My Life in 'toons

My Life in 'toons
Author: Joseph Barbera
Publisher: Turner Publications Incorporated
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1994
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This autobiography of the co-creator of some of the world's best-loved animated cartoons characters, including Tom and Jerry, the Flintstones, Yogi Bear, and the Jetsons, paints a warm, candid, and hilarious portrait of a 50-year career of astounding creative output. 16 pages of photos.

Iwao Takamoto

Iwao Takamoto
Author: Iwao Takamoto
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781604731934

The story of the Japanese American artist who created the look of Scooby-Doo and dozens of other unforgettable cartoon icons

'Toons for Our Times

'Toons for Our Times
Author: Berke Breathed
Publisher: Little Brown
Total Pages: 95
Release: 1984
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780316107099

Cartoons deal with computer hackers, personal ads, political campaigns, rock musicians, and toxic waste

Living Life Inside the Lines

Living Life Inside the Lines
Author: Martha Sigall
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781578067497

An insider's account of the wild and wacky teams that created cartoon classics for Warner Bros. and MGM Animation

Chuck Amuck

Chuck Amuck
Author: Chuck Jones
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1999-12-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1466836024

The illustrated classic, complete with a new preface by Matt Groening. Winner of three Academy Awards and numerous other prizes for his animated films, Chuck Jones is the director of scores of famous Warner Bros. cartoons and the creator of such memorable characters as the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Pepé Le Pew, and Marvin Martian. In this beguiling memoir, Chuck Jones evokes the golden years of life at "Termite Terrace," the Warner Bros. studio in which he and his now-famous fellow animators conceived the cartoons that delighted millions of moviegoers throughout the world and entertain new generations of fans on television. Not a mere history, Chuck Amuck captures the antic spirit that created classic cartoons-such as Duck Dodgers in the 241/2 Century, One Froggy Evening, Duck Amuck, and What's Opera, Doc?-with some of the wittiest insights into the art of comedy since Mark Twain.

That's Not All Folks

That's Not All Folks
Author: Mel Blanc
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
Total Pages: 275
Release: 1989-11-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780446390897

The legendary cartoon and radio voice man offers a behind-the-scenes chronicl of his many-voiced career, detailing his creation of world-famous voices and his work with the best-loved cartoon characters and radio personalities.

Beatletoons

Beatletoons
Author: Mitch Axelrod
Publisher: Wynn Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Animated television programs
ISBN: 9780964280878

Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera
Author: Jared Bahir Browsh
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2021-12-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476675791

With careers spanning eight decades, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were two of the most prolific animation producers in American history. In 1940, the two met at MGM and created Tom and Jerry, who would earn 14 Academy Award nominations and seven wins. The growth of television led to the founding of Hanna-Barbera's legendary studio that produced countless hours of cartoons, with beloved characters from Fred Flintstone, George Jetson and Scooby-Doo to the Super Friends and the Smurfs. Prime-time animated sitcoms, Saturday morning cartoons, and Cartoon Network's cable animation are some of the many areas of television revolutionized by the team. Their productions are critical to our cultural history, reflecting ideologies and trends in both media and society. This book offers a complete company history and examines its productions' influences, changing technologies, and enduring cultural legacy, with careful attention to Hanna-Barbera's problematic record of racial and gender representation.

Voice Lessons

Voice Lessons
Author: Rob Paulsen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1632281228

Rob Paulsen is one of Hollywood’s busiest, most talented, and most passionate performers. If you don’t know him by name, you will know him by the many characters he has brought to life: Pinky from Pinky and the Brain, Yakko from Animaniacs, the tough but loveable Raphael from the original animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and many more. So you can imagine how terrifying it must have been when Rob was diagnosed with throat cancer, putting his entire livelihood in jeopardy and threatening to rob the world of all his loveable characters that filled our youths and adulthoods with humor and delight. Voice Lessons tells the heartwarming and life-affirming story of Rob’s experience with an aggressive cancer treatment and recovery regimen, which luckily led to a full recovery. Rob quickly returned to doing what he loves most, but with a much deeper appreciation of what he came so close to losing. His new lease on life inspired him to rededicate himself to his fans, particularly the new friends he made along the way: hundreds of sick children and their families. Rob said it best himself: “I can not only continue to make a living, but make a difference, and I can’t wait to use that on the biggest scale that I can.”

Hollywood Cartoons

Hollywood Cartoons
Author: Michael Barrier
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 670
Release: 2003-11-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0199839220

In Hollywood Cartoons, Michael Barrier takes us on a glorious guided tour of American animation in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, to meet the legendary artists and entrepreneurs who created Bugs Bunny, Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, Wile E. Coyote, Donald Duck, Tom and Jerry, and many other cartoon favorites. Beginning with black-and-white silent cartoons, Barrier offers an insightful account, taking us inside early New York studios and such Hollywood giants as Disney, Warner Bros., and MGM. Barrier excels at illuminating the creative side of animation--revealing how stories are put together, how animators develop a character, how technical innovations enhance the "realism" of cartoons. Here too are colorful portraits of the giants of the field, from Walt and Roy Disney and their animators, to Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera. Based on hundreds of interviews with veteran animators, Hollywood Cartoons gives us the definitive inside look at this colorful era and at the creative process behind these marvelous cartoons.