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Cartoon Brew’s Holiday Book Gift Guide 2018
Enjoy Cartoon Brew’s 2018 hand-picked guide to 40 animation and animation-adjacent books that’ll delight your favorite cartoon buff.
⭓ SOLID ANIMATION BETS
Go Team Venture!: The Art and Making of The Venture Bros.
The Art of Ralph Breaks the Internet
Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney’s Animation
Masaaki Yuasa Sketchworks
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse -The Art of the Movie
The Art of Incredibles 2
The Wes Anderson Collection: Isle of Dogs
Bojack Horseman: The Art Before the Horse
They Drew As They Pleased Vol 4: The Hidden Art of Disney’s Mid-Century Era: The 1950s and 1960s
Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History
⭓ UNCONVENTIONAL ANIMATION-RELATED DELIGHTS
Before Ever After: The Lost Lectures of Walt Disney’s Animation Studio
The Animators
Walt Disney’s Disneyland
The Lost Notebook: Herman Schultheis & the Secrets of Walt Disney’s Movie Magic
Learn to Draw Mickey Mouse & Friends Through the Decades
Character Design Quarterly 5
⭓ ILLUSTRATION
Fantastic Worlds: The Art of William Stout
This is M. Sasek: The Extraordinary Life and Travels of the Beloved Children’s Book Illustrator
Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists
The Sketchbook of Loish: Art in Progress
Harryhausen: The Movie Posters
Al Parker: Illustrator, Innovator
Mudbite
Border Bang
⭓ FOR THE ANIMATION BUFF WHO WANTS TO EXPAND THEIR HORIZONS
The Game Console: A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox
Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies
Protest: The Aesthetics of Resistance
California Crazy: American Pop Architecture
Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California and Graphic Design, 1936-1986
⭓ LONG READS
The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies
Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
⭓ COMING IN 2019…BUT MAY AS WELL PRE-ORDER NOW
A Grand Success!: The Aardman Journey, One Frame at a Time
Doom Doom Doom: The Art of Invader Zim
The Illumination Art of Eric Guillon
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit
Screwball! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny
The FLCL Archives
I Moved to Los Angeles to Work in Animation
