Product Description This is the ultimate cartoon fan reference - updated and expanded! "The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons, Third Edition", now thoroughly revised and updated, remains the definitive source on this entertaining subject. This new edition of the "ultimate cartoon fan bible" adds copious amounts of new material, bringing the book up to date and broadening the scope of its coverage. Separated into five major sections - Silent Cartoon Series, Theatrical Sound Cartoon Series, Full-Length Animated Features, Television Cartoon Series, and Animated Television Specials - this comprehensive encyclopedia includes an extensive historical overview of animation, complete information about Academy and Emmy award winners, and a chronology of animation milestones. Coverage of increasingly popular anime has been added and expanded.Entries in this book include: "Cowboy Bebop"; "Dora the Explorer"; "Family Guy"; "Finding Nemo"; "Jonny Quest"; "King of the Hill"; "Pokemon"; "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?"; "The Simpsons"; "South Park"; "SpongeBob SquarePants"; "Toy Story", and more.
Jeff Lenburg needs to do some research July 21, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Encyclopedia of Animated cartoons, 2nd edition, is *full* of errors. One has to wonder where Jeff Lenburg got his information from. One can turn to practically any page and find glaring errors in both plot synopsis, voice actors and character descriptions. Such as Space Ghost being power by a magic belt, Dino-boy being sent back in time do to an explosion that killed his father(!) "Mr.Toad Hall" who is 'wrongly' accused of car thievery,Etc. The list goes on and on. However, it is a great fun for someone who's familiar with cartoons (at all)to read through and mark the errors, which are, in plentiful supply.
MIXED May 16, 2007 A useful listing of US animated cartoons wth dates and credits, and with lists of individual theater cartoons. The original 1981 edition covered theater cartoon series, listing individual films, and was a major reference. This is the (1999) second edition of the 1991 expanded edition which organized the material into general categories - under theater cartoons (silent, sound and feature) and TV (specials and series) There is now much more on made-for-TV cartoons than I want, and even the cover and inside color-plates are largely TV characters. There is no attempt to list individual episodes of the TV series. I have a general aversion to a reference being arranged in alphabetical order. For looking up an item, that's easily covered by the index. For a reading overview, arranging chronologicaly - or by producing studio - would be more instructive.
It amazed me... July 12, 2006 4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The highest tribute that I can give to this book is that I could not find a single animated cartoon from my experience that it did not cover. I felt sure that I knew of a few obscure ones that would not be in here- and I was wrong. Moreover, I found much here that I wasn't familiar with. That absolutely amazed me.
This true encyclopedia is organised into five major sections 1) silent cartoon series, 2)theatrical sound cartoon series, 3)full-length animated features, 4) animated television specials, and 5) television cartoon series. There are numerous black and white illustrations of various characters included with the text, as well as color plates in the middle of the book. I suppose considering the scope of this reference it would have been difficult to illustrate everything. Still, it would have been fantastic to have model sheets for every single entry...
I have found myself getting this book down and browsing through it more times than I want to admit- while cursing the children's television "activists" that have robbed generations of the joy of experiencing many of these classics and near classics (and some of the classically bad.)
Great! July 28, 2004 0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of the best books. Except one thing: mistakes and lies. Ok, what is with the mistakes in the voice-actor list? I mean: April Winchell as Sebastin the Crab? Tress Macnille as LanchPaud? Did two people do the voice of Velma? Of course not, there are some HUGE lies. But at least it was a good book. but it, just avoid the lies.
A longtime prelude to bcdb.com June 22, 2004 If you're in search of information regarding a certain cartoon,you'll find it in this book. This book was first released in 1981,long before the debut of the Internet and The Big Cartoon Database,aka bcdb.com. This book only lists motion picture cartoons. It does not list comicstrips. Theatrical cartoons,Saturday morning television cartoons,animated features,you'll find them all.
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