Jerry Beck

Jerry Beck is a noted animation historian and cartoon producer. His over 15 books on the animation history include The Animated Movie Guide, Looney Tunes: The Ultimate Visual Guide, and The 50 Greatest Cartoons. He currently teaches animation history at Cal Arts, UCLA and Chapman University, curates a monthly “Cartoon Club” for Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema in Hollywood, and edits two blogs, Animation Scoop and Cartoon Research. As a film distributor, his company Streamline Pictures originally brought Miyazaki’s Totoro and Otomo’s Akira to the US in the 1990s. And each year he presents “The Worst Cartoons Ever” at Comic-Con International.