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===Current activities===
Beck's six minute cartoon short ''Hornswiggle'', produced by [[Frederator Studios]], aired as part of the ''[[Random! Cartoons]]'' series December 20, 2008 on [[Nicktoons Network]]. 
HeFrom 2007 through 2012, Beck collaboratesd with ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''{{'}}s [[Frank Conniff]] to produce ''Cartoon Dump'' on the Web and as a monthly live comedy show at the [[The Steve Allen Theater]] in Hollywood. At the same venue the first Thursday of each month he screens a selection of classic short films and cartoons as part of a program of live, late twenties/early 30s jazz music performed by Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys. He has also programmed and hosted programs at the [[American Cinematheque]], [[Annecy International Animated Film Festival]], [[Ottawa International Animation Festival]], [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]] and [[Cinefamily]] and provided advice regarding appropriate classic cartoons to accompany features screening during a film noir festival in 2010 at the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]].<ref>[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/events/film-noir-cartoons-at-the-academy-22238.html Film Noir Cartoons at the Academy]</ref> On October 21, 2012 he co-hosted with [[Robert Osborne]] a program of rare animation features and shorts on [[Turner Classic Movies]].<ref>[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/why-animation-on-tcm-is-important-71998.html Why Animation on TCM is Important]</ref>

An annual show of Worst Cartoons has become a Friday night staple of [[Comic-Con International]], drawing an audience of over a thousand to watch Beck's latest selection of terrible but commercially distributed television cartoon series episodes (mostly drawn from low budget 1960s syndicated programs).

Beck was editor, with Amid Amidi, of the animation [[blog]] Cartoon Brew, until February 12, 2013, when he departed and left Amidi solely in charge of the blog. Beck is currently writing two blogs, Cartoon Research and Animation Scoop.

==Bibliography==

===As author or editor===
* {{cite book |title= The Warner Brothers Cartoons  |last1= Friedwald |first1= Will |author1-link=Will Friedwald |last2=Beck |first2= Jerry |year= 1981 |publisher= [[Scarecrow Press]] |location= [[Metuchen, New Jersey|Metuchen, N.J.]] |isbn= 0810813963}}
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