I have to admit that am "tickled to death" (as my good friend Joe Campana would say) by the four new Disney-related Italian books I just received today: One about the late Disney scholar Luca Boschi (whom I had the pleasure of meeting in person about 25 years ago in Lucca, Italy), two about Disney comic artist Giorgio Cavazzano and one about Harvey Eisenberg by my friend Alberto Becattini. 

 

VOLUNTEER NEEDED NEAR SYRACUSE

I am still looking for a volunteer near Syracuse University to conduct some Disney-related research there.

If you are willing to help, could you please email me at didier.ghez@gmail.com? (I thought I had found a volunteer but for some reason that person is now ghosting me.)

Sad news:

Disney Legend Bill ‘Sully’ Sullivan Passes Away

I just received an advance copy of Directing at Disney, the long-awaited book by Pete Docter and Don Peri about Disney directors. I had high hopes for the book and I was not disappointed.

In fact, I was blown away. This is a game-changer and a book that every single one of us Disney history enthusiasts must have on our shelves.

It is full from cover to cover of new information, and a very large amount of the illustrations have never been seen before.

Pete and Don are both outstanding Disney historians -- Yes, believe it or not, Pete is not just an amazing director and Pixar's Chief Creative Officer, he is also an accomplished Disney historian!!! And both of them did their homework and then some.

This is a book you will want to pre-order right now if you have not already done so. 

RELEASED!!! -- Walt Disney and El Grupo in Latin America

It is with utter delight that we can finally announce that our new monograph, "Walt Disney and El Grupo in Latin America" has finally been released and can be ordered via Stuart Ng Books.

Walt Disney and El Grupo in Latin America is a 230-page long, full-color, hard-cover volume that contains more than 240 never-seen-before photographs and documents related to the seminal 1941 two-and-a-half-months trip to Latin America. It is the definite day-by-day account of the trip, complete with maps and other eye-candy.

If you love Disney history, I am convinced that you will love this new publication.

It is the third installment in the Hyperion Historical Alliance Press monograph series. The print run is very limited so I would encourage you to get your copy ASAP.

We will also have a booth at D23 where you will be able to buy all our publications and get them autographed.

This is really, really exciting!

For those of you who would like to find out about the publications of the Hyperion Historical Alliance Press (including mine), I would recommend that you start following ASAP the new Hyperion Historical Alliance Press Facebook group that we have just created. There is already some fun material in there and a lot more to come next week.

For various reasons I have not been to a cinema since Oppenheimer, but I am definitely planning to catch "Inside Out 2" on the silver screen. I am very much looking forward to this, in fact.

The new book The Art of Inside Out 2 released by Chronicle Books reinforces my eagerness to watch the upcoming movie. I love the design of the new characters and the concept artwork is gorgeous.

Definitely worth adding to your library.