My new book is now available via Stuart Ng Books. Hurrah!

I am very impressed by this new book released by The Old Mill Press. The author did his homework beautifully and I discovered around 20 photos of Walt which I had not seen before.

A must-have for Disney parks enthusiasts.

If you love the Donald Duck comic stories created by Carl Barks (who doesn't?) and want to read them in the format that they deserve (the massive Taschen format) then this new book is definitely for you.

And it comes with an introduction that my friend Jim Fanning, which, as always, is a real joy to read.

Be warned though... you will need a bigger bookshelf or even a bigger house to store this gigantic volume.

Once again Taschen outdid themselves.

I just received my copy of Tim Foster's new book, Spaceship Earth--The Definitive History. Once again Tim did a wonderful job with this project without access to the Disney Archives or the WDI Archives. I am really, really glad to own this book.

Is this "The Definitive History"? It is not. For this we will have to get access to the WDI archives and to read the memos and other documents related to the creation and construction of the attraction.

But is this book a marvelously detailed starting point through which I learned a lot? The answer is an unconditional "yes." Way to go Tim!

 The Disney Books Network has just been updated.

Wonderful news to start the day! Walt's People--Volume 31 has just been released.

As the back cover mentions:

[In this volume, animator IZZY KLEIN shares memories of story artist and Big Mouseketeer, Roy Williams, and of a prank Williams played on his colleague, Ed Penner, on a hot summer day

Actor KEVIN CORCORAN explains how, during the filming of the movie, Swiss Family Robinson, an elephant stood on his head.

Historian BOB THOMAS discusses the making of The Rescuers with sixteen Disney artists and gets candid answers from both the "old guard" and the "new blood.'

And cinematographers ERNST and JEAN HEINIGER take us to the Japan of the 1950s during the filming of two episodes of Disney's "People and Places" series Japan and Ama Girls

All this and much more...]

And here is the table of contents:

[Bob Thomas: Dorothy and Glenn Puder

The Letters of Izzy Klein

Michael Barrier: Paul Satterfield

Paul Sorokowski: Don Lusk

Ken Anderson Remembers Milt Kahl

Dave Mason: Eleanor McConville

Michael Mallory: Kathryn Beaumont

Robin Allan: Kathryn Beaumont

EMC West: Ilene Woods

Jérémie Noyer: Mary Costa

Michael Singer: Kevin Corcoran

Toshio Oka: Ernst Heiniger

Ernst Heiniger: Death is Often Closer Than You Think

Jean Heiniger: Japan as I Remember

Ernst Heiniger: A Flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo

Ernst Heiniger: A Shinto Wedding

Ernst Heiniger: The Family of Fishermen from Inatori, Japan

Jean Heiniger: A Year in the Grand Canyon

Ernst Heiniger: The Last Flight of an Owl

Ernst Heiniger: An Intimate Report on Walt Disney—Man and Genius

A Decade with Disneyland by Ed Ettinger

Bob Thomas: Andy Gaskill

Bob Thomas: Dick Sebast

Bob Thomas: Bill Cottrell

Bob Thomas: Ollie Johnston

Bob Thomas: Frank Thomas

Bob Thomas: Art Stevens

Bob Thomas: John Pomeroy

Bob Thomas: Jack Buckley

Bob Thomas: James Coleman

Bob Thomas: Cliff Nordberg

Bob Thomas: Ron Clements

Bob Thomas: Bob McCrea

Bob Thomas: Dale Baer

Bob Thomas: Don Bluth

Bob Thomas: Woolie Reitherman, Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas, and Larry Clemmons

Jim Korkis: Joe Ranft

Michael Broggie: Buzz Price

Bob Thomas: Buzz Price]

Two months ago I forgot to mention the release of this beautiful new art book by Chronicle Books about the color scripts of Pixar (complete with a foreword by the late Ralph Eggleston). 

If you own The Color of Pixar, you will know exactly what to expect. It is a small book full of stunning color scripts. A true delight for the connaisseurs.