The Comic Book History of Animation: True Toon Tales of the Most Iconic Characters Artists and Styles!

<b>From the team behind&#160;<i>The Comic Book History of Comics</i> 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!&#160;It's all here from Aardman to Zoetrope Disney to Miyazaki Hanna-Barbera to Pixar and everything in-between!</b><br><br>Begin in the early 1900s with J. Stuart Blackton&#160;and the first American cartoon&#160;Winsor McCay's <i>Gertie the Dinosaur</i> and <i>Felix the Cat</i>!&#160;Find out about Margaret Winkler the most powerful person in early animation&#160;and Walt Disney who revolutionizes cartoons with sound and color! Discover how Fleischer Studios&#160;teaches us to sing Boop-boop-a-doop and eat our spinach and how Warner Bros' <i>Looney Toons</i> rivaled Disney's <i>Silly Symphonies</i>! Plus icons of animation including Hanna-Barbera <i>Huckleberry Hound</i> <i>The Flintstones</i> and Ruby-Spears; the Plastic Age of toy-based TV shows including <i>G.I. Joe</i> <i>Transformers</i> and <i>He-Man</i>; and the new Golden Age of TV animation launched by&#160;<i>The Simpsons</i>!<br><br>And go abroad to France with&#160;Emile Cohl's&#160;dynamic doodles in&#160;<i>Fantasmagorie</i>; to Japan where Momotaro debuts the first full-length anime <i>Divine Sea Warriors</i>&#160;and Osauma Tezuka conquers TV as he conquered manga; and to&#160;Argentina which beat out&#160;<i>Snow White</i>&#160;for the first feature length animated movie by two decades!<br><br>And finally <i>Jurassic Park</i>&#160;and the computer animation revolution! Post-<i>Little Mermaid</i> Disney Pixar and Studio Ghibli conquer the world!