'A genuine depth of knowledge, prodigious research, breath of ambition and sheer love of cartoondoom leap from every page. Norman Klein has written a volume which should be on every toon fan's bookshelf.' Sight and Sound

Norman M. Klein is a critic and historian of mass culture, editor of Fragile Moments: A History of Media-Induced Experience, and author of Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon from Verso. He teaches at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.