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Book review: India's Immortal Comic Books

"Titled India’s Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings and Other Heroes McLain shines a light on Anant Pai and his staff at ACK to really examine the motivations behind creating the comics. Was it just about educating children or were there other motivations? ...[L]ike the famed author of A People’s History of the United States (1980), she does aim to create a public awareness of how history is told, albeit in India." —PopMatters

Book review: British Animation

"For fans of animation, certainly students, and for an account of the conflict between commercial and artistic concerns, this book is definitely worth a look ... [I]t captures the conflict between keeping audience and advertisers happy and bringing into view new creative expressions." —Kieran Curran, PopMatters

"This beautifully produced and lavishly illustrated book fills some important gaps. An intelligent but non-academic history of British animation, with particular focus on its creative peak in the 1980s and 1990s, it offers a behind-the-scenes account of a vital aspect of Channel 4 that has been sidelined by its official histories, plus detailed studies of individual films—mostly short personal pieces that have not previously enjoyed this level of scrutiny in print." —Michael Brooke, Sight & Sound

Book review: British Animation

"Clare Kitson has written a characteristically engaging, pertinently-detailed and wrily-amusing study of the heydays of animated film in Britain . . . The book should appeal to anyone at all drawn to animation, as a casual spectator, serious student,or professional practitioner." —Phillip Bergson, Fest21.com