X-Men

Name: X-Men
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9781419744686
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The Art and Making of The Animated Series

By Eric Lewald and Julia Lewald

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X-Men: The Art and Making of the Animated Series takes fans behind the scenes of the Emmy Award-winning cartoon that grounded the many Marvel Comics adaptations that followed. Featuring interviews with writers, producers, and executives, the book reveals the challenges Marvel and Fox faced in bringing the X-Men to television. It details the tough decisions and creative solutions behind a critically acclaimed series, showcasing rare original art, animated cels, production stills, and merchandising ephemera.
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This book is ideal for X-Men enthusiasts, Marvel fans, animation aficionados, and those interested in television production and comic book history.

Case credits, pencil roughs by Larry Houston, finishes and inks by Rick Hoberg, colors by Laura Martin.

Candid interviews, detailed script break-downs, and rarely seen concept sketches, character designs, story boards, and animation cels take readers behind the scenes of one of the most celebrated, revolutionary animated series of all time.

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X-Men: The Art and Making of the Animated Series takes fans behind the scenes of the Emmy Award–winning cartoon that laid the groundwork for the dozens of Marvel Comics adaptations that followed. Interviews with series writers, producers, and executives reveal the razor’s edge that Marvel and Fox navigated in order to bring the X-Men to television and detail the tough decisions, compromises, and brilliant solutions that resulted in a series that has been lauded by critics and fans for nearly three decades.

Along the way, readers will encounter such comics and entertainment luminaries as Stan Lee, Avi Arad, and Haim Saban. This book gives a firsthand account of what it’s like to develop, pitch, design, write, and direct an animated series, accompanied by rare original art, animated cels and still frames, and production and merchandising ephemera.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Critics praise this encyclopedic volume as the definitive guide to the 1990s X-Men animated series. Yahoo! Entertainment notes many fans consider the series the iconic screen version. Geeks Worldwide and The Beat call it a must-read for fans. Reviews highlight its in-depth behind-the-scenes insights, rare artwork, and appeal to animation enthusiasts and collectors alike, with The Los Angeles Times and Comic Book Resources emphasising its indispensable status for Marvel fans.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781419744686

Publisher: Abrams

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 October 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Abrams

Illustration: 300 colour illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 261.0mm

Height: 312.0mm

Weight: 1790g

Pages: 288

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Arts & Culture Eric Lewald Julia Lewald Non-Fiction

About the Author

Eric Lewald is one of the premier writer-producers in animated television and has been the showrunner on 13 series. He is married to Julia Lewald.

Julia Lewald is an award-winning writer and showrunner who crafted scripts for X-Men: The Animated Series as well as for such hits as Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, and Transformers: Robots in Disguise. She is married to Eric Lewald.