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News of some more books on animation and cartooning
The Cartoon Club Bookshelf
You might be interested in the recently
published Tom and Jerry - 50 Years of
Cat and Mouse. So might your parents, so
keep an eye on it! Published by Pyramid at
£14.99.
Disney’s Art of Animation - from Mickey
Mouse to Beauty and the Beast is priced
at £25.00 - perhaps the sort of book that a
group needs to buy. Bob Thomas explains the
techniques used by the Disney Studios, and
it’s well illustrated in colour. Publisher -
Hyperion Press.
Animation, in the "see it made" series,
takes you through the whole process of
animation from drawings and special effects
to models and computer images. Publisher:
Collins, at £4.95.
Your Animation Time is Rolf’s latest book,
published by Hodder and Stoughton. You’ll all
want to be animators when you read his
simple step-by-step explanations of all the
animation techniques that he’s learned. lt’s
on the shelves in hardback at £6.95, and in
paperback at £2.99.
Rolf’s Cartoon Club Annual will be in
the shops by the end of the school holidays.
Publisher, Hodder and Stoughton, price
£2.99. lt’ll take you behind the scenes at the
studios where you’ll meet workshoppers and
be able to try out some of the tricks that
they’ve been learning to use.
Now for the ultimate Sound Story, an
electronic storybook which creates sounds
from some of your favourite Warner Brothers
characters. There’s one called Bugs Bunny
in the Big Race - it’s terrific fun for tinies
from the age of 2. Published by Western
Publishing, it costs £9.99.
CARTOONS
ON VIDEO
Just in time for the school holidays, Robin
Hood will be available from 6 July on Disney
Home Video. It costs £13.99 and is feature
length, about 80 minutes.
Disney’s new "Adventure Collection", includes
Goofy’s Olympic Goofs at £8.99. It’s being
released to coincide with the 1992 Olympic
Games in Barcelona - and to celebrate
Goofy’s 60th Birthday!
Best-selling story-writer, Roald Dahl,
was responsible for the book BFG. Brian.
Cosgrove and Mark Hall made the animated
film. It’s out now on video, packed with a
book, at £9.99.
Danger Mouse joins Penfold for a whole
series of stories in the Big Time Video
which costs £9.99. They travel across the
Atlantic to save the Land of the Maple Leaf
and find the Statue of Liberty, and much more.
Victor and Hugo, Bunglers in Crime are
also on the move. They are a pair of totally
incompetent French crooks who spend their
lives falling, blowing themselves up, breaking
out of banks and into prisons, being chased
by aliens and even stealing space ships. And
all the while their pet parrot, Interpoll, keeps
their mobile Headquarters running smoothly,
doubling up as a telephone answering service!
Also on the Thames Video Collection by
Cosgrove Hall at £7.99.
Can you spot
the difference?
We have 10 copies of THE ROLF’S
CARTOON CLUB ANNUAL for the first
10 people whose answers are right
when we pull the envelopes out the
mailbag. List the 8 changes that Rolf
has made to the drawing on the right
and send that list to us at the address
inside the newsletter. You can get a
grown-up to do the writing for you if
you’re not quite old enough to do it all
yourself. Don’t forget to give us your
name and address, and your age - only
7s and under count!
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