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It’s Time For 365 Days Of Ward Kimball

A companion to my upcoming biography of Ward Kimball, 365 Days of Ward will be updated EVERY SINGLE DAY for the next year. The site is a …

Less than one month to go before the release of the next Pixar “original” and the publicity is certainly heating up. Billboards are up …

Luca Raffaelli’s Le anime disegnate: Il pensiero nei cartoon da Disney ai giapponesi e oltre may be a very good book, but this cover for …

We’ve entered a new era of Disney-related memoirs–books written by artists who worked at the tail end of animation’s Golden Age or …

Maurice Sendak died this morning due to complications from a recent stroke. The New York Times says he was “widely considered the most …

Didier Ghez, editor of the important Walt’s People anthologies and proprietor of the Disney History blog, interviewed me about my …

My favorite publisher Chronicle Books just put out their Fall/Winter 2012 catalog and they’re releasing more animation and …

I’ve been picking up a lot of good books lately and though they’ve been classic comics-related, all have animated cartoon connections. …

This is turning out to be quite the year for historical Disney animation books. We’ve already announced Pete Docter’s Nine Old Men …

April 2, 1934. Seventy-eight years ago to the day, a twenty-year-old kid started working at Walt Disney Productions. His name was Ward …

As a longtime non-sports card collector, I was delighted when the original series of Garbage Pail Kids stickers came out in 1985. I …

As if yesterday’s news of the Nine Old Men flipbook set wasn’t tantalizing enough, there’s also the Mary Blair Treasury of Golden Books …

The Archive Series–Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men: The Flipbooks will release on September 18. This pet project of UP director Pete Docter …

THANKS TO ALL WHO ENTERED! We’ll do a random drawing and post the results in the comments section sometime on Saturday afternoon. I …

Time for another round-up of recent reads I can highly recommend (How’s that for alliteration?). First up, a magazine: Disney Twenty …

What kind of books might an animation artist have kept on their bookshelf sixty years ago? They certainly wouldn’t have owned many …

I ran into animator Michel Gagné at the Annie Awards last week (where he picked up an Annie for Best Video Game, Insanely Twisted Shadow …

I’ve nearly wrapped up my Ward Kimball biography, but to get it just right, I need a handful of images related to his key characters. …

Over the last seven years, with quiet persistence and unwavering dedication, French animation historian Didier Ghez has been publishing …

Since posting our 2012 animation book preview, I’ve updated the list with additional titles, and one of those books deserves its own …