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ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 4.4 - JULY 1999

 

This Month's Contributors

Note: Readers may contact any Animation World Magazine contributor by sending an e-mail to editor@awn.com.

Paul T. Abramson and David D. Williamson has been specializing, as a writing team, in family films, comedy, and feature animation screenplays since 1987.

Ralph Bakshi is the director of The Mighty Heroes, Fritz the Cat, Heavy Traffic, The Lord of the Rings, Fire and Ice, Cool World, American Pop, and other films, as well as television series like Spicy City and Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures.

Jerry Beck is a cartoon historian, writer and animation studio executive. He was editor of The 50 Greatest Cartoons (Turner), recently co-wrote Warner Bros. Animation Art (Levin) and is currently a freelance writer and consultant through his own company, Cartoon Research Co.

Irwin Chusid is curator of the Raymond Scott Archives.

Christian Davin is founder of Alphanim, a French animation production house, and President of SPFA, a French Animation Producers Union.

Don Duga is Director/Animator for Polestar Films, New York, and an Instructor of Animation at The School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Martin "Dr. Toon" Goodman is a longtime student and fan of animation. He lives in Anderson, Indiana.

Eric Huelsman is the head of the 3D computer graphics center at the Abram Friedman Occupational Center.

Heather Kenyon is editor-in-chief of Animation World Magazine.

David Kilmer is Associate Editor of Animation World Magazine, a filmmaker, and author of The Animated Film Collector's Guide: WorldWide Sources for Cartoons on Videotape and Laserdisc (1997, John Libbey & Co.). He is currently working on The Do-It-Yourself Cartoon I.D. Kit, a companion volume to his earlier book.

Thomas Korn is a freelance writer living in the south of Lower Saxony. He writes about film and tv production/post-production for special interest magazines in Europe such as 3D Live in Germany and Video Age in Great Britain.

Cedric Littardi is one of the founders of the AnimeLand magazine in France and has worked as a specialized journalist in various European countries. He created the first Japanese anime label in France (KAZE Animation) and now works as a consultant in all graphic and animation areas.

Eric Lurio is a New York-based cartoonist and writer who has written extensively on animation for several years. His articles have appeared in Animation Magazine, Animation Blast, Animation Planet and Animefantastique. He also has a regular column in Animato!

Mike Lyons is a Long Island-based freelance writer who has written over 100 articles on film and animation. His work has appeared in Cinefantastique, Animato! and The Disney Magazine.

Bill Plympton is an award-winning independent animator based in New York. His new feature film, I Married A Strange Person, is currently touring the festival circuit. Bill Plympton's web site can be seen in AWN's Animation Village at http://www.awn.com/plympton.

Gerard Raiti, a Baltimore native, has been an avid comic book fan for twelve years and has reported on animation for various publications including AnotherUniverse.com.

Sharon Schatz works in the programming department for Fox Family Channel, and is a writer based in Los Angeles. A lover of children's books, she is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI).

Charles Solomon is an internationally respected critic and historian of animation. His most recent books include The Disney That Never Was (Hyperion, 1995), Les Pionniers du Dessin Animé Américain (Dreamland, Paris, 1996) and Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation (Knopf, 1989; reprinted, Wings, 1994). His writings on the subject have appeared in TV Guide, Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, Modern Maturity, Film Comment, The Hollywood Reporter, Millimeter, The Manchester Guardian, and been reprinted in newspapers and professional journals in the United States, Canada, France, Russia, Britain, Israel, the Netherlands and Japan.

Art Spiegelman's graphic novel, Maus, which portrays the Holocaust with animal characters, won the Pulitzer Prize. He also edited, with his wife Francoise Mouly, RAW, a periodical anthology of many of the best independent American and European cartoonists. His cartoon work is regularly published in The New Yorker.


Note: Readers may contact any Animation World Magazine contributor by sending an e-mail to editor@awn.com.