The Minneapolis Tribune – 1938-03-27
Filed under: resource, Comic, 1930s, U.S.A.
Author: Billy DeBeck, Walt Disney, Fontaine Fox, Harold Gray, Sol Hess, Jim Murphy, Martha Orr, Alex Raymond, E.C. Segar, O. Soglow, Brandon Walsh, Frank Willard, Chic Young, Lyman Young
"Page 1Sappo (E.C. Segar)Thimble Theatre (E.C. Segar)Page 3It's Papa Who Pays! (Jim Murphy)Toots and Casper (Jim Murphy)
The Minneapolis Tribune – 1938-04-10
Filed under: resource, Comic, 1930s, Mickey Mouse, Popeye, U.S.A.
Author: Bill DeBeck, Walt Disney, Fontaine Fox, Sol Hess, Jimmy Murphy, Martha Orr, E.C. Segar, Clarence D. Russell, O. Soglow, Brandon Walsh, Russ Westover, Frank Willard, Chic Young, Lyman Young
"Page 1 Tillie the Toiler (Russ Westover).Page 3Colonel Potterby and the Duchess (Chic Young)Blondie (Chic Young)
The Minneapolis Tribune – 1938-04-17
Filed under: resource, Comic, 1930s, Mickey Mouse, Popeye, U.S.A.
Author: Bill DeBeck, Walt Disney, Fontaine Fox, Jimmy Murphy, Alex Raymond, Clarence D. Russell, E.C. Segar, O. Soglow, Brandon Walsh, Russ Westover, Frank Willard, Chic Young, Lyman Young
"Page 1Sappo (E.C. Segar)Thimble Theatre (E.C. Segar)Page 3Bunky (Bill DeBeck)Barney Google (Bill DeBeck)
The Minneapolis Tribune – 1938-12-09
Filed under: resource, Comic, 1930s, Popeye, U.S.A.
Author: Charles Flanders, Fontaine Fox, Harold Gray, Jimmy Hatlo, Sol Hess, Segar, Willard, Chic Young
"Page 1The Neebs (Sol Hess) - "Friendly Enemies"Secret Agent X9 (Charles Flanders) - "A Microscopic Clue!"Popeye, the Sailorman (Segar) - "Caught With a Carrot"Blondie (Chic Young) - "It's Daisy's Inning"Little Orphan Annie (Harold Gray) - "The Ticket..."
The Minneapolis Tribune – Undated
Filed under: resource, Comic, 1930s, U.S.A.
Author: Billy DeBeck, Martha Orr, E.C. Segar, Brandon Walsh, Chic Young, Lyman Young,
"Page 1Thimble Theatre (E.C. Segar)Page 3Apple Mary (Martha Orr)
The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence
Author: Henry A. Giroux
"In this work, the author shows that Disney is a powerful corporation whose ideology is largely predicated on getting the consumer to buy Disney products far from innocent. This book explores the diverse ways in which Disney, while hiding behind a clo..."
The National Film Board of Canada
Filed under: resource, Website, Canada, Color, Documentary, National Film Board of Canada, Norman McLaren, Pixilation
"The National Film Board of Canada was established in 1939, and has remained a leading support and collaborative base for Canadian directors, filmmakers and animators, many of whom have won numerous awards for their work. The board's official site fea..."
The Principles of Animation
Filed under: resource, Website
"A brief electronic guidebook for drawing animation."
The Production of Animated Cartoons
Filed under: resource, Magazine Article
Author: William Garity
"This article was based on a presentation to the Society's Pacific Coast section on 14 December 1932."
The UCLA Animation Workshop
Filed under: resource, Website
"A Website that is largely concerned with past and current students of the animation workshop. Of pivotal importance is clicking on the history of animation tab where you will be transferred to a "rather incomplete but still fascinating history of ani..."
The Warner Brothers Cartoons
Author: Will Friedwald, Jerry Beck
"The authors present the history of Warner Brothers Cartoons."
The World’s Blackface Database
Filed under: resource, Website
"This resource has a master list of instances of blackface in popular culture."
Tunes for ‘toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon
Author: Daniel Goldmark
"The author examines the process of creating music written for Hollywood animated cartoons of the 1930s through the 1950s. Moreover, the author provides an account of the effort that went into setting cartoons to music, and shows how this effort shape..."
UCLA Preserved Silent Animation
Filed under: resource, Website
"Watch 11 preserved animation cartoons or peruse the historical overview of animation on this site."
Understanding Animation
Author: Paul Wells
"Part history, part theory, part celebration, this book explores approaches to animation through an eclectic range of case studies from Betty Boop and Snow White, to Jan Svankmajer's Jabberwocky. Opening with a discussion of the early history of anima..."
Unsung Heroes of Animation
Author: Chris Robinson
"This is a collection of biographical essays, which focuses on a world of little-known, independent contemporary animators."
Vintage Sleaze
Filed under: resource, Website
Author: Jim Linderman
"A history of "smut" in America by Jim Linderman. It boasts over three million hits, and over a thousand articles."
Visual Complexity
Filed under: resource, Website
"Complex networks or other holes demarcated by the sum of their parts through visualization in order to show what can be lost through compartmentalization."
Walt Disney and Europe: European Influences on the Animated Feature Films of Walt Disney
Author: Robin Allan
"The author examines the way that Europe and European culture influenced Disney and his animators in the making of Disney animated feature films from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The Jungle Book. The author concentrates only on animated feature ..."
Walt Disney, A Bio-Bibliography
Author: Kathy Merlock Jackson
"This is a biography of Walt Disney. Moreover, the author explores Walt Disney's impact on American mass media and popular culture by focusing on animation, live-action film, documentary film, television, books, comic books, magazines, sheet music and..."
Walt Disney: Conversations
Author: Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson
"Bringing together over twenty pieces from the late 1920s to the late 1960s, this book traces Disneys career from early classics such as Steamboat Willie to Snow White, from the construction of Disneyland, to his live-action ventures such as The Micke..."
Walt Disney: His Life in Pictures
Filed under: resource, Book, Walt Disney Studios
Author: Russell Schroeder
"The author was Disney's illustrator for 25 years. This book is a compilation of 178 photos from the company archives. Focusing on Walt Disney's private life, as well as his career as animator, film producer and television personality, the chronologic..."
Walt Disney: Hollywood’s Dark Prince
Author: Marc Eliot
"This book is called the first truly unauthorized biography, and in the case of Disney, unauthorized is important because all previous "authorized" biographies had to pass the scrutiny of Disney Studios. The author shows that Disney's troubled persona..."
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
Author: Neal Gabler
"The author offers the full story (Gabler is the first writer to gain complete access to the Disney archives) of Walt Disney by showing Disney's invention of a "synergistic empire that combined film, television, theme parks, music, book publishing, an..."
Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men and the Art of Animation
Author: John Canemaker
"This book is the story of the "Nine Old Men", who created most of Disney's characters between 1930 and 1970. Each of those animators had his individual styles. The author describes the animated characters they created, their inspirations, and their..."
Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney
Author: Russell Meritt, J. B. Kaufman
"This book is the story of the first eight years (1920-1928) of Disney's career. The book is divided into two parts. In the first part the authors provide a critical overview of Disney's work in the silent era, a free-form speculation on the most im..."
Warner Bros. Animation Art: The Characters, The Creators
Author: Jerry Beck
"The author presents the history of Warner Brothers animations and their characters, and examines the work of such animators as Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, Bob McKimson, Tex Avery, and Chuck Jones."
When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation, Metamorphosis, and Development
Author: Lois R. Kuznets
"The author studies the role of toy characters in the works ranging from older classics like Pinocchio, Winnie the Pooh, and The Velveteen Rabbit, through modern texts like The Mouse and His Child and the popular comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, to the ..."
Winsor McCay: His Life and Art
Author: John Canemaker
"This is a biography of Winsor McCay. In the book the author reviews and analyzes McCay's achievements in print and film while examining his work in relation to his life, family, and to American culture and values of the period. The author shows McCay..."
You Couldn’t Get Chaplin in a Milk Bottle
Filed under: resource, Magazine Article
Author: Joe Adamson
"An interview with Tex Avery."