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Fantastic models; I buy this just for the pictures........2006-05-27
I bought this because I enjoyed the 2005 calendar so much. I bought the 2006 calendar just for the pictures, and I am well pleased. Especially amazing is the the model of The Angel Gabriel for the week of March 20th. WOW!
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- Next Best Thing to Owning the Movies!
- When will there be a new edition of this wonderful book?
- Great Disney Resource
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- Excellent but not with every characters
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Customer Reviews:
Next Best Thing to Owning the Movies!.......2007-09-11
I'll start this review by saying that, in fact, I haven't read THIS book, but I own Grant's older book from the '80's of the same title (which I bought from a used book seller for $3!), and I assume that this is the same material, but with some new stuff added. I plan to buy this newer book, because I can't wait to see this author's views on the subsequent movies that came out.
John Grant's description of the Disney movies and cartoons is amazingly detailed, and he profiles every character, from Mickey Mouse to obscure supporting characters that most people have forgotten about. While reading the entries, I remembered several movies and cartoons that I had seen as a kid, and forgotten about. It made me want to run out and buy all the old movies on DVD, so I could watch them again and relive this simpler time!
While Grant is definitely a Disney fan, he does look at the movies with a critical eye, and is willing to admit some of the shortcomings they had, including some of the racism that appeared in the earlier films (although I think he was a little too soft on this, which could be seen as insensitive to many people). He also has this charming, very British style of writing, that's addictive to read. Great escapist fun for any Disney fan!
When will there be a new edition of this wonderful book?.......2005-10-30
This is almost certainly the best book on Disney animation ever published - it is difficult to think of superlatives that other reviewers haven't already (quite rightly) used in their praise of it. (To the reviewer who complained about the omission of Eega Beeva: Eega Beeva is a character in the comics, not the animated movies.) Astonishingly comprehensive, beautifully illustrated, and written with the kind of stylish wit that makes the mere act of reading the text a joy in itself, the Encyclopedia deserves all the praise that has been heaped on it.
I have only one complaint. This is the third edition, and was published in 1998. Why oh why has there been no subsequent edition? What has gotten into Disney's corporate head that they have not begged Mr. Grant, well known for his extensive writings elsewhere, to bring the story of Disney animation up to date? Such a book is desperately needed!
Great Disney Resource.......2003-02-22
This is a definite must-have for any Disney fan. The book is divided into three basic sections: Characters in shorts, characters in television shows, and characters in features. Each category has a mention of every Disney character created until 1997 including interesting articles about them. This is also a great place to find information on lesser-known or forgotten Disney characters such as Spike the bee from a number of Donald Duck cartoons and Little Hans, a star of his own wartime propaganda film. Combine this with hundreds of pictures from the films and you have a book that is sure to be a favorite of any Disney fan.
No Disney fan should be without it!.......2002-12-17
First, while the title of this book is accurate, it is also misleading. This is no fluffy, flimsy book containing some fun descriptions of Disney characters from the latest popular films. This is an intense, in-depth look at EVERY Disney animated character since Walt began his career. The book is divided into two parts, "Shorts" and "Feature Films". The shorts have the usual gang, Donald, Mickey, Goofy, Pluto, and so on. After each characters bio is a list of every Disney short they've appeared in. Don't be worried or fooled by by this truly encyclopedic book - it is not a boring A to Z book. Color photos pop off of every page, including some from rarely seen Disney shorts. The feature films section not only includes detailed character bios, but plot summaries and "making of" details, cast and crew credits, and more. You buy this book, you will have a list of EVERY Disney short ever made (including the early "Alice" shorts and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit), every feature film in chronological order, and enough information about each one to be the champ of any Disney trivia game!
Excellent but not with every characters.......2000-11-02
Excellent Disney historic resource. If you're a Disney fan you will enjoy it, unless you're locking for a line about Eega Beeva, because you won't find any- a pity. Daniel
Book Description
Inside this fun and comprehensive book, you'll find all the information you ever wanted to know about your favorite Disney animated characters. Did you know that O'Malley, the alley cat from The Aristocats, is actually named Abraham DeLacey Giuseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley or that Mickey Mouse has had many different careers, including firefighter, astronaut, detective, and truck driver? Don't be left in the dark-get the inside scoop on Aladdin, Goofy, Anastasia and Drizella, Peter Pan, and many more. Filled with fun facts, cool trivia, and hilarious quotes from the characters, this junior encyclopedia is fun for the whole family!
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Disney-holic.......2007-01-11
I love the fact this book has all the characters. The descriptions are short and very informative. Great for children and adults who are craaaaazy about anything Disney.
My Daughter Loves This Book!!!.......2006-01-20
My 4 year old daughter loves Disney. We purchased this book for her on one of our trips to Walt Disney World. She will sit for hours just flipping through and naming off all of the characters. The pictures are large, colorful, and each character gets a full page! As one reveiwer said earlier there are better Disney encyclopedias out there but this one is perfect for kids. There is a reason this book is titled "Junior". It is made for children!
Why accept second best?.......2005-11-03
There's nothing wrong with this book except that there's a far better and very much bigger and more comprehensive one available - also published by Disney: The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters, by John Grant. There you'll find far more information at every level, and the text is perfectly well suited to kids as well as adults. The only advantage this newer book has is that it's more up-to-date, containing info on the Pixar characters as well (the most recent edition of the Grant book is 1998), but hopefully Disney will get around soon to issuing a new version of the "senior" text. In every other respect, why ask your kids to accept second best?
Fun, informative and beautiful.......2005-09-02
I bought this Encyclopedia of Animated Characters after flipping through it in a store and laughing at some of the amusing entries. Each page includes really nice pictures of the animated characters and information about the characters and their co-stars, including lots of fun and interesting trivia. I thought I knew a lot of Disney trivia, but I learned so much more while enjoying the book. It's suitable for children, and there's also enough interesting information in there for adults to enjoy too.
Book Description
From Jeff Lenburg's obsessive fascination with the subject comes this ultimate guide to cartoons. More than 2,200 cartoon entries encompass all aspects of this twentieth-century cultural phenomenon: creators, directors, production studios, voice talent, episode titles, and dates of release. With a forward by June Foray (the voice behind Granny and Rocky the Squirrel), more than 150 illustrations, and a nutshell history of American animation, this home reference details every cartoon and every cartoon character ever created.
Customer Reviews:
MIXED.......2007-05-16
A useful listing of US animated cartoons wth dates and credits, and with lists of individual theater cartoons.
The original 1981 edition covered theater cartoon series, listing individual films, and was a major reference.
This is the (1999) second edition of the 1991 expanded edition which organized the material into general categories - under theater cartoons (silent, sound and feature) and TV (specials and series) There is now much more on made-for-TV cartoons than I want, and even the cover and inside color-plates are largely TV characters. There is no attempt to list individual episodes of the TV series.
I have a general aversion to a reference being arranged in alphabetical order. For looking up an item, that's easily covered by the index. For a reading overview, arranging chronologicaly - or by producing studio - would be more instructive.
It amazed me..........2006-07-12
The highest tribute that I can give to this book is that I could not find a single animated cartoon from my experience that it did not cover. I felt sure that I knew of a few obscure ones that would not be in here- and I was wrong. Moreover, I found much here that I wasn't familiar with. That absolutely amazed me.
This true encyclopedia is organised into five major sections 1) silent cartoon series, 2)theatrical sound cartoon series, 3)full-length animated features, 4) animated television specials, and 5) television cartoon series. There are numerous black and white illustrations of various characters included with the text, as well as color plates in the middle of the book. I suppose considering the scope of this reference it would have been difficult to illustrate everything. Still, it would have been fantastic to have model sheets for every single entry...
I have found myself getting this book down and browsing through it more times than I want to admit- while cursing the children's television "activists" that have robbed generations of the joy of experiencing many of these classics and near classics (and some of the classically bad.)
Great!.......2004-07-29
This is one of the best books. Except one thing: mistakes and lies. Ok, what is with the mistakes in the voice-actor list? I mean: April Winchell as Sebastin the Crab? Tress Macnille as LanchPaud? Did two people do the voice of Velma? Of course not, there are some HUGE lies. But at least it was a good book. but it, just avoid the lies.
A longtime prelude to bcdb.com.......2004-06-22
If you're in search of information regarding a certain cartoon,you'll find it in this book. This book was first released in 1981,long before the debut of the Internet and The Big Cartoon Database,aka bcdb.com. This book only lists motion picture cartoons. It does not list comicstrips. Theatrical cartoons,Saturday morning television cartoons,animated features,you'll find them all.
An excellent (if somewhat flawed) resource.......2004-01-06
Less of a book than a listing, The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons has an exhaustive listing of cartoons from the 'teens up until about 1997. Best of all are the titles for theatrical shorts and detailed listings of Emmy and Oscar nominees/winners. If you need (or want) to look up something about a cartoon, this is probably the best place to look.
However, this book is *not* perfect. Besides being some 6 years out of date, the book doesn't track direct-to-video movies and seems to neglect a few imported cartoons that had hit airwaves before 1997. Also, many '80s cartoons (particularly those from the great toy-license revolution) have incorrect series synopses, voice credits, and even entries (such as the listings for G.I. Joe). This book is invaluable, yes, but it is sorely in need of a third edition (and possibly a co-author who can research obscure and/or lesser regarded cartoons). Keep this in mind before purchasing the second edition.
Product Description
This comprehensive reference to TV cartoon shows covers some 75 years. In the decade or so since the first edition, the industry has grown and expanded to previously unimagined heights, thanks in great part to the upsurge of cable TV services catering to animation fans. In the ten-year period from 1993 through 2003, nearly 450 new cartoon series have premiered in the U.S. Alphabetically arranged by title, the book discusses each cartoon show in detail, providing full production credits and offering commentary on such elements as development, characters, style, and the shows significance in the overall scheme of television animation. The encyclopedia is published as a set of two volumes. Volume 1 includes the preface, introduction, and entries from A through L. Volume 2 includes entries from M through Z, the bibliography, and index. Replacement volumes can be obtained individually under ISBN 0-7864-2255-6 (for Volume 1) and ISBN 0-7864-2256-4 (for Volume 2).
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Updated -- with NO corrections???.......2007-07-22
This new version of Erickson's 1995 tome rates an illustrated cover (the original had the generic McFarland "denim-ish" look) and, due to the proliferation of animated series of all types since 1993, a division into two volumes, covering over 1000 pages in all. Unfortunately, a number of the mistakes and oversights of the first edition are still present. A couple of the old entries have been updated, but only if a new version of the series has been produced (e.g., the entry for Superman now includes the 90s "Superman: the Animated Series") or if new information about a previously obscure project has come to light. (The lack of corrections may have something to do with the fact that McFarland is a reference publisher; as a result, many of the copies that were sold have been resting peacefully on college library shelves rather than circulating amongst animation fans.) The new entries are well-written, and most of them seem accurate, but Erickson seems less willing to pass judgment on the merits of the series of interest. "Superman: the Animated Series" was easily as ambitious an undertaking as the earlier "Batman" series, yet, while Erickson devotes a lot of space to analyzing what made the latter series so good and so groundbreaking, he contents himself with a bald summary of factual particulars when it comes to the former. I didn't always agree with what Erickson had to say about a series, but it was most entertaining to read through his reasoning. I still think quite highly of Erickson's work and appreciate the effort he put into this revamping, but this new edition falls a little short of what it could have been had the necessary changes been made.
Good book, but get the two volume set........2007-02-28
I received the book today, and was quite impressed with it.
Wish I had the money to buy the two volume set. Looks like that being the next purchase.
I want to fix up a misconception about one of the entries, "Arthur, and the Square Knights of the Round Table".
In this book (and in the book referenced "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons" by Jeff Lenburg) claimed that the show was British.
Sadly, it is as British as a Kangaroo. The show was made in Australia, featuring a cast of actors who were originally from radio, and the cast was able to mimic accents with frightening accuracy (the cast which included John Meillon (who played Walter Reilly in Crocodile Dundee)and John Ewart (who appeared in the feature film, Newsfront))
Hopefully, this will be corrected in a future edition.
Average customer rating:
- The best book of its kind
- A very good but terribly outdated book.
- Perfect for Generation X-ers
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Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 1993
Hal Erickson
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In 1949 the first made-for-television cartoon series debuted on a major network. Tele-Comics embraced the popular cliffhanger serial genre, using nonmoving comic strip panels and a handful of radio actors to produce a show at a fraction of the cost accrued by a live show. Despite the success of Tele-Comics and a few other such shows, television cartoons languished until 1954 when Walt Disney produced Disneyland. From such pioneers as Tele-Comics and Crusader Rabbit to modern fare such as X-Men and Beavis and Butthead, this is the first reference book to detail animated cartoons made exclusively for television from 1949 through 1993. Each entry includes the show's title, network, studios and full production information when available. An essay blending plot description, critical commentary, and background information is also provided for each cartoon. A discussion of the voice artist concludes the work.
Customer Reviews:
The best book of its kind.......2003-03-07
This is one of those spectacular books that comes along every few years. It's complete, well-written, doesn't take itself too seriously (after all, it IS about cartoons!), & offers an expert's personal point of view (the author's) in addition to presenting all the factual details. My only complaint is that I wish the author had included entries for movie cartoon characters as well. Some of the cartoon characters included here originated in the movies (for example, Popeye, Woody Woodpecker), but are included here for various reasons that the author explains. Other movie characters, such as my personal favorite (Betty Boop) are omitted because the don't meet the criterion for inclusion. Mr. Erickson, please follow-up on this great book by writing one about the movie cartoon characters that are omitted here!
A very good but terribly outdated book........1999-02-07
It's a very good book. But if you want a book with all of today's cartoons you wouldn't find many here. A must-read if you have lived under a rock since 12/31/93(the book's cuttoff date).
Perfect for Generation X-ers.......1998-11-25
I am 25 years old and I loved being a kid. I remember waking up at 6:00 on Saturday morning and leaving the TV set at noon. This book is a great release for everyone who remembers watching fun shows as a kid. The book is basically an encyclopedia of all alphabetized cartoons from 1949- 1993. The book gives precise times, character names, summaries, and even name of the actual voices.The book brings you to the world of Scooby, Fred & Barney, Yogi, Lion-O, He-man, & Optimus Prime. This book is definitely a nostalgic journey to your youth. Buy it!
Average customer rating:
- Good Resource
- The only reference you'll ever need
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The encyclopedia of animated cartoon series
Jeff Lenburg
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Good Resource.......2001-12-29
This tome is quite worthy for any cartoon fan, the information seems well researched there are a few time where the actors and characters for a show are mismatched and not always are all characters listed.
The only reference you'll ever need.......2000-12-30
Do you ever watch those cable networks like CARTOON NETWORK, or TOON DISNEY? Jeff Lenburg's THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANIMATED CARTOONS will answer all of your nagging questions, from particular voice actors to episode titles. For a long time I suspected that Ted Knight, from MARY TYLER MOORE was the narator on SUPERFRIENDS. Now I Know! It's a must have book for video collector's as well. I collect superhero videos, and now I can tell the 4 different SPIDERMAN shows apart. The subdivided text includes: Series, Features, Shorts and Specials...
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A comprehensive viewer's guide with plot outlines and artwork for Jonny Quest, Birdman & The Galaxy Trio, The Fantastic Four, Superfriends, and Batman . . . The Animated Series.
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