Product Description: Ask any masked cartoon villains and they'll give you an earful about those "meddling kids" and their silly dog. No doubt they're whining about Scooby-Doo, America's most endearing crime-fighting Great Dane. In 1969, Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Velma, and Daphne drove into the Saturday-morning lineup in a funky colored van, aptly dubbed "the Mystery Machine...read more

It's amazing how many comics fans who grew up admiring Spider-Man, Batman and Nick Fury still retain warm places in our hearts for Casper the Friendly Ghost. Now Dark Horse is delighted to participate in the revival of Casper who remains among the most beloved of cartoon and comic book icons. Casper the Friendly Ghost made his first appearance as a star of Paramount's Famous Cartoons in 1947 and entered the comics in 1949. But after five issues, publisher St. John's gave up the title. That's when Harvey Comics stepped in, and where this book begins. Harvey breathed life into Casper, and from the very first issue, the cover designs, stories and artwork - drawn by the same animators who worked on the cartoons - were a cut above.

A companion volume to the hilarious upcoming DreamWorks Animation film Bee Movie presents more than three hundred full-color images from the film, including pastels, digital paintings, sketches, and clay models, along with quotes from the artists, production designers, producers, and Jerry Seinfeld. (A DreamWorks Animation film, directed by Steve Hickner & Simon J. Smith, releasing November 2007, with voices by Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, John Goodman, & Chris Rock)

More than five hundred illustrations, images, drawings, and sketches offer a colorful overview of all thirty-one of Nickelodeon's innovative cartoons, with a collection of unique cells, storyboards, early prototypes, and anecdotes from the creators of every show. 25,000 first printing.

Celebrates every move the Pink Panther has ever made over the past forty years, from the original Pink Panther movie starring Peter Sellers and the long-running animated series to the new movie releasing in theaters in February starring Steve Martin, Beyonce Knowles, and Kevin Kline.

''Includes: every animated feature released in the United States since 1926; reviews and background information for over 300 films; plot synopses, running times, 4-star ratings, consumer tips, and MPAA ratings.'--Cover.'--From source other than the Library of Congress

Covers the history of animation throughout the world, focusing heavily on the North American creative efforts of Disney, Warner and the new, small production CGI houses.

Gathered from the Warner Bros. archives and featuring all the favorite Looney Tunes characters, a visual history of the popular animated classics includes film stills, sketches, storyboards, and more.

An entertaining collection celebrating the work of cutting-edge animation filmmakers features frame grabs, production stills, original artwork, behind-the-scenes photographs, and interviews from twenty-five years of teh Spike & Mike Festival of Animation, with works by Nick Park and Peter Lord of Aardman, John Lasseter, Craig McCracken, Mike Judge, and others.