Books written by Jerry Beck

  • The Animated Movie Guide

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  • The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons

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  • Pink Panther: The Ultimate Guide to the Coolest Cat in Town

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  • The Art of Bee Movie

    Presents more than three hundred full-color images from the film, including pastels, digital paintings, sketches, and clay models, along with quotes from the artists, production designers, producers, and Jerry Seinfeld.

  • Warner Bros. Animation Art: The Characters, the Creators, the Limited Editions

    Warner Bros has opened up its archives for official researchers to trace the history of its most famous characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Taz, Sylvester, Tweety Pie, Porky Pig and Yosemite Sam, as well as detailing ...

  • The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals

    The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals

  • The Flintstones: The Official Guide to the Cartoon Classic

    A tribute to The Flintstones' ongoing popularity and its status as a beloved brand in American popular culture, this book will inform, entertain, and surprise new and old fans of this enduring series.

  • The Flintstones

    The Flintstones are just your average "Modern Stone-Age Family" with a woolly mammoth water heater and a housebroken Snorkasauras named Dino.

  • The Warner Brothers Cartoons

    The rantings and ravings of two enthusiastic young fans who, in an era before fanzines and web pages, wrote about the cartoons they loved in the spirit of their humor.

  • Warner Bros. Animation Art: The Characters, the Creators, the Limited Editions

    Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Warner Bros. Studios, this album features authentic animation art of everyone's favorite characters. More than 300 color illustrations trace the evolution...

  • Outlaw Animation: Cutting-Edge Cartoons from the Spike & Mike Festivals

    This fun, irreverent, first-ever survey of the best underground cartoons is full of frame grabs, rare, production stills, original artwork, and behind the scenes photographs. The author traces the development...

  • Tom and Jerry

    Explore and enjoy the Oscar-winning series that made Hanna-Barbera, delighted millions, and defined the word of Saturday morning cartoons

  • The SpongeBob SquarePants Experience: A Deep Dive into the World of Bikini Bottom

    Delving into the creation of each of the beloved characters like never before and featuring early sketches, concepts, and other material that sheds new light on the creative vision behind SpongeBob, this is the ultimate book on a true icon ...

  • Animation Anecdotes: The Hidden History of Classic American Animation

    Jim Korkis shares hundreds of funny, odd, endearing stories about the major animation studios, including Disney, Warner Brothers, MGM, Hanna-Barbera, and many more.

  • The Hanna-Barbera Treasury

    Describes how Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera became a team and explores how they created their most beloved characters and shows, including "Tom and Jerry," "Huckleberry Hound," "The Jetsons," and "Jonny Quest."

  • Horror Book

    Featuring stories and art by monster makers Nat Jones, Jerry Beck, Mark Kidwell, Jeff Zornow, RD Hall, and Jay Fotos, this massive tome of horror features four full-length tales of terror in full-fiendish color.

  • Animation Art

    This large format, comprehensive, high quality and visually rich art book covers the history of animation throughout the world, focusing heavily on the North American creative engines of Disney, Warner and now the new, small production CGI ...

  • Animation Art: From Pencil to Pixel, the History of Cartoon, Anime & CGI

    Nearly a century before Toy Story, Little Nemo appeared in the New York Herald and ushered in a major new art from. The thrilling journey from such humble origins to...

  • The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons

    The 100 greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons is the definitive, and illustrated, answer to a question posed to over 10,000 participants, then researched and written by Jerry Beck and cartoon experts like Mark Evanier (Kirby King of Comics, ...

  • Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons

    Everything you always wanted to know about Warner Bros. cartoons but were afraid to ask, this complete and indispensable reference will delight adults, children, and audiences all over the world.