Hardcover. Solana Beach CA, Santa Monica Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 231 pages. Illustrated in color. "I Say, I Say . . . Son!" offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the work of the McKimson brothers, three of the most accomplished and influential animators in history. Tracing the brothers' careers from the 1920s onward, this beautifully illustrated book details how Bob McKimson created such beloved characters as Foghorn Leghorn, the Tasmanian Devil, Sylvester Jr., and the original Speedy Gonzales, and explores Chuck and Tom McKimson's voluminous body of work at Warner Bros. Cartoons, Dell Comics, and Golden Books. Featuring original art from the Golden Age of Animation, "I Say, I Say . . . Son!" includes a wealth of material from the top animation archives--original drawings, reproductions of animation cels, comic book illustrations, lobby cards, and screen captures--along with never-before-seen photographs and other memorabilia from author Robert McKimson Jr.'s personal collection. "I Say, I Say . . . Son!" is a vibrant tribute to three groundbreaking animators whose long careers included work on the Looney Tunes, Pink Panther, and Mr. Magoo series, as well as many other animation classics.
Hardcover. San Rafael, CA, Insight Editions, 2nd, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Laminated boards. Color illustrations throughout. Clean, tight copy. n a world of rascally rabbits, megalomaniacal ducks, and stuttering pigs, what defines greatness? This question was posed to thousands of cartoon fans, historians, and animators to create The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons, the definitive Looney Tunes collection. Jerry Beck and the Cartoon Brew team of animation experts reveal the amusing anecdotes and secret origins behind such classics as "What's Opera, Doc?," "One Froggy Evening," and "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 th Century." Featuring more than 300 pieces of original art from private collectors and the Warner Bros. archives, The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons settles the debate on the best of the best, and poses a new question: Is your favorite one of the greatest?
Hardcover. New York, Disney Editions, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. With an introduction by John Lasseter-and very little else in the way of words-this second book in The Artist Series lavishly showcases the most brilliant animation created by such luminaries as Ub Iwerks, Norm Ferguson, Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske, Dick Huemer, Grim Natwick, Art Babbitt, Fred Moore, Bill Tytla, Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, Milt Kahl, Marc Davis, John Lounsbery, Ward Kimball, Eric Larson, Les Clark, Wolfgang Reitherman, John Sibley, Bill Justice, Clyde Geronimi, Ted Berman, Glen Keane, Andreas Deja, Eric Goldberg, Mark Henn and Tony Bancroft.
Hardcover. NY, Disney Editions, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A study of a top animation designer and graphic artist who influenced the look of many Disney films. 110 pages, illustrated in color. Foreward by Roy Disney. Small bump to corner, dust jacket with slight rubbing. Otherwise, clean and tight.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Features concept art from the making of the film, including character studies and sculpture, color scripts, storyboards and more, alongside interviews and with the film's artists about the making of this adventurous animated film. 159 pages.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Studio, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 271 pages including an Index and a Chronology of Hanna-Barbera Animated Series. Color illustrations throughout. SIGNED BY BOTH HANNA AND BARBERA.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion/Disney Editions, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Light wear to edges of dust jacket, else like new. Beautiful & quite lavish book on the making of the Disney full length animated feature. Illustrated with 400 color & b&w drawings, sketches & artwork including an acetate overlay & storyboards.
Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 209 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Animation historian John Canemaker chronicles the lives and work of sketch artists at Disney from the 1930s to the present.
New York, Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. Color and black & white photography and illustrations. "Chicken Run" is the first feature from Aardman Animation, the animation studio responsible for the award-winning "Wallace & Gromit" films. This book tells the complete story of the making of this epic adventure, taking the reader into Aardman's magical world.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 304 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio. He directed many of the classic short animated cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester, Pepe Le Pew and a slew of other Warner characters.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 114 pages. Creator of the mono-maniacal Wile E. Coyote and his elusive prey, the Road Runner, Chuck Jones has won three Academy Awards and been responsible for many classics of animation featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd. Who better to do Chuck Jones than Hugh Kenner, master wordsmith and technophile, a man especially qualified to illuminate the form of literacy that Jones so wonderfully executes in the art of character animation? A Flurry of Drawings reveals in cartoon-like sequences the irrepressible humor and profound reflection that have shaped Chuck Jones's work. Unlike Walt Disney, Jones and his fellow animators at Warner Brothers were not interested in cartoons that mimicked reality. They pursued instead the reality of the imagination, the Toon world where believability is more important than realism and movement is the ultimate aesthetic arbiter.
Hardcover. New York , Time Warner International, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 286 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Foreward by Robin Williams. The director of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Road Runner cartoons discusses his childhood influences, gives advice on how to draw, and reveals how his characters were created.
Hardcover. New York , Hyperion, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. 232 pages, color and b&w illustrations, index. Navy blue cloth binding with blind-stamped facsimile signatures of Johnston and Thomas on front cover and gold-stamped titles on spine.
Hardcover. New York, Disney Editions, Revised Ed., 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, illustrated in color. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. While the literary Pooh continues to win new generations of fans, an on-screen Pooh was destined to expand the appeal of the Hundred-Acre Wood. In 1961, Walt Disney acquired the exclusive film rights to Milne's Pooh stories. Since then, The Walt Disney Company has produced numerous shorts, features, and television shows about the Silly Old Bear, and that tradition continues with the release of the 2011 film, Winnie the Pooh. Winnie the Pooh: A Celebration of the Silly Old Bear is a tribute to the wonder of Pooh, from his origin and literary success to his brilliant animated career and continued popularity. This is his story; but, moreover, it is his art--including more than 200 illustrations that detail the evolution of Pooh and his friends from stuffed toys to animated characters.
Hardcover. NY, Disney Press, 1st thus, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 421 pages illustrated in color. illustrations from animated classics Includes Cinderella, Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Robin Hood, Ichabod Crane, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Bambi, Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree and more. The first combined edition which reprints two previously published books. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. New York , Bounty Books, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages, large format softcover. Features all the famous animated characters from the golden age of animation. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 274 pages, color illustrations, very good paperback & cover (exhibition catalog) The essays are: the art of visual culture: comics; graphic novels; animated cartoons; computer & video games: anime; manga; visual art.
Softcover. Paris, Nathan Image, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Unpaginated. Approximately 175 pages, mostly color reproductions of Avery's storyboard drawings from his glory years at Warner Bros. and MGM. FRENCH TEXT. This lavishly illustrated reference is shot from the original storyboards of Avery's various cartoons shorts. These are annotated by Avery in pencil. For any fan of American cartoon shorts & Tex Avery in particular, this is an essential guide.
Softcover. New York , Watson-Guptill, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages, 75 color, b&w illustrations. Terrific book that covers nearly forty animators from the U.S. and around the world. Includes in-depth profiles of their careers and work including the early pioneers of animation. Also includes synopses of films and many full color images.
Softcover. NY, Random House, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated. Color throughout. Max Headroom, as you may remember, is the hipper alter ego of Edison Carter (Matt Frewer) and his adventures in the future. Carter is a top notch tv reporter, the lovely Theora Ward, the controller, is played by the lovely Amanda Pays. The show gives you a dark smoky view of the future - and this book, the starting movie of the series, replicates that look It has the script from the movie, as well as action shots. Clean, bright copy.
NY, St. Martins, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black & white illustrations. 442 pages. The story of the popular Rocky and Bullwinkle show. The legendary Jay Ward and Bill Scott produced the gleeful wonder and cumulative joy that transcended the crude drawings and occasionally muddy sound. Jay Ward was the magnificent visionary, the outrageous showman, while Bill Scott was the genial, brilliant head writer, coproducer, and all-purpose creative whirlwind. With exclusive interviews, original scripts, artwork, story notes, letters and memos, Keith Scott has written the definitive history of Jay Ward Productions.
Softcover. NY, Plume/New American Library, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 470 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Film historian and critic, Leonard Maltin's extensively researched book about the world of animated cartoons. Illustrated with drawings, photographs, and color posters. With studio filmographies, Academy Award nominees and winners, glossary of animation terms, source listings, and index. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Disney Editions, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was created in 1927 by Walt Disney and his team through twenty-six cartoon shorts. Not without fits and starts, the series and its impish title character were an instant hit with audiences. At the end of that initial run, Walt lost the contract to Oswald, which prompted the creation of Mickey Mouse. Over the years, Oswald became a footnote in the Disney story . . . until 2006, when The Walt Disney Company recovered rights to Walt's twenty-six shorts. Bumped corners, otherwise very good.
Softcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. An entertaining collection celebrating the work of cutting-edge animation filmmakers features frame grabs, production stills, original artwork, behind-the-scenes photographs, and interviews from twenty-five years of teh Spike & Mike Festival of Animation, with works by Nick Park and Peter Lord of Aardman, John Lasseter, Craig McCracken, Mike Judge, and others.
Softcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. An entertaining collection celebrating the work of cutting-edge animation filmmakers features frame grabs, production stills, original artwork, behind-the-scenes photographs, and interviews from twenty-five years of teh Spike & Mike Festival of Animation, with works by Nick Park and Peter Lord of Aardman, John Lasseter, Craig McCracken, Mike Judge, and others.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 2nd Ed., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. Canemaker's second volume on Disney animation (his first was Before the Animation Begins, pub. 11/15/96) covers new territory. Focusing on the birth and progression of the storyboard method, the noted animator/historian explores both the history and the personalities of the Disney storyboard department. He takes readers from the early Disney days (when Walt created the storyboard to add depth and substance to the animated shorts the early studio produced) to today (when ever-changing teams of story specialists gather material and prepare sequence drawings before artists flesh out those Disney masterpieces). Along the way, Canemaker reveals the human effort required to bring an animated film to life and throws in juicy tidbits garnered from his interviews with animation pioneers. Lavish illustrations accompany the text. Recommended for larger public libraries and essential for collections in film and animation history.
Hardcover. NY, Disney Editions, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Featuring the art and artists used to plan and map out Disney's many classic animated films, a collection of "storyboard" images offers a fascinating retrospective of the company's history of animation, from Snow White to The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Hardcover. NY, Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Celebrates every move the Pink Panther has ever made over the past forty years, from the original Pink Panther movie starring Peter Sellers and the long-running animated series to the movie starring Steve Martin, Beyonce Knowles, and Kevin Kline.
Hardcover. US, Walt Disney Family Foundation Press, 1sr, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white & color photographs. In 1940, Walt Disney released his second feature film: Pinocchio, based on Carlo Collodi's 1883 Italian children's novel. The film was groundbreaking: it pioneered the latest animation and sound technology of the era, and established a blueprint for Disney filmmaking that remains intact today. It became the first animated feature to win a competitive Academy Award® (in fact, it won two), and earned a place on the roster of the National Film Registry.
Hardcover. US, Walt Disney Family Foundation Press, 1sr, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white & color photographs. In 1940, Walt Disney released his second feature film: Pinocchio, based on Carlo Collodi's 1883 Italian children's novel. The film was groundbreaking: it pioneered the latest animation and sound technology of the era, and established a blueprint for Disney filmmaking that remains intact today. It became the first animated feature to win a competitive Academy Award® (in fact, it won two), and earned a place on the roster of the National Film Registry.
Hardcover. US, Walt Disney Family Foundation Press, 1sr, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white & color photographs. In 1940, Walt Disney released his second feature film: Pinocchio, based on Carlo Collodi's 1883 Italian children's novel. The film was groundbreaking: it pioneered the latest animation and sound technology of the era, and established a blueprint for Disney filmmaking that remains intact today. It became the first animated feature to win a competitive Academy Award® (in fact, it won two), and earned a place on the roster of the National Film Registry.
Softcover. Edinburgh, National Galleries Of Scotland, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Special-effects superstar Ray Harryhausen elevated stop-motion animation to an art during the 1950s to 1980s. With material drawn from his incredible archive, his daughter, Vanessa, selects 100 creatures and objects, in chronological order, that meant the most to her as she watched her father make world-famous films that changed the course of cinema. Ray Harryhausen's work included the Sinbad films of the 50s and 70s, One Million Years B.C. and Mighty Joe Young, as well as a wider portfolio including children's fairy tales and commercials. He inspired a generation of film-makers such as Peter Jackson, Aardman Animation, Tim Burton, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, and his influence on blockbuster cinema can be felt to this day. Some of the objects featured in the book, such as Talos from Jason and the Argonauts, are world famous, while others are less well known but hold special personal significance to Vanessa. Many newly restored works that have never previously been seen are included.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages. Color and b&w illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 79 pages. Hardcover facsimile copy of the original 1937 edition in full color. Black boards with white titles to spine. Full page, full color & bw illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. Tight bindng, sharp corners, illustrated endpapers, clean & unmarked pages throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 252 pages. B&W and color animation throughout. Pictorial dust jacket, slight wear to covers, edges, and spine. Dust jacket price-clipped. Blue boards with gilt title to spine. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis/NY, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 292 pages illustrated in b&w and color. A detailed look at the making of an ambitious hand-drawn feature. It captures the overlap of Golden Age masters (Art Babbitt, Emery Hawkins, Grim Natwick...), the best of the 1970s New York animation scene (Tissa David, Michael Sporn...) and soon-to-be legends at the start of their careers (Eric Goldberg, Dan Haskett...) as orchestrated by a young Richard Williams. Fascinating and very well put together by the prolific animation historian John Canemaker. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chronicle Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 160 pages. Explores the artistic vision upon which the film of an ambitious rat was built with a concept art, including storyboards, full-colour pastels, pencil sketches, maquettes, and others. This book includes extensive quotes from the artists and production team and a foreword by director Brad Bird. 300 plates in color.
Glendale CA, Disnet Editions, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in pictorial boards stamped in gilt. 175 pages in color. Every little girl has a favourite Disney Princess. In The Art of the Disney Princess, Walt Disney Company artists, designers, illustrators and animators from around the world have re-imagined their favourite Princesses and portrayed them in a variety of media. Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle and Jasmine are newly incarnated in watercolour, pastel, oil paint, coloured pencil, mixed media and computer graphics pieces that range from the traditional to the unconventional. A truly collectible book for all art aficionados and Disney devotees. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 3rd pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 312 pages, many b&w illustrations. An attractive copy of Maltin's encyclopedic companion to Disney's work.
Softcover. Chicago, Chicago Review Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 322 pages, b&w illustrations. An essential piece of Disney history has been unreported for eighty years.Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walts expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941, years in which he and Walt were jointly driven to elevate animation as an art form, up through Snow White, Pinocchio, and Fantasia.But as America prepared for World War II, labour unions spread across Hollywood. Disney fought the unions while Babbitt embraced them. Soon, angry Disney cartoon characters graced picket signs as hundreds of animation artists went out on strike. Adding fuel to the fire was Willie Bioff, one of Al Capones wiseguys who was seizing control of Hollywood workers and vied for the animators union.Using never-before-seen research from previously lost records, including conversation transcriptions from within the studio walls, author and historian Jake S. Friedman reveals the details behind the labour dispute that changed animation and Hollywood forever. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 271 pages. Journey into the mind and creative process of one of the most celebrated anime directors working today with The Man Who Leapt Through Film: The Art of Mamoru Hosoda. Written by renowned animation critic and historian Charles Solomon (The Art of WolfWalkers) and featuring exclusive interviews alongside hundreds of never-before-seen sketches, storyboards, background paintings, character designs, and concept art, this is the ultimate companion piece to Hosoda's work. Writer/director/animator Mamoru Hosoda's work includes Belle (2021), the Academy Award-nominated Mirai (2018); The Boy and the Beast (2015); Wolf Children (2012); Summer Wars (2009); and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006). He is the cofounder of Studio Chizu, one of Japan's premier animation studios. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown and Company, ARC, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, uncorrected proof. 364 pages. the untold, richly detailed story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have enthralled generations For the first time, author Nathalia Holt recounts their dramatic stories, showing how these women infiltrated the all-male domain of Disney's story and animation departments and used early technologies to create the rich artwork and unforgettable story lines that have become part of the American canon. Over the decades - while battling sexism, domestic abuse, and workplace intimidation - these women also fought to transform the way female characters are depicted to young audiences.Based on extensive interviews and exclusive access to archival and personal documents. Clean copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2019, Hardcover, oblong, 208 pages. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Disney animation studio redefined its creative vision in the wake of Walt Disney's death. This latest volume from renowned Disney historian Didier Ghez profiles Ken Anderson and Mel Shaw, whose work defined beloved classic Disney characters from films like The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, Robin Hood, and The Rescuers. Descriptions of passages from the artists' autobiographies and interviews, accompanied by never-before-seen images of their art and process. Like new with a dust jacket.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages illustrated in color. As the Walt Disney Studio entered its first decade and embarked on some of the most ambitious animated films of the time, Disney hired a group of "concept artists" whose sole mission was to explore ideas and inspire their fellow animators. They Drew as They Pleased showcases four of these early pioneers and features artwork developed by them for the Disney shorts from the 1930s, including many unproduced projects, as well as for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and some early work for later features such as Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 248 pages illustrated in color. Heading into the 1940s, Disney crafted an entirely new division of the studio called the Character Model Department, which focused solely on the details of character development. This latest volume from famed Disney historian Didier Ghez profiles six remarkable artists from that department, sharing uncommon and never-before-seen images of their influential work behind the scenes.
Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink wrap. Drawing on interviews and revealing hundreds of rediscovered images that inspired Disney's films during one of its most prolific eras, this volume captures the rich stories of the artists who brought the characters to life and helped shape the future of animation.
Hardcover. Berkeley/Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 225 pages, illustrated in b&w. In the first in-depth examination of music written for Hollywood animated cartoons of the 1930s through the 1950s, Daniel Goldmark provides a brilliant account of the enormous creative effort that went into setting cartoons to music and shows how this effort shaped the characters and stories that have become embedded in American culture. Focusing on classical music, opera, and jazz, Goldmark considers the genre and compositional style of cartoons produced by major Hollywood animation studios, including Warner Bros., MGM, Lantz, and the Fleischers. Tunes for 'Toons discusses several well-known cartoons in detail, including What's Opera, Doc?, the 1957 Warner Bros. parody of Wagner and opera that is one of the most popular cartoons ever created.
Hardcover. NY, Disney Editions, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. One Joe was in his ninety-seventh year when he died in 2005; the other Joe died the same year at age forty-five. Both died before their time. This book explores the interplay between personal creativity and the craft of animation storytelling, as seen through the lives and art of two of its greatest practitioners: Joe Grant and Joe Ranft. Grant and Ranft were unique influences on storytelling at two major studios during important periods in the history of animation. Joe Grant, in fact, straddled two eras. A gifted newspaper caricaturist, he contributed ideas for Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony shorts as well as classic masterworks like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; Pinocchio; Fantasia; and Dumbo. As Walt Disney's confidant, Grant played a leading role in defining Disney's pioneering animation legacy. He returned to the studio at eighty-one after a fortyyear hiatus, his creative spirit and abilities undiminished, and made significant contributions to Beauty and the Beast; Aladdin; Mulan; and The Lion King, among others. Joe Ranft built on the traditions of the past forged by Grant and others to become the top animation storyboard artist of his generation, working on Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas; The Brave Little Toaster; Who Framed Roger Rabbit; James and the Giant Peach; The Little Mermaid; and Beauty and the Beast, among other films. As one of Pixar's creative founders and a close friend of John Lasseter's, Ranft had a major influence on the studio's signature originality, warmth, and irreverent humor, through his contributions to Toy Story; Toy Story 2; A Bug's Life; Monsters, Inc.; and Cars.
 "Les Dessins Tex Avery: 1908-1980by: Brion, Patrick")
 "Max Headroom, 20 Minutes Into The Futureby: Roberts, Steve")
 "Outlaw Animation: Cutting-Edge Cartoons from the Spike and Mike Festivalsby: Beck, Jerry")
 "Pinocchio: The Making of the Disney Epicby: Kaufman, J.B.")
 "Pinocchio: The Making of the Disney Epicby: Kaufman, J.B.")
 "Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinemaby: Vanessa Harryhausen")
 "The Art of the Disney Princess: Celebrating Jasmine from Disney Aladdinby: Disney Editions")
 "The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Ageby: Friedman, Jake S.")
