Happy Birthday June!

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Director, Stephen Worth
and ASIFA-Hollywood President, Antran Manoogian
visit with June Foray at the 2008 Annie Awards after party
June Foray is the heart and soul of our organization. All of us at ASIFA-Hollywood. wish her a Happy Birthday. Here's wishing every day is just like your birthday, June!

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Comic-Con: Zim Cartooning Course Debuts

THE ZIM CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL OF CARTOONING, COMIC ART AND CARICATURE


For the first time in nearly a century, Eugene "Zim" Zimmerman's legendary 1914 cartooning course is available again in a deluxe two-volume edition published by the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 1,000 B&W illustrations and 22 hand-tipped color plates, this landmark course deserves a place on every cartoonist's bookshelf.

Edited by Stephen Worth and with a foreword by Ralph Bakshi, these books cover a broad range of subjects, from practical advice for aspiring artists to philosophical musings on what it means to be a cartoonist. Zim's infectious sense of humor and vividly observed caricatures leap off the page. This drawing course may just be the keystone document of American cartooning.

These two volumes will be available beginning July 23rd at ASIFA-Hollywood's booth at the San Diego Comic-Con. (Booth #5334: To the right of the main entrance, against the lobby side wall.) Quantities are very limited. Copies will also be available for sale on ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive website soon after. Also available is a series of high quality glicee fine art prints of some of Zim's finest cartoons produced by imagekind, a CafePress company.

The books are available to the general public for a donation to the ASIFA-Hollywood of $125 per volume. ASIFA-Hollywood members may receive the books for a donation of $100 per volume. (Non-members: Buy both books and join ASIFA-Hollywood and take the discount right away. This means that ASIFA-Hollywood membership is just an additional $25!) Proceeds from the sale of these books go to support the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. ASIFA-Hollywood is a 501(c)(3) California non-profit organization, so your contribution may be tax deductible. (See your tax accountant for details.)

ABOUT EUGENE ZIMMERMAN (1862-1935)
ZIM was a familiar a name to people in the early years of the 20th century; but today, he is largely forgotten. He was a pioneer of the art of caricature with over 40,000 illustrations published in his lifetime. ZIM was a mainstay of the magazines Puck and Judge, lampooning politicians of all parties and poking fun at the ethnic roots of America's melting pot. After his retirement, he created a correspondence school in cartooning that educated many fledgling artists who went on to follow his lead.

For more information on Eugene "Zim" Zimmerman and his cartooning course, see...
http://www.animationarchive.org/labels/zim.html

HELP US SPREAD THE WORD
An extensive electronic press kit is available upon request to members of the press and bloggers interested in spotlighting the books on their sites. Email sworth@animationarchive.org for a complimentary copy.
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Annie Awards Voting

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You may then submit your email address and your information will be sent to you.

If you have recently changed your email address, please call 1-866-543-8750 to retrieve your log-in information, and then please email membership@asifa-hollywood.org to permanently update your contact information.

Please note that only members who were current as of November 30, 2008 are eligible to vote on the 36th Annual Annie Awards. If your membership expired before that date, or if you joined ASIFA-Hollywood after that date, you are not eligible to vote this year.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

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Archive: Over One Million Served

Yesterday, our hit logs registered our one millionth unique visit to the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. By next week, our page view count will reach 2.5 million articles served. We started counting traffic on November 11th, 2005, and our traffic more than doubled in our second year. It's poised to do so again this coming year.

FEEDBACK TIME!

I'm going to be working on preparing our upcoming exhibit on Grim Natwick, and that will keep me away from the computer for the next week. In the meantime, please email me at sworth@animationarchive.org and...

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your interests

Post a link to your work and/or website

Pick your favorite Animation Archive post from the past two years

Tell us how the Animation Archive has helped or inspired you

Let us know if you have any suggestions

...I'll post some of your comments on the Archive Blog so everyone can see them.

Thanks
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive
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