NEWS & EVENTS:

Upcoming New York Events for Two Guys Named Joe

Saturday, September 25, 2010  
Book Signing 2 - 6 pm
Animazing Gallery
54 Greene Street (at Broome)
New York, NY
212-226-7374
www.animazing.com

Friday, October 1, 2010
Illustrated Lecture and Book Signing 7 pm
Museum of Modern Art
Titus 1 Theatre
11 West 53rd Street
New York, NY
212-708-9400
http://www.moma.org/

Saturday, October 2, 2010
Book Signing - call for hours
Cel-ebration! Gallery
30 Monmouth Street
Red Bank, NJ
732-842-8489
http://www.cel-ebration.com/

Saturday, October 9, 2010
Book Signing     1 -2 pm
New York Comic Con
Jacob K. Javits Center
655 West 34th Street 
New York, NY
http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/



Two Guys Named Joe: Master Animation Storytellers Joe Grant and JoeRanft
ISBN: 978-1-4231-1067-5
Disney Editions
192 Pages
$40.00

Watch John Canemaker’s new YouTube video about Two Guys Named Joe

Amid Amidi discusses Two Guys Named Joe with John Canemaker on Cartoon Brew

Read Didier Ghez's review and interview with John Canemaker

UPDATE: Additional reviews by Mike Sporn and Mark Mayerson.

In his tenth book on animation history, John Canemaker brings his unique insight and understanding to the lives
of Joe Grant (1908-2005) and Joe Ranft (1960-2005), two gifted artists whose work defined and refined the art of animation
story telling, beginning in the 1930s during the Golden Age of traditional animation at the Walt Disney Studios and continuing
into the present digital age at Pixar Animation.

Their imaginative and inventive approach to animation narrative helped create many unforgettable moments in such classic animated
features as Beauty and the Beast, Toy Story1&2, Fantasia, The Lion King, Aladdin, Monsters, Inc., Pinocchio, The Nightmare Before Christmas,
Cars, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, A Bug's Life, Dumbo and more.

Lavishly illustrated with personal art from both artists as well as rarities from the Disney and Pixar archives, Two Guys Named Joe sensitively
and candidly explores the interplay between personal creativity and the craft of animation storytelling, as seen through the lives and art of
two of animation’s most original artists.


Highlights from John Canemaker's California Two Guys Named Joe Tour

San Francisco

John Canemaker gave two well-attended talks at the Walt Disney Family Museum. His appearances in San Francisco
and Los Angeles drew positive viewer comments in Cartoon Brew.


At left, with Ron and Diane Disney Miller and Richard Benefield, Founding Executive Director,
the Walt Disney Family Museum. At right, in conversation with Diane Disney Miller


By coincidence, John's talk at Pixar on Monday, August 16, took place on the fifth anniversary of Joe Ranft's death.
John spent some time with Up!'s Academy Award-winning director Pete Docter before the event. These photos
were taken by longtime friend Sheila Saxby.

Los Angeles

It was a pleasure to meet legendary Disney/Pixar animator and story man Floyd Norman, who came to the presentation
for Ken Shue's group at Disney Publishing Worldwide. Floyd even contributed a gag sketch of the event!


Among those attending a reading and book signing at the Glendale Barnes & Noble were Joe Ranft's sister Ruth,
above left, as well as Joe Grant's daughter, Carol Grubb. Dinner afterward, at right, was a warm reunion with former
NYU students Sue Perrotto and Eugene Salandra, both now at Disney Television, and Disney historian Paula Lowery.


A morning Disneyland book signing, at left, in the Disney Gallery on Main Street USA, provided an opportunity
to meet some fans. Amy Rocchio wrote a nice article about it on Mouse Planet. Dinner that night with Howard Green
(to whom Two Guys Named Joe is dedicated), Alice Davis and Charles Solomon was a highlight of the trip.


The final talk and signing, at left, took place at the Disney Feature Animation building. While on the studio lot,
John also took a nostalgic walk through the original Animation building, now used for production offices.


The Moon and the Son on iTunes

THE MOON AND THE SON is now available for download at Apple’s iTunes Store.  Just enter “THE MOON AND THE SON” in the search box at the upper right corner of the iTunes Store home page to preview the film.  THE MOON AND THE SON is one of more than 100 award-winning short films offered exclusively on iTunes by Shorts International.


Canemaker Animation Featured on MoMA Kid's Website Destination Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art has selected John Canemaker's 1998 animated short, Bridgehampton, as the centerpiece of a learning module about filmmaking at its new interactive learning site for children, Destination Modern Art.

Destination Modern Art is a virtual museum that allows children to explore various works from MoMA's renowned collections of painting, sculpture, design and film. Users can "enter" the works of artists such as Picasso, Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Romare Bearden, sculptor Umberto Boccioni and architect Marcel Breuer, as well as access a variety of related learning activities and projects.

At the site's Movie Theater, one can watch the full six-minute film Bridgehampton, as well as select individual scenes and see original storyboard sketches from Canemaker's painterly study of the seasons on eastern Long Island.

Learning activities include a step-by-step example of how animation is done and a downloadable flip book, both of which were designed and animated by Canemaker specifically for the site.

For more information: http://www.moma.org/destination/