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The Animation Pimp

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The Animation Pimp

“This is the real thing, a real book by a real writer.” —Nick Tosches

“In no other cartoon-related writing can you find the masterful juxtaposition of Kant, Bourdieu, Halle Berry, and stiffies...The Pimp has got game and style.” —Martin “Dr.Toon” Goodman

For five years, Chris Robinson wrote a monthly column for Animation World Network (AWN) called The Animation Pimp. Although it began as a way for Robinson to let off steam in his role as director of one of the world’s largest animation festivals, the column quickly gained a cult following and just as quickly became a platform for the author’s frank, provocative and frequently very funny musings on the world of animation and his own life. The Animation Pimp collects the best of these pieces, which range from the nuts and bolts of running a festival (How To Avoid Pissing Me Off or...Ottawa Festival Entry Tips) to sex, death, superheroes, aesthetics and the living dead (You Don’t Kick a Zombie When It’s Down, You Shoot It in the Head).

Robinson’s unhinged prose is accompanied by some seventy drawings by the award-winning German artist and animator Andreas Hykade. In the spirit of Hunter Thompson, Nick Tosches and Richard Meltzer, The Animation Pimp is an outrageous, funny, and ultimately truthful account of the chaos and glimmers of illumination in an art form and a life.

Chris Robinson was born in Canada’s capital and will probably die there. His other books include Unsung Heroes of Animation and Stole This From A Hockey Card. He’s still not sure if he likes animation.

Andreas Hykade (www.hykade.de) was born in the Summer of Love in Altotting, center of the Holy Mary cult. Since he’s been a grownup, he’s created animated films for grownups. Now that he’s a father, he creates animated films for children as well.

The Animation Pimp - ISBN:1-59863-403-8

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SKU: AWN1010

Price: $19.95

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