Animation Blast is the world's best zine about animation. The editor, Amid Amidi, likes to focus on old skool masters, and issue no. 6 has a long feature with character designer Tom Oreb, who remains all but unknown, despite his tremendous influence on cartoonists and illustrators. I've been attempting to ape his style for years without ever knowing who he was. Oreb is the guy who came up with the look of Disney's 1953 short subject, "Toot, Whistle, Plunk & Boom," perhaps the most influential ten minutes of animation to have ever entered my pupils. Don't bother looking him up on Google; there's nothing there. Just buy the zine. Link Discuss
