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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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What a Great Idea! How Some Tip-Top Toons Were Born | |
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The Bunny Did It, After All: Roger Rabbit Ignites the Toon Boom | |
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A Little Mermaid Is Spawned in Burbank | |
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The Animated Sitcom Is Reborn: Meet The Simpsons | |
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An Angry Chihuahua and a Retarded Cat: Ren & Stimpy Get Their Start in the Biz | |
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Tim Burton Shares His Nightmare With the World | |
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Giving His Creation Life ... Down in Dexter's Laboratory | |
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Whooping Some Cartoon Ass, Powerpuff Style | |
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Congratulations, Mrs. Lion! It's a Boy: The Birth of The Lion King | |
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Pretty as a Pixel: Toy Story Becomes the First CGI Toon Feature | |
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Mr. Hankey Goes to Hollywood: How South Park Got Started | |
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Middle-Aged White Guys Make It to King of the Hill | |
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Now That's an Ugly Baby: Shrek Happens | |
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Dawn of a New Ice Age | |
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Putting It Together: How Four Humongous Cartoon Hits Were Developed | |
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He's Mean and He's Green: Bringing Shrek to the Screen | |
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Just Your Typical Yellow Cartoon Family: Turing The Simpsons Shorts into the Most Popular Animated Series in TV History | |
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A Fish Tale That Changed Everything: How a Tadpole Grew into The Little Mermaid and Woke Up Disney Feature Animation | |
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Something Silly Is Afin: Putting SpongeBob SquarePants Together | |
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Auteur! Auteur! Those Creative Geniuses Who Can Do It All | |
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Let's Give 'Em Boogers and Farts: John Kricfalusi Finds a Home for Ren & Stimpy | |
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From Russia, With Glove: Genndy Tartakovsky's Dexter's Lab Explodes | |
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Craig McCracken's Mighty Mites: The Powerpuff Girls | |
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You Don't Know Jack: Genndy's Stylish Samurai Cuts Loose | |
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He Said "Size" ... Huh Huh Huh: Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head Rock On | |
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And Then I Wrote ... How Screenwriters and Story Artists Get Toons Moving | |
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Spooning With Toons: Penning The Tick for the Tube | |
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The Vis Dev of Beau, Bea, and Al: Writing Some Animated Disney Classics-with Pictures | |
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Chairwoman of the Boards: Getting the Story of The Lion King Up and Running | |
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To Infinitives and Beyond: Scripting Pixar's Toy Story and Toy Story 2 | |
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Ain't That a Pretty Picture: Creating the Stunning Visuals of TV and Film Cartoons | |
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Standing Out in the Background: The Brilliant Art Direction of Samurai Jack | |
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Turning the Lights Down on the Dark Knight: Painter Eric Radomski Cloaks Batman in Shadows | |
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Painting with the Colors of the Wind: Giaimo's Distinctive Designs for Pocahontas | |
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Rhapsody in Aqua, Cobalt, and Periwinkle: Susan Goldberg's Fantasia/2000 Art Direction | |
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Amazing Feats of Clay: Mr. Melton's Marvelous Maquettes | |
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But What I Really Wanna Do Is ... The All-Consuming Task of Directing Toons | |
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Directing a Film That Nobody Wanted to Work On: The Lion King | |
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It's All in the Timing: Directing Toons for Cartoon Network | |
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Lights ... Camera ... Simulation: Helming the Computer-Generated Monsters, Inc | |
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Sub-Zero Hero at the Helm: Directing Blue Sky's Surprise Hit Ice Age | |
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That Exotic, Rare Bird - the Animator: Using Pencils and Pixels to Give Their Creations Life | |
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Deja's View: Animating Disney's Modern Heroes and Villains | |
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Ya Gotta Have Courage: Dilworth's Cowardly Dog Leaps into Action | |
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Sheer Genie-us: Eric Goldberg Conjures Up Aladdin's Kinetic Comic Centerpiece | |
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Big-Shot Toon Producer: The Nuts and Bolts (and Falling Anvils) of Producing Animation | |
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The Mother of All Simpsons: Margot Pipkin, Animation Producer | |
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Talking Babies Are Born: Producing Nickelodeon's Rugrats | |
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Who P-P-P-Produced Roger Rabbit? | |
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Who Said That?!: The Art of Giving Voice to Cartoon Characters | |
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June's Foray to Fame: The Queen of Ail Voice Artists | |
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Something Wicked This Way Slimes: The Malevolent Tones of Ursula | |
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Way Out West: A Versatile Voice Artist Named Billy | |
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Chillin' With Sid: John Leguizamo's Lovable Ice Age Sloth | |
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Missed It By That Much: The Part Almost Went To ... | |
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Makin' Toons Croon: Those Musical Marvels Who Compose the Merry Melodies | |
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The Songs Always Come First: Alan Menken and Partners Raise the Musical Bar | |
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Nothing Personal, It's Just Business: A Peek Behind the Glamorous Facade of the Toon Trade | |
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Cartoons - the New Wave: The Toon Boom Hits TV | |
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Whoops! Why Some Shows Fail | |
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Theatrical Toons: Triumph and Turmoil | |
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Bibliography | |
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Illustration Credits | |
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Index | |