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Update:
Winsor McCay – His Life and Art, my biography of the innovative pioneer of comic strips and animated films, has been revised twice since Abbeville Press first published it in 1987. In the 2005 Harry N. Abrams edition and, again, in the current 2018 CRC Press/A Focal Press Book edition, I updated and expanded the text to include new information about McCay that had come to my attention in the last three decades.
I am particularly pleased about one informational addition in the new CRC/Focal Press edition, concerning a gentleman I first described, in 1987, as merely “a Mr. Hunt of the [New York] Herald color department.” His name had come to my attention in the margin of an original Little Nemo in Slumberland comic strip board, on which Winsor McCay penciled an instructional message in non-photographing blue pencil:
Mr. Hunt, • Grim Natwick with his "kid assistant", PART FOUR: GRIM’S STUDIO GAG DRAWINGS AND CARICATURES Like most animators, Grim Natwick had a unique sense of humor. He was famous for his limericks, scribbled in on the margins of his animation drawings. Here are a couple of doozies bygd Grim… I’ve broken my friendship with Babbitt "It’s true!" said the painter to the prude A nail sitting Hindoo said "I Grim prized his studio gag drawings above all the others in his collection. He described how they came to • The animator and director Richard Williams died on Friday at his home in Bristol, U.K, after a battle with cancer. He was 86. His passing has prompted a torrent of tributes to his work in all its aspects: his skill as a draftsman, his innovation of the language of animation, his generosity as a mentor, his sheer longevity. As Cartoon Brew editor-in-chief Amid Amidi wrote in his reminiscences about Williams, it’s hard to know where to begin writing about such a varied, distinguished career. Richard Edmund Williams was born in Toronto on March 19, 1933. As a child, he was fascinated by Disney’s productions: in a 2016 interview at the Museum of Modern Art, he recalled that his mother — an illustrator who had turned down a job at Disney — once told him, “You saw Snow White when you were five, and you were never the same.” Aged 15, he ran off to California to discover the stu
This is a snow forest. All the trees and foliage are snow. Plenty of purple and blue tones. The only bright color will be in the cost
Chuck Jones (Iwerks/1933)
Because of his slovenly habit
Of eating out loud
And I’ve never been proud
Of his nibbling bones like a rabbit!
"I sketch all my ladies in the nude
A dress is OK
For a window display
But on my girls, it wouldn’t improve."
Have perched here and gazed at the sky
Till I’ve punctured my hide
Fillagreed my back side
I’m damned if I’ve ever known why!"Richard Williams (1933-2019), A Director, Animator, And Educator Who Pushed The Art Of Animation Forward