Animators

Grim Natwick’s Scrapbook

No one animator’s career covered the history of animation, with so many important cultural touchstones, as Grim Natwick. His work spanned …

Books

Book Review: To Infinity and Beyond

To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios (Chronicle Books, 2007) by Karen Paik is exactly the type of book you’d …

Books

Bear Manor Books

While I was traveling to New York and Canada last week, I had the opportunity to catch up on several new books – including a trio of …

Old Brew

Upcoming Ratatouille Books

In addition to THE ART OF RATATOUILLE, there’s a couple other books based on Pixar’s upcoming RATATOUILLE that are worth mentioning here. …

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Flickr: Cartoon Modern Yearbook

I’ve been tinkering around with Flickr the past couple days (so maybe that should be spelled ‘tinkring’) and the results are the …

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NANCY BEIMAN’S BOOK

Disney and Warner Bros. animator/director and teacher, Nancy Beiman is writing her first book: PREPARE TO BOARD! Creating Story and …

Animators

PRESTON BLAIR’S ANIMATION BOOK

You know it. You have it. You’ve studied it from cover to cover. Preston Blair’s ANIMATION is the book on character animation basics. …

Illustration

T. Hee Book Cover

Film composer Alex Rannie emailed over this great book jacket with a caricature of MUSIC MAN writer/composer Meredith Willson drawn by …

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CARTOON TRUCK

Robert Luczun, a grade school art teacher in New Jersey, sent me some photos of his truck – which he’s decorated every inch of with comic …

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FUNNIEST. BOOK. EVER!

I’ve been laughing all weekend over a copy of COMIC BOOK GUY’S BOOK OF POP CULTURE, one of the small Harper Collins books in The Simpsons …

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I AM 8-BIT: THE BOOK

Chronicle Books is going to be making a lot of people happy in April 2006. Not only is my 50s design book coming out then, but my friend …

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