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Full Steam Ahead!
The Life and Art of Ward Kimball • By Amid Amidi • Foreword by Brad Bird
“Ward’s the one man who works for me I call a genius,” Walt Disney once noted. Ward
Kimball’s career as an animator and Academy Award–winning director at Disney between the
1930s and the 1970s is legendary, but the work he created outside of the animation studio
was equally fascinating, including building a functioning locomotive in his backyard and
founding an award-winning Dixie land band. With unprecedented access to his personal
archives, celebrated animation historian Amid Amidi unearthed hundreds of never-beforeseen
drawings, paintings, comics, letters, and photos, including concept art and stories
from his occasionally turbulent career at Disney. Featuring interviews with dozens of
Ward’s colleagues, relatives, students, and friends, Amidi paints a complex portrait of one
of animation’s most irreverent and influential artists in this definitive must-have biography.
Amid Amidi is the award-winning author of numerous books
about animated filmmaking, including Cartoon Modern:
Style and Design in Fifties Animation. He lives in Brooklyn.
Full Steam Ahead!
$45.00 US
HC • 978-0-8118-6631-6
9 x 11 in, 240 pp, 200
full-color images
Rights: W
Animation/Biography
OCTOBER
38 [P] 800 759 0190 / [F] 800 286 9471 / CHRONICLEBOOKS.COM
Brad Bird is the Academy Award–winning director of
Ratatouille, The Incredibles, and Mission Impossible IV.
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