More Books out on the market right now. By now you have heard on this blog about the cool new books by Jean Ann Wright- ANIMATION WRITING, and Martha Sigal`s memoir LIVING LIFE BETWEEN THE LINES. If you have a desire for more literary material about our favorite subject -Animation, here are some other titles bopping around:

WALTS PEOPLE by Didier Ghez, Xlibris.com Didier assembled a number of interviewers including Mike Marrier and Jim Korkis who had done interviews with a number of past Disney greats including MILT KAHL, DAVE HAND, MARC DAVIS, BILL TYTLA, JOHN HENCH and JOYCE CARLSON. A must for folks seriously interested in the House of Mouse!

STRAY DOG OF ANIME The Films of Mamoru Oshii by Brian Ruh, Palgrave/MacMillan press. The first comprehensive biography in English of the great Japanese director/writer./producer who`s films include GHOST IN THE SHELL, THE PATLABOR series, JIN ROH and BLOOD OF THE LAST VAMPIRE.

My spies have brought in news that film director Richard Fleischer will soon be completing a biography of his father Max Fleischer, and Neal Gabler author of AN EMPIRE OF THEIR OWN, is finishing a new bio of Walt Disney. Oh, and . . . Tom Sito (uh . . . me) still finishing his/my book on the history of the animation unions from silents to CGI.

All these labels are available on Amazon.com or wherever you order books.

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