French animation history Didier Ghez, publisher of the indispensable WALT'S PEOPLE interview series, has started working on a new book called BUGS' BUDDIES, which is a collection of interview with Golden Age Warner Bros. animation artists. He's currently looking for a volunteer or two to help transcribe a couple of interviews with Bob Clampett and Dave Monahan. Didier's work in compiling these interviews is of great value to the animation community, and considering the books are self-published via print-on-demand, they're obviously not being done for financial gain. Definitely a worthy cause. His note and contact info are below:
I have started working on a book project called Bugs' Buddies, which aims to collect the best interviews ever conducted with Warner Bros. animation artists of the Golden Age. In order to achieve this however, I am
looking for one or two big fans of Warner animation who'd be willing to
transcribe two fantastic sets of interviews that I have received recently. One is an extremely long session with Bob Clampett conducted by Reg Hartt, the other is an interview with animator Dave Monahan by Robert Story.I would transcribe those myself if English was my mother tongue. Unfortunately this is not the case and it makes this complicated task close to impossible. I won't lie: transcribing is a complex and painstaking task and the interviews are loooong, but I hope one or several of you will be motivated enough to volunteer and help preserve these key nuggets of animation history. Please contact me at dghez [at] hotmail.com