Congratulations

Mauro

Thanks for the response. It’s always great to get the “real world” explanations of how decisions are made that affect the final product. Writing about TV animation has got to be difficult as some series run for decades (in various forms), while others disappear within months. Thanks for the clarification, as well as telling the story about a not-often documented major animation studio. Lou IS very entertaining, and I’m sure I’ll be returning to the book often.

As the book’s co-writer — and a best-selling author myself — I can speak to the interview aspect. I did arrange the book in a chronological fashion so that it could be followed easily, but because so many of the shows spanned years, or even decades, lumping everything about the shows in one section would have done them a disservice and made the book disjointed. As the book also deals with the *entire* history of television animation in a way (as you note) that has never been presented before, removing projects to their own sections would remove them from the context of what was happening with Filmation as a company, the television animation field as a market, and even the outside social and political pressures and changes.

I would have loved to include an index for the purpose you suggest, but the book was already bumped up in page count (for no price increase) and a significant amount of material was cut to make it fit. Hopefully the tone of Lou’s stories, and me translating them into a narrative, will be entertaining enough to forgive the lack of an index.