Jeanette Armentrout Thomas, the widow of legendary Disney animator Frank Thomas (one of Walt Disney’s renowned “Nine Old Men”), passed away on Saturday September 29th, from age-related illnesses.

Canadian film pioneer Roman Kroitor, who co-invented the IMAX film system and inspired directors from George Lucas to Stanley Kubrick, has died.

Animator John Coates dies while working on an updated version of the British Christmas classic, “The Snowman.”

Former Disney executive played key role in the industry’s switch to digital cinema.

Ani­ma­tor and direc­tor Ken Walker, whose work for Dis­ney included such mem­o­rable films as “Alice in Won­der­land” and “Fan­ta­sia,” died August 18 at the age of 91.

Emmy-winning puppeteer Jerry Nelson, best known for playing the famous Count von Count on “Sesame Street,” passed away on Thursday, August 23.

New York animation legend Tissa David passed away at age 91.

Joe Kubert, a titan among comic-book artists whose work stretched from the Golden Age of the superhero to the gritty realism of the graphic novel, died on Sunday in Morristown, N.J.

Special effects master and three-time Oscar winner Carlo Rambaldi died Friday at the age of 86.

Dr. Changyou Chen, the father of 11-year-old movie critic and filmmaker Perry Chen, passed away on July 19, following illness from terminal cancer.

Actress Ginny Tyler, who did voice work for many Disney cartoons, the animated sequences in the studio's “Mary Poppins” and for “Davey and Goliath” and “The Gumby Show” among other TV series, died July 13 in Seattle.

Production designer J. Michael Riva suffered a severe stroke and passed away on June 7.

Ray Bradbury, the writer whose expansive flights of fantasy and vividly rendered spacescapes have provided the world with one of the most enduring speculative blueprints for the future, has died.

Dick Beals, the beloved radio and television voice actor best known for the animated characters Gumby and Speedy Alka-Seltzer, has died at 85.

Maurice Sendak, the children’s author and illustrator best known for the 1963 classic “Where the Wild Things Are,” died Tuesday in Danbury, CT, at the age of 83.

Buzz Potamkin, one of animation’s most beloved producers, passed away from pancreatic cancer on Sunday, April 22nd.

AWN is sad to report the passing on April 8 of Iris Beckerman, long-time ASIFA-East Executive Board Member and wife of note animator, historian and author Howard Beckerman.

Television animator Jim Duffy, who worked at Hanna Barbera and spent most of the last two decades supervising Nickelodeon's animated slate at Klasky Csupo, died Friday, March 23, after a long battle with cancer.

Jean Giraud, one of France's leading comics artists, has died in Paris at the age of 73.

Sheldon Moldoff, who drew some of the most recognizable superheroes of comic books’ golden age without receiving recognition in his own right until decades later, died on February 29 near his home in Lauderhill, FL.