Gigi Hu reviews Asia's premiere animation festival, the
7th Hiroshima International Animation Festival, held August 20-24, 1998.

DreamWorks Pictures and PDI bring this much-awaited CG wonder to screens this month. Jerry Beck reviews what is hoped to be another animated blockbuster.

Keith Bradbury describes the Tenth Annual Conference of the
Society for Animation Studies, which was held at Chapman University from
August 12-16, 1998.

Want to make professional-looking banners for the Web that are complete with animations? Ged Bauer puts this new banner-creating software, MicroSites, to the test.

Moved by the plight of children in war torn countries, student film maker Alina Chau, Hiu Fan made this remarkable film as a gift for the United Nations.

Pat Raine Webb reviews Jayne Pilling's new book, A Reader in Animation Studies, which publishes 21 scholarly Society for Animation Studies essays, for the first time.

Jerry Beck reviews a very special Nickelodeon Oh Yeah!
Cartoons! short, Max & His Special Problem by Dave Wasson.
Includes a Quicktime movie.

Joseph K. Bevilacqua highlights what's new in animation for the U.S. 1998/99 television season, from CBS to Cartoon Network.

Edmundo Barreiros relays the events of Brazil's Anima Mundi, possibly the world's most energetic and enthusiastic festival.

Russell Bekins details the adaptation of Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese, from graphic novel to animated films and series.