Amid Amidi is the author of seven books about the art of animation including Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation, which was awarded the 2007 Theatre Library Association Award for "exceptional scholarship in the field of recorded performance." His writing can be read daily on Cartoon Brew, which he co-founded in 2004. You can learn more about Amid, follow him on Twitter or contact him.

Sept 19-23, 2012 - Ottawa International Animation Festival - Ottawa, Canada

• Cartoon Modern is recommended for "further reading" in the DVD booklet packaged with the seminal new dvd release UPA: The Jolly Frolics Collection (Turner Classic Movies, 2012).

• My endorsement appears on the back of Adam Abraham's newly published When Magoo Flew: The Rise and Fall of Animation Studio UPA (Wesleyan Press, 2012).

• My research is cited in two separate essays that appear in the recently published anthology Funny Pictures: Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood (University of California Press, 2011) edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil. The essays are written by Henry Jenkins and Linda Simensky.