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ASIFA NEWS Vol. 9, #2 has informative features on animation in Iran, medical and scientific animation, Len Lye, Michaela Pavlatova on attending the Stuttgart Festival, a second article on Stuttgart, Pat Amlin's new film and other subject. Copies are free to people who join ASIFA-International.
IN TOON! Summer, 1996 has an excellent profile of Iwao Takamoto, a Japanese American animator who worked for Disney and now at age 71 works for Hanna-Barbera. There is also a long tribute to Virgil Ross who worked for Warner Brothers for many years (he died May 15). For collectors there is an article on Dave Kracov, who at age 28 has created a career doing small sculptures of cartoon characters. The Laser Lunacy column covers The Aristocats, A Rugrats Passover and other recent releases. Chuck Jones' limited edition cels are discussed in detail including two pages of price guides. (A 1977 Duck Dogers Group cel sold for $135 when it came out and it is now said to be worth $3,500. There is lots of auction news in the issue, plus lots of gallery news and ads.
Subscriptions are $18 for 4 issues and $32 for 8. PO Box 487, White Plains, NY 10603. (914) 993-6218.
McBOING BOING'S, THE JOURNAL OF DRAWINGS IN MOTION, August, 1996 has an interesting article on the cover about Schlesinger's work for The Big Broadcast of 1938, a Paramount feature. There is an article about Donald Duck in No Hunting by Jack Hanna, 1955. They say it is one of the better Disney shorts from the '50's. There are reviews of several video tapes including Cartoons Go to War and Carl Barks, The Duck Maestro. There is also a review of the topics the publication has covered in their first 2 years of existence.
Subscriptions are $10 a year from Dewey McGuire, 134 Cardiff Circle, Iowa City, IA 52246 (319) 337-3233.
ANIMATOON, A REALLY BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED WORLD ANIMATION JOURNAL IN KOREAN The quality of the color plates in the publication is exceptional, but unless you read Korean (about 10% of the text is in English), the magazine will be of little value to you. Nelson Shin, who runs a major animation house in Korea, is the editor. I couldn't find a subscription price for it in English, so if you are interested in Animatoon, write 71-7 Munjung-Dong, Song Pa-Ku, Seoul, Korea 138-200 or call 822-443-9928
AWN - ANIMATION WORLD NETWORK is now 4 months old and they have had 410,000 hits in the first 15 weeks. They had 38,000 readers in the last week of July. Our ASIFA-SF site has had 1,103 hits as of Aug. 2 and one person joined as a result of seeing us on the Internet.
As for the content, the July issue had 67 pages of editorial content and featured animation in the spirit of the Olympics. The August issue focused on Japanimation and the Sept. issue will feature international television.
In their "animation village" they have information on several companies, festivals, and sites for ASIFA chapters, the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Union, and Writers Guild of America-Animation Writers Caucus. There is a gallery exhibit of work by Phil Mulloy. A Caroline Leaf exhibit of 18 original drawings is coming soon to a computer near you.
AWN can be reached at http://www.awn.com or (213) 468-2554.
POPEYE IS NOW ON THE WWW at www.midwest.net/orgs/ace1 This is the official Popeye fanclub which publishes a quarterly newsletter. The fall issue contains lots of information about collectables, historical articles & trivia. Subscriptions are $8 a year from 1001 State, Chester, Illinois 62233