections for the 2009 festival which runs January 15-25 in Park City, Utah. Animation is well-represented this year with nine American |

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Cartoon Brew TV: Adventures in Broccoli
 It’s our 13th episode and we’ve got Adventures in Broccoli, a 2008 Pratt graduation film created by Dan Mountain. It’s a surreal mindtrip of a film that follows the adventures of a |

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Cartoon Brew TV #13: Adventures in Broccoli
 (Warning: This film contains strong language.)As I was watching Dan Mountain’s Adventures in Broccoli at the year-end Pratt screening a few months back, I was thinking to myself that not only is |

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“No Corras Tanto” Video by César Díaz
 Spanish animator César Díaz created this lyrical sand-animated music video for El Combolinga’s “No Corras Tanto.” Díaz is also a member of the band.There’s also this making-of |

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Recent comic Page changes
 The Seattle Times reports that due to economic and revenue conditions it’s reducing the number of sections it prints from four to three on various days of the week. As a result they are |

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News Briefs for December 9, 2008
 » A list of upcoming professional journalism awards deadlines for editorial cartoonists has been compiled and posted on the AAEC’s web site for those vying for a major award.» Michael |

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Tribune Co. files for Chapter 11 and other woes
 News broke yesterday that the Tribune Company, owner of eight major dailies, 23 television stations, baseball team and Tribune Media Syndicate, filed for chapter 11 to protect it from creditors. The |

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