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Genius, Animated: The Cartoon Art of Alex Toth Paperback (IDW Publishing)

Genius, Animated: The Cartoon Art of Alex Toth Paperback (IDW Publishing)

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Experience a spectacular, production-packed blockbuster look into legendary animation history! Genius, Animated: The Cartoon Art of Alex Toth Paperback delivers a massive, 336-page comprehensive behind-the-scenes showcase capturing the Eisner Award-winning creative process of one of the most influential character designers of all time. 
IDW Publishing's premier archival line offers heavy-duty, oversized, and meticulously detailed art book volumes that collect a wealth of production secrets. Serving as the definitive companion book concluding the legendary trilogy alongside Genius, Isolated and Genius, Illustrated, this essential visual chronicle takes you deep undercover on a high-stakes animation history and conceptual modeling hunt. Read along as the production files trace Toth's legendary style transformations, clashing brutally through complex model sheets, rough multi-character storyboards, and striking promotional panels to secure a flawless historic archive before the book hits your private collection. 
Key Production Highlights:
  • The Hanna-Barbera Archives: Follow an extraordinary array of rare and never-before-published character designs culled directly from studio vaults, mapping out the definitive models for Saturday morning classics like Space Ghost, Shazzan, Jonny Quest, and Super Friends. 
  • The Pitch Stage Vault: Watch the visionary designer deploy on a brutal, investigative tactical mission, unearthing beautiful presentation illustrations crafted for experimental television series that were ultimately left unsold.
  • The Career-Spanning Blueprints: Witness the lethal combination of early structural outlines from Space Angel side-by-side with his final 1980s television contributions on Bionic Six, completely supported by raw production commentaries and expert observations from fellow animation professionals. 
This incredible, heavy-duty book is an absolute crown-jewel library centerpiece addition for modern comic book completionists, classic Saturday morning cartoon historians, and sequential art instructors looking to study master-level character drafting, minimalist silhouette dynamics, and industry-defining layout compositions by legends Bruce Canwell, Dean Mullaney, and Alex Toth. 
Product Specifications
  • Publisher: Library of American Comics / IDW Publishing
  • Lead Author & Archivist: Bruce Canwell
  • Editors & Designers: Dean Mullaney
  • Lead Illustrator & Character Designer: Alex Toth
  • Format: Thick Archive Oversized Trade Paperback
  • Configuration: [New Edition] (Revised Softcover Release)
  • Condition: Brand New Condition / Unread Archive Stock
  • Availability: In Print / Actively Distributed
  • Print Length: 336 premium heavyweight illustrated pages
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-13: 979-8887240510
  • Accolades: Winner of the 2015 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book
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