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ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive

The Animation Archive is a project of International Animated Film Society: ASIFA-Hollywood, a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization. We are building a museum, library and digital archive for the benefit of animation professionals, cartoonists, designers, students and the general public. Our database of images, biographic info and films contains thousands of entries- animated cartoons, artwork, and filmographies. Contributions and volunteers are needed to make the dream a reality.

Meta: Some NewsDecember 27 2008

I've decided that we will publish the complete ZIM Correspondence School in Cartooning, Comic Art & Caricature in two editions... a deluxe two volume hardback set at 8 1/2 x 11 inches, and a perfect bound paperback edition in four volumes at 6 x 9. I printed out a proof of the first half of the set tonight, and it looks wonderful! The entire course spans over 700 pages with nearly 1000 illustrations by ZIM. Wow!

We are also working on creating special content for this web for ASIFA-Hollywood members only. I plan to post a new cartoon Quicktime for members every week, and house a lot of the high bandwidth back dated content there. (The home page of the Animation Archive site will remain exactly as it is- accessible to all.) If you have any ideas for members-only features, let me know in the comments.

And as I always say... If you aren't a member of ASIFA-Hollywood yet, you should be. ASIFA-Hollywood members are eligible to participate in Annie Award voting (which means plenty of free screenings and "for your consideration" DVDs.) Ask any ASIFA-Hollywood member... the dues are a bargain.

Have a Happy New Year!

Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive
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Pinups: John Held Jr.December 23 2008

This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see reason number 9 on our The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for links to more great pinup art.

Today, Archive volunteer, Gary Francis brought in a couple of Playboys from the late 60s to add to our collection of digitized images by Sokol, Dedini, Interlandi, Sneyd and Vargas. We will be posting more by these great artists soon, but I particularly wanted to bring this great feature on John Held Jr. to your attention.

John Held Jr was bor

Illustration: EInar Norelius' Bland Tomtar Och TrollDecember 18 2008

This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for more jaw dropping images from classic illustrated books.



A few weeks ago, we featured the work of John Bauer from the Swedish Christmas annual, Bland Tomtar Och Troll. After Bauer's premature death in a shipwreck, Gustaf Tenggren took over the series. A few years later, Tenggren relocated to America and the job was passed on to Einar Norelius.

I first heard of Norelius on P-E Fronning's blog, Martin Klasch. After seeing the beautiful illustrations from Jim, Jock and Jumbo that Fronning posted to his Flickr page, I went searching fo

Illustration: Disney Christmas CardsDecember 16 2008

This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see reason number 3 on our The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for links to more great posts about 50s children's book illustrators.

Not a creature was stirring... except Mickey Mouse!

The weather is turning snappy, and the holiday cards are beginning to arrive at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, so the Christmas holiday must be close on the horizon. It's time again to share this batch of wonderful 1950s Christmas cards from the Disney studio collected by Disney animator, Claire Weeks from 1938 through the mid-1950s. The designs on these cards are so

Feedback: Zim CourseDecember 13 2008

For the past several months, I have been carefully digitizing the Zim Course in Cartooning, Comic Art and Caricature. This is the granddaddy of all cartooning correspondence courses. If you aren't familiar with it, see our posting on the subject from last May.


The course consists of 20 books of 32 pages each. There are hundreds and hundreds of cartoons and illustrations, along with precious nuggets of homespun philosophy from the father of modern caricature, Eugene "Zim" Zimmerman. The course was available directly from Zim himself by mail, beginning in 1914. It's unclear how many people took the course over the next decade or so, but complete copies of this course are extremely rare. ASIFA-Hollywood was fortunate enough to be allowed to digitize Ralph Bakshi's personal copy.