Animation World Magazine, Issue 2.2, May 1997
Writers' Bios - May 1997
Giannalberto Bendazzi, a frequent contributor to Animation World Magazine, is a Milan-based film historian and critic whose own history of animation, Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation, was published in the US by Indiana University Press and in the UK by John Libbey. His other books on animation include Topoline e poi (1978), Due voite l'oceana (1983) and Il movimento creato (1993, with Guido Michelone).
Karl Cohen is president of ASIFA-San Francisco. His first book, Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators, will be published later this year. He also teaches animation history at San Francisco State University.
Harvey Deneroff is is Editor and Publisher of The Animation Report, an
industry newsletter. He is currently writing The Art of Anastasia, to
be published this fall by Harper Collins.
Marcy Gardner currently works in the Children's Programming Department at WGBH in Boston, where she answers Arthur's fanmail and is compiling a library of kid's ideas, art, films/videos, and projects for the new Zoom show. Previously, she worked on Sesame Street.
Gigi Hu is now a Ph.D. student based at the University of Hong Kong, Department of Comparative Literature. Prior to this, she was a media and cultural studies lecturer at Temasek Polytechnic, School of Design, Singapore. Last year, with Lillian Soon, she organized Singapore's Animation Fiesta.
Wendy Jackson is Associate Editor of Animation World Magazine.
Susan Ohmer, Ph.D. teaches courses on new technologies in the Graduate Media Studies Program of the New School for Social Research in New York City.
John Parazette-Tillar has a background in multimedia graphic design. He studied at the American Film Institute and Cal State Long Beach. He has been known to dream digitally, and can make any pixel "Twist and Shout!" When not joined at the hip to his workstations, he can be found hangin' at the park with his understanding wife, Kate, and his unusually cool son, Zachary.
Fred Patten has written on anime for fan and professional magazines since the late 1970s. He currently writes a regular anime column for Animation Magazine.
Gunnar Strøm is Associate Professor at Volda College in Norway, where he is head of the animation department. He has published a number of books on animation and music videos. He is president of ASIFA Norway, and a board member and former secretary general of ASIFA International.
Bonita Versh is a director for Klasky Csupo Commercials, and an active supporter of Women in Animation, a non-profit organization.
Gene Walz is head of the film program at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. He is currently finishing a biography on character designer Charlie Thorson and is now editing a book called Great Canadian Films.
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