Comments on: WTFoster’s other book - 1

by: Charlie Judkins

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:57:20 +0000

Hi Stanley,

I am an animation historian, and if you’re interested, I’d very much like to talk to you about your father and his work.

charliejudkins@gmail.com

-Charlie Judkins

by: Mike McLaren

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:06:59 +0000

I got this book when I was kid. It was my intro into cartooning, alongside the Sunday funnies. I still use this book as a reference for motion, and to remind myself to give my cartoons weight.

by: Mark Newgarden

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:53:39 +0000

I think this one was the work of Terry/ WB animator Volney White…

by: Stanley Falk

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:09:34 +0000

Nat Falk was my father, and it’s nice to see how widely he is still appeciated.
Stanley Falk

by: Chelsea Kopacsi

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:50:15 +0000

Wow! My granddad has this book! Or did i dunno if he still does or not though…

I guess I’m NOT the only wone for whom this book was like.. THE first ‘true’ intro to how to actually animate other then Disney movies, Old WB shorts of Bugs bunny and other characters and of course Woody Woodpecker. I can only hope he still does have this gem of a book, cause i find every once in a while since he first showed it to me in gr.7 (so I was prolly… say bout 12, 13 at the time. I’m now 23.) and I was mezmerized by it, but then again, you have to understand that thsi was the first contact I’d ever had with anythign other than the direct animations themselves of course, on how to animate! Now I’m always looking at extras on films, credits and analyzing film animaitons at times, segment by segment.I can only hope some of the good animations overseas european or elsewhere can get over here (I’m hoping to sometime see the newest incarnation of The Three Robbers personaly!) and that all hope isnt lost yet for the great art of 2-d animation.

by: Michael

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:01:52 +0000

You’re right, Richard. Arthur Brown & Co. was once THE place for art supplies in NY. It was a large market for any art item or frame. Probably the closest thing to it in NY, these days, is Pearl Art supplies on Canal St. Tough, that store is lacking the aura that Art Brown had. Today, it’s just a tiny name in a web of other stores.

by: bill

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:51:00 +0000

Wow, this brings me back. This was one of the first “How to Draw” books I had as a kid. Back in the day, the Walter Foster books were just about the only cartooning books readily available.

Hmm… that explains a lot.

by: Elliot Cowan

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:48:23 +0000

I have this book in a shed at home.
I also didn’t like it as a kid.

by: Bill

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:39:03 +0000

To Michael & Richard, Seeing the name Arthur Brown & Bro. brought back a lot of good memories of buying art supplies for the first time in our lives, does anyone remember the name of the store that replaced Art Brown?

by: richard o'connor

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:24:10 +0000

I’ve seen this book listed on the back flap of the Preston Blair books and wondered if it was another Blair title, although the lack of credit raised suspicions.

Passing by the location of Arthur Brown & Bro. a few weeks ago, you’d never believe what it once was. Even when I first encountered it, the store was half (maybe less) its previous size. Now it appears halved yet again. The decay of Madison Ave, the advent of the digital arts, it’s now no more than a luxury pen shop.