 MichaelBarrier.com Exploring the World of Animation and Comic
Art   Walter, Walter Everywhere  [Click here to go a list of the
errors and ambiguities in this book, and here to go to a
Feedback page devoted this book and my own The Animated Man: A
Life of Walt Disney.]  It feels odd to correct the page proofs
of a biography you've just written while you're also reading
someone else's new book about the same person. That was my
situation in November, when I corrected the page proofs for The
Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney as I read Neal Gabler's Walt
Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination.  Walt Disney
book jacketMy dominant emotion in those circumstances was, of
course, dread. As Gabler's publisher, Knopf, unfailingly
reminded reviewers and potential readers, he had "complete
access" to the Walt Disney Archives in Burbank, by far the
richest trove of Disney-related documents. I spent at least four
or five months in those archives, in total, doing research for
Hollywood Cartoons: American Animatio