The Comic Book History Of Animation Av Fred Van Lente, Ryan Dunlavey

From the team behindThe 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 Blacktonand 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 Studiosteaches 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 byThe Simpsons!And go abroad to France withEmile Cohl''sdynamic doodles inFantasmagorie; to Japan, where Momotaro debuts the first full-length anime, Divine Sea Warriors,and Osauma Tezuka conquers TV as he conquered manga; and toArgentina, which beat outSnow Whitefor the first feature length animated movie by two decades!And finally, Jurassic Parkand the computer animation revolution! Post-Little Mermaid Disney, Pixar, and Studio Ghibli conquer the world!