ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE, A GREAT REASON TO USE THE INTERNET You can spend a lot to subscribe to other magazines that provide short and often meaningless stories about the animation trade, or you can read AWM on the internet (free) and get a lot of current news, book reviews, film reviews, software reviews, informative articles, and more. Much of their news can not to be found in print elsewhere.To give you some idea about how Heather Kenyon, the editor-in-chief, is on top of things, Wild Brain's FernGully 2 was on the cover of their March issue (it was released in mid-March). Protozoa's virtual Bill Clinton was on the cover of the January issue. That month it aired on MTV.
AWM also offers a free news service that provides weekly information about the industry, often before it appears anywhere else. Wendy Jackson does a great job finding the news and reporting it.The magazine goes where others fear to tread - they cover the history of animation's past and they are willing to publish critical stories. AWM isn't a vanity publication that mainly says nice things about the companies that advertise in it. There is very little advertising so one reads it for content, not for cute ads. What seems to be important to the publisher is that the editors do a remarkable job - and they do. Check them out at www.awn.com KC
CORRECTION ON HOW TO REACH McBOING BOING, THE JOURNAL OF DRAWINGS IN MOTION Last month there was a review of their final issue. The phone number given turned out to be their fax number. If you wish to contact them call (319) 337-3233. You can also fax them at (319) 337-5410.
GENE DEITCH'S FOR THE LOVE OF PRAGUE ORDERING INFORMATION & NEWS OF HIS SECOND BOOK In a note of thanks for the review of his fine book he mentioned he has run out of copies to sell at $15. He will try to fill any orders coming in soon at that price, but in the future please order directly from the distributor, Peter Lemkins, PO Box 136, CZ 110 01 Prague 01, Czech Republic. The regular price is $20. Deitch says his next book will be about his animation career and that work has started on it. The title will be "HOW TO SUCCEED IN ANIMATION - Don't let a little thing like failure stop you!" He writes, "It's still in early outline form, and a good ways down the pike, but it will, as the title suggests, not dwell on my successes, but on my more spectacular failures! I feel that will be far more instructive to hopeful animators, than any list of self-puffery I might cobble together. It will definitely cover my Hollywood and New York periods, and even my little known Detroit period, as well as the work I have done here in Prague... I have some crazy stories to tell."
