The Definitive Saul Bass Book Has Arrived

Resistance is futile! Pat Kirkham’s long-overdue book about graphic design legend and motion picture title innovator Saul Bass is finally …

“The Art of Pixar” Now Shipping

Amazon’s website is now showing that they have copies of my latest book in stock. That would be The Art of Pixar: The Complete Color …

Puss In Books

Never judge a book by its cover – especially the one pictured at left. The artwork inside is more like the fantastic painting above. I …

More New Books

Who says print is dead? It’s been about a month since my last batch of book reviews and I’ve come up with four new books worthy of your …

JibJab Launches iPad Book App

Publishing isn’t dying, it’s just becoming more animated. Los Angeles-based JibJab sees an opportunity to benefit from the emergence of …

Ward Kimball: A Biography

I’m sure that after all my incessant musings and ramblings about this guy, some readers have already figured out that something’s up. So …

An Update on Sketchtravel

Here’s an animated piece by Maud Remy and Gérald Guerlais describing Sketchtravel, a sketchbook that has been sent around the globe and …

“Popeye Cook Book”

Coming soon: London-based graphic novels publisher Self Made Hero (Moomins) will be releasing this fall, an illustrated kids-skewing …

New Brew Revue

Spent the weekend going over some new book acquisitions (and one DVD) and surprise! most were pretty good – and a couple were really …

“Chuck Jones: The Dream That Never Was”

To commemorate the 2012 centennial of Chuck Jones’s birth, IDW’s Library of American Comics will publish Chuck Jones: The Dream That …

Chronicle’s Fall 2011 Animation Books

My favorite publisher Chronicle Books recently announced their fall publishing line-up and it includes three books that may be of …

CBS on animator Tim Walker

A few months ago I posted about my friend, animator James “Tim” Walker who was diagnosed with Lateral Parkinsons Disease on his right …

Two new books you MUST buy!

If I can make each and every one of you buy a book this week, it would be one or both of these – Simply put, these are two of the best …

More Wabbit Witerature

Mega collector Tim Hollis read my post about the cartoon references in Norwood and sent in this neat one he found in Beverly Cleary’s …

BOOK EXCERPT: “Directing Animation”

New York animation director and ASIFA-East president David Levy has written a trio of helpful books aimed at young artists entering the …

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