From the team behind The Comic Book History of Comics comes the
perfect companion piece telling the story of the triumphs and tragedies
of the filmmakers and beloved characters of the past century and a half
-- essential for hardcore fans of the medium and noobies alike! It's all
here, from Aardman to Zoetrope, Disney to Miyazaki, Hanna-Barbera to
Pixar, and everything in-between!
Begin in the early 1900s with J. Stuart Blackton and the first American
cartoon, Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur, and Felix the Cat! Find
out about Margaret Winkler, the most powerful person in early animation,
and Walt Disney, who revolutionizes cartoons with sound and color!
Discover how Fleischer Studios teaches us to sing Boop-boop-a-doop and
eat our spinach, and how Warner Bros' Looney Toons rivaled Disney's
Silly Symphonies! Plus, icons of animation including Hanna-Barbera,
Huckleberry Hound, The Flintstones, and Ruby-Spears; the Plastic Age
of toy-based TV shows including G.I. Joe, Transformers, and
He-Man; and the new Golden Age of TV animation launched by The
Simpsons!
And go abroad to France with Emile Cohl's dynamic doodles in
Fantasmagorie; to Japan, where Momotaro debuts the first full-length
anime, Divine Sea Warriors, and Osauma Tezuka conquers TV as he
conquered manga; and to Argentina, which beat out Snow White for the
first feature length animated movie by two decades!
And finally, Jurassic Park and the computer animation revolution!
Post-Little Mermaid Disney, Pixar, and Studio Ghibli conquer the
world!
