I just pre-ordered this book and I'm really looking forward to getting it late next week. Theres a lot of material available from the earlier golden age of animation that stretched up to the end of the forties. Theres also a lot of material available for the modern history of animation that I guess started with Disney films of the late eighties and Roger Rabbit etc.

Theres a dearth of information available from the fifties UPA style and this is a book that really needed to be written. I hope I'm not investing too much hope in how good the book is going to be but I'm really looking forward to getting my copy.

You can visit the Cartoon Modern blog here (link)
or perhaps check out the post on BoingBoing about the book here (link)
or visit Amazon for a hefty discount here (link)