Cartoon Brew is an animation news website created by Amid Amidi and animation historian Jerry Beck that was launched on 15 March 2004.

[2] It also created Cartoon Dump, a weekly podcast showing poorly made TV cartoons featuring Mystery Science Theater 3000's Frank Conniff.

[3] The site has published news articles, commentaries and reviews regarding the animation industry.

[4] The Comics Beat called it the "essential cartoon blog",[5] while animator Francis Glebas cited it as "the place to go for the latest in animation news".

[6][7] Beck departed from the site in February 2013 and began writing for his first blog, Cartoon Research, instead.