Amid Amidi is an author, historian, and consultant, with numerous books to his credit. His next book, A Sketchy Past: The Art of Peter de Sève will be published by Akileos in October 2009. He is also editing The Art of John Kricfalusi and Spumco, which will be published by Abrams ComicArts/PictureBox in Summer 2010, and writing a new book to be published by Chronicle Books in Spring 2011.

His book Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation (Chronicle Books) won the prestigious 2006 Theatre Library Association Award for best English-language book about film and television. He has also written The Art of Pixar Short Films, The Art of Robots for 20th Century Fox about the making of the Fox/Blue Sky computer animated feature Robots, and edited and designed the book Inside UPA, a compilation of unpublished photographs from the legendary UPA Animation Studios.

He launched one of the earliest daily animation news and commentary sites—Animation and Cartoon Heaven—in August 1996. In 1998, that site became Animation Blast. A print version of Animation Blast soon followed and nine issues have been published to date. In 1998, he joined Animation World Network as Associate Editor of Animation World Magazine, the first monthly electronic publication devoted to animation. He also wrote their weekly industry e-newsletter, The Animation Flash. In March 2004, he partnered with Jerry Beck and launched the site that you’re currently reading and in March 2007, they debuted the animation-on-demand download site Cartoon Brew Films.

He has curated retrospectives and presented lectures at the Ottawa International Animation Festival (Canada), Anima Mundi (Brazil), Fredrikstad Animation Festival (Norway), Projector Festival (Scotland), Platform International Animation Festival (Portland), Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Comic-Con International:San Diego, and the 2D Animation Expo (Los Angeles). Additionally, he has worked in the animation industry in a number of capacities, consulted for various animation companies, and served on multiple nomination committees for the ASIFA-Hollywood Annie Awards.

He lives in Manhattan.

Other Amid-related sites:
Cartoon Modern blog
Animation Blast magazine

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