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Monday, February 21st, 2011

Biography: Eric Larson

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Birth/Death

Occupation/Title

Bio Summary

Early Life/Family

Education/Training

Career Outline

Comments On Style

Influences

Personality

Anecdotes

Miscellaneous

Filmography

Honors

Annie Award: Winsor McCay Award 1983

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Sunday, February 20th, 2011

Biography: Al White

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Birth/Death

Occupation/Title

Background Artist for Golden Books

Bio Summary
?Bio Summary- From the information I gathered Al White worked as an Illustrator for Golden Books from the 1959 to 1964

Early Life/Family

Education/Training

Career Outline

“Huckleberry Hound Builds A House” Little Golden Book 1959?“Rocky and His Friends” Little Golden Book 1959?“Winnie The Pooh: A Tight Squeeze” Golden Press, 1980 by Milne, A. A.?“Walt Disney’s Pinocchio And The Whale” Golden Press 1961 by Ingoglia, Gina.?“Walt Disney’s The Wizards’ Duel” (Motion Picture, “The Sword in the Stone”), by Memling Golden Press 1963?“Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins” (Motion Picture) Bedford, Annie North (adapted by) Golden Press 1964

Comments On Style

Al White was a background artist so its logical to assume that he was the background artist on these Golden Books. Even though the credits of the books are to about two artists, the styles of the background and the characters are very close. It may or may not be either artists style, but since the styles of both books are similar ill comment on the two styles. ?The styles differ very much from their respective shows in which thick black outlines surrounded each character. In these golden books their outlines are blended in with color and go from thick to thin. The Golden books seem to have a more natural connection with their surroundings making the whole picture come to life instead of just isolating the character. The second noticeable difference is the color palate, again in the T.V. show the color was flat and solid, mostly because the style was developed for a budget type of animation. In the Golden Books they make it a point to give most of the characters a shadow line and a smooth gradient of color but still pretty solid. Overall the color stays the same but the shadow lines do make the characters stand out a bit.

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Personality

Anecdotes

This animator was very hard to find information on, the initial Google search is usually pretty bad but this time it was even worse. I had about two entries that were about the Al White I was looking for, otherwise the search turned up Alvin White Studios and A music Video by Weird Al Yankivich. The two entries I got though told me about at least

Miscellaneous

Filmography

Honors

Related Links

http://www.logan.com/loganberry/kidcat-big-golden.html?

Bibliographic References

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Sunday, February 20th, 2011

Biography: Harvey Eisenberg

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Birth/Death

Birth: 1912

Death: 1965

Occupation/Title

Cartoonist, Animator, Layout Artist

Bio Summary

Early Life/Family

Has one son by the name of Jerry, who works in the entertainment industry.

Education/Training

The best training Harvey recieved started when he started working as an inker at the Fleischer studio at age 18.

Career Outline

Inker/Assistant Animator at Fleishcer studio, 1930-31 and at Van Buren studio from 30-36.
Worked on Tom and Jerry from 1941 to 45 as a layout artist.
Worked again with Hanna-Barbera from 1960-1965 as a Character Designer, Layout artist, and storyboarder.

Comments On Style

Was able to achieve great sense of weight and movement within the characters.

Influences

Personality

Versatile and funny.

Anecdotes

Miscellaneous

He was co-owner of Dearfield Publishing Co. and Foxy Fagan with Joe Barbera which was not very well known.

Filmography

Tom and Jerry series.
1942 – Fraidy Cat
1943 – Sufferin’ Cats, The Lonesome Mouse.
1944 – The “Zoot Cat,” The Million dollar Cat, The Bodyguard, Puttin’ on the Dog, Mouse Trouble, The Yankee Doodle Mouse.
1945 – The Mouse Comes to Dinner, Mouse in Manhattan, Tee for Two, Quiet Please.
1960-65 – Top Cat and various TV specials.

Honors

Nothing with a statue, but he was the first to adapt “Huckleberry Hound” and “Yogi Bear” to comic books for Dell’s Four Color comic book.

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Bibliographic References

http://www.immaginariofiorentino.com/albertopage/amimatorasa-z/animatorse.html
http://www.newfromme.com
http://www.lambiek.net/e/eisenberg_harvey

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Paul Johnson

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