Disney gets TWISTED with J. Michael Tatum and Paul Castro
On November 4, on behalf of Animation Scoop, I had the pleasure of interviewing J. Michael Tatum about his role as headmaster wizard Dire Crowley in DISNEY TWISTED – WONDERLAND. What’s impressive about Mr. Tatum is that he—like James Earl Jones—overcame a stuttering handicap by becoming an actor. And he’s racked up an impressive array of voiceover credits. Read all about it here.
I also spoke with Paul Castro Jr. He plays Riddle Rosehearts, the hotheaded housewarden of his dorm, Heartslabvul, representing the Queen of Hearts from ALICE IN WONDERLAND. How does he perform such an intense character? Find out here.
Pronounce “Heartslabvul” ten times fast. I dare you. 🙂
I’m on PBS!
THE UNOFFICIAL BATMAN: THE ANIMATED INTERVIEWS, Volume One now available in paperback!
TOMORROW, February 1! It’s the day Volume One of THE UNOFFICIAL BATMAN: THE ANIMATED INTERVIEWS will be released in paperback. It’ll be black and white and for that reason, more affordable the hardbound versions. To top it off, you can purchase it cheaper than list price directly from the publisher. Here’s the announcement from BearManor Media:
“20% off everything on www.bearmanormedia.com for a week! Sale ends Feb. 7 at midnight, no coupons needed!”
The sale also applies to the five volumes of the hardbound version as well, which are in color.
The paperbacks will be published one volume per month beginning with Volume One tomorrow. This first volume covers the first season of BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES and features interviews with Michael Uslan, Margaret Loesch, Jean MacCurdy, Sidney Iwanter, Bruce Timm, Eric Radomski, Alan Burnett, Paul Dini, Kevin Altieri, Dan Riba, Ted Blackman, Brad Rader, Shayne Poindexter, Andrea Romano, Shirley Walker and more! Foreword by Batman expert Robert Greenberger. For further details see https://wrmilleronline.com/batman/
Watchtower Database plugs BATMAN: THE ANIMATED INTERVIEWS!
Watchtower Database, purveyor of all things DCAU, has mentioned The Unofficial Batman: The Animated Interviews on their YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxGN1S2ot-_y3muGJiK0iYKx6bFKYOA-Ut
I mention Watchtower Database in the “Recommended Media” section of Volume Five. With the kind permission of their webmaster, James Strecker, I quoted from select interviews for inclusion of B:TAI.
Check ’em out for updated info about the DCAU.
Over 30 Years in the Making! Now Available: The Unofficial BATMAN: THE ANIMATED INTERVIEWS
Today’s the day! The culmination of researching a span of over 30 years! BearManor Media has published BATMAN: THE ANIMATED INTERVIEWS, five volumes, hardbound editions in color! Who made BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES and its spinoffs? How was it made? Why did it become pivotal in the animation industry, and what accounts for its popularity decades later?
We find out from Michael Uslan, the Man Who Saved Batman; network executives Margaret Loesch, Sidney Iwanter, Linda Simensky; Warner Bros. executives Jean MacCurdy and Tom Ruegger; DC executives Paul Levitz and Mike Carlin, producers Bruce Timm, Eric Radomski, Alan Burnett, Paul Dini, Randy Rogel, Shaun McLaughlin; directors Kevin Altieri, Boyd Kirkland, Dan Riba; voice director Andrea Romano; actors Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Loren Lester, Diane Pershing, Will Friedle; writers Mitch Brian, Stan Berkowitz, Robert Goodman, Joe R. Lansdale, Rich Fogel; Shirley Walker and the Dynamic Music Partners (composers) Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis, Kristopher Carter; animator-director Greg Duffell; painters Ted Blackman, Gary Montalbano and John Calmette; designers Shayne Poindexter and Jon Fisher, and more!
This project is my tribute to the many talents responsible for crafting such a groundbreaking series. They deserve recognition!
Volume One: 852 pages. Batman: The Animated Series, Season One. Foreword by Robert Greenberger.
Volume Two: 820 pages. Batman: The Animated Series, Season Two, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero. With episode guides. Foreword by Robert Greenberger.
Volume Three: 632 pages. Spotlight on the cast. The New Batman Adventures. Episode guide. Foreword by voice director Andrea Romano.
Volume Four: 638 pages. Batman Beyond. With episode guide. Foreword by Joe R. Lansdale.
Volume Five: 742 pages. Batman’s appearances in Justice League, Zeta Project, Static Shock and home videos. Overview of Batman: The Animated Series. Foreword by Jerry Beck.
Note the page count. Each volume has enough material for three or four 200-page books!
Dan Riba, director, Annie Award nominee and three-time Emmy Award winner:
“Bob Miller has done the impossible … he has managed to document the creation of the entire DCAU. I just can’t believe how extensive it is. I was there, but I learned so much I wasn’t aware of. This is now the definitive book on the creation of the DCAU.”
Alan Burnett, Writer/Producer, Warner Bros. Animation, 1991-2017. Winner, three Daytime Emmys, one Primetime Emmy, two Humanitas Prizes, and the Animation Writers Caucus Animation Award.
“I know of no one more dedicated to the history of animation than W.R. Miller, and the work he has done here on Batman is truly encyclopedic.”
Randy Rogel, Emmy-winning writer on Batman: The Animated Series.
“A definitive account detailing the creation and development of Batman: The Animated Series, its history and legacy, brilliantly compiled by Robert Miller. Entertaining, informative, and absolutely riveting, a must-read for all Batman fans and Animation historians. Bravo Robert, you’ve earned your place in the Batcave!”
For more details please visit here: wrmilleronline.com/batman/
Individual purchases, online reviews and requests to librarians to buy this set for their collection are most welcome, and appreciated.
The Bat-Signal shines!
The End of the DCAU
For years fans of Batman: The Animated Series have clamored for a return to the DC Animated Universe, for more episodes of B:TAS or Batman Beyond or Justice League Unlimited. At conventions, the casts have appeared on panels, attempting to spur interest. Surely Warner Bros. would be encouraged by home video sales, merchandise, and the numbers viewing the series on streaming services. In fact, it was due to streaming that Warners renewed Young Justice after years from the previous season. And Disney, after acquiring the rights to X-Men, recognized the value of that property enough to continue its story decades later, but from its original time frame, 1997. So why didn’t Warners do the same with Batman?
It turns out, the studio wanted to. But Bruce Timm didn’t. He wanted to revamp the franchise. In the August 2, 2024 online edition of The Wrap,[1] Drew Taylor found out what happened.
It was around the spring of 2020. According to Timm, “They said, ‘Hey, how would you feel about going back and making some more ‘B:TAS’ episodes?’ And I’m like, ‘Nah, we’d been there, we’d done that.’ I wasn’t interested in just revisiting that world,”
Though he and James Tucker did consider a new Justice League series. But both wanted to do Gotham City stories that they weren’t able to do in the original Batman: TAS. Instead, they rebooted the concept with directors J. J. Abrams and Matt Reeves involved as executive producers. This would be Batman: Caped Crusader, Initially, it would be streamed for HBO Max (later renamed “Max”), but Warners and Discovery merged, and they instead licensed the property to Amazon Prime. The show’s first ten episodes premiered August 1, 2024.
A week prior, on Saturday, July 27, Comic-Con International: San Diego screened the first episode in Room 6BCF at 2:45 p.m. This was prefaced by a video from Bruce Timm explaining the new show complements the original B:TAS.
Still, it’s a reboot.
Timm told The Wrap that his Zoom pitch to Abrams and Reeves was, “I wanted to blend the atmospherics of Universal horror movies and the drama of Warner Bros. gangster movies and the action of Republic serials and mix it all together with a lot of film noir on top.”
On “X”, Chieze Noma commented, “Um, perhaps I’m missing something here, but the OG Batman:TAS already did that. And it was done better.”
What’s really different is gender-swapping, race-swapping, character redefinition, cast changes, a score not done by Shirley Walker or her proteges, The Dynamic Music Partners, the addition of profanity and a higher degree of violence. Not for family viewing. Pandering. Change for the sake of change.
Alas, Bruce Timm’s revelation came too late to include in Batman: The Animated Interviews, which details the making and legacy of the original Batman: The Animated Series and its DCAU spinoffs. But it is noted here, for possible inclusion in updated volumes.
Aside from Bruce Timm, the only crew from the B:TAS days are background/color designer David Karoll and supervising dialogue director Mark Keatts. (James Tucker joined the DCAU in The New Batman Adventures.) Why not hire the rest of the available crew? No answer has been publicly forthcoming.
But the DCAU could continue with more episodes of Batman Beyond, or Justice League Unlimited, or even a spinoff with Nightwing or a future Justice League Unlimited. And the available talents could be hired for those projects. And they would be produced by DCAU alumni while Timm is involved in his own show.
One can hope.
[1] “Why ‘Batman: The Animated Series’ Creator Bruce Timm Finally Returned to Gotham City With ‘Caped Crusader’; The animator tells TheWrap about developing the show for Max before getting saved by Prime Video.”
BATMAN: THE ANIMATED INTERVIEWS–The BearManor Media Interview
July 6, 2024.
To promote their books, BearManor Media asks its authors to talk about their work in the form of an interview. Here’s what I said about The Unofficial Batman: The Animated Interviews:
Batman: The Animated Series proved to be a resounding success, and still enjoys popularity three decades later. What qualifies you to write its history?
I began working in the animation industry in the late 1980s, first as a layout artist on Kricfalusi’s Beany & Cecil, then as a writer/story editor for Hahnfilm in Germany, then as an assistant animator at Don Bluth’s studio in Burbank, then as a storyboard revisionist on Garfield & Friends. During that time I networked with various industry professionals. This experience helped formulate the questions I would later ask in interviews.
Industry scuttlebutt spread about an exciting new animated project at Warner Bros., a ground-breaking series that didn’t talk down to the audience, that allowed for high-stakes action-adventure and angst at levels rarely done in American cartoons. And its dark dynamic style was visually captivating. This was Batman: The Animated Series.
At the time, I was also freelancing as a writer for Starlog and Comics Scene. The editor, David McDonnell, assigned me to interview some of Batman’s key creatives: producers Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski, writer Paul Dini, director Kevin Altieri, and the voice of Batman/Bruce Wayne himself, Kevin Conroy. They provided first-hand accounts of the show while it was in production. These talks became the foundation of Batman: The Animated Interviews, in which, years later, I spoke with executives, directors, writers, directors, designers, actors and composers to add their perspective, which had the benefit of hindsight. David McDonnell helped as a first-pass editor for the project.
Batman: The Animated Interviews is a tribute to those involved with B:TAS and its spinoffs, collectively known as the DCAU. People need to know what it takes to make such a high-quality show, and who made it, and why, and the reasons for its success.
What was the most interesting thing you discovered?
During my research, I discovered a DVD video commentary in which Bruce Timm, while crewing up for Batman Beyond, disclosed that some of the new talent had never heard of Jack Kirby. Jack Kirby! “The King of Comics”! The man who designed and drew Captain America, The Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Ant-Man, the mighty Thor, X-Men, the Silver Surfer, the Inhumans, Dr. Doom, and many more for Marvel and DC Comics. The artist who inspired Bruce Timm and many artists of his generation. Well, if the public can forget about Jack Kirby, the same could happen with the makers of Batman:TAS. Hopefully this project will help sustain their memory. Their work will last, but the makers themselves should never be forgotten.
What pitfalls or rewards did you find along the way?
One reward was the opportunity to meet with the people whose work I admired, most of whom were movers-and-shakers in the television, animation, and comics industries. They were generous with their time and willingness to share their experience, for which I’m grateful. Sometimes, an interviewee revealed an anecdote that merited exploring—such as Jean McCurdy, president of Warner Bros. Animation, mentioning that Randy Rogel, the Emmy Award-winning writer, composer and musician—wrote a Batman stage musical. I spoke with Randy about it, during which he performed a wonderful selection from it. Further details about that project in Volume Three.
John Cerio shared his collection of images autographed by the cast and crew, and Shayne Poindexter shared his many caricatures from the studio’s “Wall of Shayne.”
Batman: The Animated Interviews is presented in Q&A format, with the people speaking for themselves. Sometimes a person doesn’t remember, or “mis-remembers” specific cases. Other times there are differences of opinion, like the testimonies in Rashomon.
And yes, there are claims that may elicit controversy.
What will readers enjoy about your book?
Readers will learn from amazingly-talented people on how to achieve success—that the principles they followed can also be applied to the reader’s own life.
Fans of Batman: The Animated Series will enjoy the insightful interviews, as well as the episode guides with copious cross-referencing, collections of sample reviews from each series or movie, listings of otherwise-uncredited musicians, and indexes to help zero in on topics.
Why five volumes?
The more people I interviewed, the more referrals they gave for others to be included. Sometimes I would find a new source of eye-opening information. Plus, news about the DCAU needed to be added, with Alan Burnett and Paul Dini writing Batman: The Adventures Continue, DC issuing omnibus editions of its DCAU comics, and the passing of Kevin Conroy, Arleen Sorkin and Richard Moll. I had to keep the project up-to-date as much as possible.
Other reporters gave permission to publish their articles in this project; they’re included for the sake of completeness, and historical preservation.
What is featured in each volume?
Volume One: The origins and production of Batman: The Animated Series. Testimonies from the executives and creatives involved. The challenges in its production. The breakthroughs it achieved as an animated cartoon.
Volume Two: Continued coverage of Batman: The Animated Series, plus Batman: Mask of the Phantasm and Batman & Mr. Freeze: Subzero. Retrospectives from the cast and crew. Comprehensive episode guides and review samplers. Exploring the fate of Mr. Freeze. A list of uncredited musicians.
Volume Three: A focus on The New Batman Adventures with its controversial design changes, Batman’s appearances in Superman: The Animated Series, and spinoffs Gotham Girls, Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman and Batman and Harley Quinn. Interviews with the cast and voice director, Andrea Romano. A memorial section is dedicated to the late Kevin Conroy, with commemorative artwork by directors Dan Riba, Kevin Altieri, and Brazilian artist Gonzalo Guastavino. Plus episode guides and review samplers.
Volume Four: Spotlighting Batman Beyond—why it was made, the challenges of its production, how it impacted the DCAU, and the controversy surrounding the home video, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker. Also covered: Future Batman’s appearances in The Zeta Project, Static Shock, Justice League Unlimited and Darwyn Cooke’s Batman Beyond: The Batman 75th Anniversary short. Producers and executives discuss who Batman’s heir should be. Plus, episode guides and review samplers are included.
Volume Five: Features Batman in the expanding DCAU with his appearances in Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, and in select home videos. Producer Bob Goodman talks about Batman Beyond’s spinoff, The Zeta Project, its creation, production, cancellation and fate of its characters. Select episode guides and review samplers are provided. Batman’s animated legacy is explored by the cast, crew, and various comics and animation industry celebrities. Also, there’s a Recommended Media listing.
For further details visit https://wrmilleronline.com/batman/.
What do you hope to achieve with your book?
Recognition for those who made Batman: The Animated Series and its spinoffs. Executive producer Tom Ruegger expressed it best, that the show’s success is due to the people who made it.
Batman: The Animated Interviews is unauthorized by Warner Bros. or DC Entertainment, meaning, it’s unexpurgated. The testimonies come directly from the talents involved, freely expressed. It is an editorial, educational, scholarly work presented for historical posterity, for the express purpose of honoring those who made B:TAS and its DCAU spinoffs.
Warners executive Jean MacCurdy, writer-producer Randy Rogel, writer Joe R. Lansdale, director Dan Riba have called this project the definitive history of the DCAU. Compiling it has been a great pleasure.
What other endorsements have you received?
I’m honored, and grateful, that the project received praise from Sir Richard Taylor of Weta Workshop, Fox Kids executive Margaret Loesch, Dragon Prince creators Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond, Fast Company technology editor Harry McCracken, writer-producer Alan Burnett, British news anchor and filmmaker David Whiteley, composers Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis and Kristopher Carter, voice director Andrea Romano, animation historians Jerry Beck and Mark Mayerson, network executive Linda Simensky, and more.
A full list is available at https://wrmilleronline.com/batman/.
Who’s faster, Superman or the Flash?
Yes, even though these books are about Batman, this is an all-important question. So I asked such industry notables as DC Comics publisher Paul Levitz, DC Comics executive Mike Carlin, writer-producer Rich Fogel, writer Stan Berkowitz, writer-producer Bob Goodman, associate producer Shaun McLaughlin, Dan Riba and Joe R. Lansdale. Their answers may surprise you.
Update on BATMAN: THE ANIMATED INTERVIEWS
June 5, 2024. I have received one more endorsement for Batman: The Animated Interviews from Linda Simensky, currently head of animation and scripted content for Duolingo.
“Batman: The Animated Interviews brings together five volumes that include every bit of information about these animated series that you could imagine. I am in awe of Bob Miller’s meticulous attention to detail, his thorough research, and his ability to ask all the right questions of the insiders who created and produced the series. Bob continues to be one of the most important chroniclers of animation history today and he has produced a series of important and compelling interviews. His knowledge of Warner Bros. Animation and the Batman cartoons is astounding and these books are a gift to the fans.”
–Linda Simensky, network executive, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, PBS Kids. June Foray Award honoree.
Her recommendation is now added to the accolades found here.
Now the back covers for all five volumes are finished, and an announcement for their publication will be made soon.
Praise for BATMAN: THE ANIMATED INTERVIEWS
Prior to a book’s release, it’s helpful for an author to gather endorsements from prominent individuals, who are given advance reader copies for their review. These are the accolades I’ve received for Batman: The Animated Interviews. I’m grateful for all of them:
“Bob Miller’s highly researched and thoroughly engaging history, Batman: The Animated Interviews, is a testament to a terrific writer who clearly loves storytelling and animation as he chronicles the gargantuan efforts to develop, produce and showcase the multi-Emmy award-winning Batman: The Animated Series. These books should be part of the curriculum of any school or university teaching writing, production and animation. Bob’s books describe the perseverance, passions and unfettered commitment to quality from all those engaged to deliver a truly great series, from the ‘upstart’ network, FOX Kids, to the remarkable creative output of the teams at Warner Animation. We all truly believed this Batman series would be great and Bob’s penetrating questions, which rendered thoughtful answers, help the readers and fans understand how the series was made, and why it worked so well. It was like a perfect storm. Everything came together … not easily, but magnificently.”
—Margaret Loesch, President & CEO/Vice-Chairman, Fox Kids Networks Worldwide, 1990-1998. Winner of five Daytime Emmy Awards. Responsible for bringing Batman: The Animated Series, X-Men, and the Power Rangers franchise to Fox Kids television.
“Holy-hairdo – Bob Miller has compiled an incredible collation of factual knowledge and an extraordinary thesis that fully captures the depth and breadth of this groundbreaking series. Bob has skillfully allowed the reader to share in the wonderful creative process that the show creators went to in the production of this show – and he has opened up a greater understanding for all fans of the Batman animated series of why it has entered the pantheon of television production and animated series. Congratulations to Bob for another stellar publication, and for keeping the flame burning so brightly for the craft of TV animation.”
— Richard Taylor, CEO/Creative Director, Wētā Workshop (Wellington, NZ).
“Bob Miller is a true fan and a true insider who knows how great things are made, and his creator interviews uncover deep and real insights. The perspectives contained in these volumes are fascinating and delightful!”
—Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond, Emmy Award-winning producers and co-creators, The Dragon Prince.
“For decades, I’ve known Bob as one of animation scholarship’s most ambitious, meticulous historians. So I knew that when he compiled his Batman interviews in book form, he’d do the job right. What he’s produced exceeds even my expectations. Every legendary TV series deserves a tribute as loving, wide-ranging, and authoritative as what he’s created.”
—Harry McCracken, technology editor, Fast Company and former editor, Animato
“You didn’t know how much you didn’t know. The ultimate definitive guide to Batman: The Animated Series.”
—Jean MacCurdy, President, Warner Bros. Animation, 1989-2001. Winner, two Daytime Emmys, one Primetime Emmy, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Burbank International Children’s Film Festival.
“I know of no one more dedicated to the history of animation than W.R. Miller, and the work he has done here on Batman is truly encyclopedic.”
—Alan Burnett, Writer/Producer, Warner Bros. Animation, 1991-2017. Winner, three Daytime Emmys, one Primetime Emmy, two Humanitas Prizes, and the Animation Writers Caucus Animation Award.
“Bob Miller paints an incredibly vivid picture of the creation of Batman: The Animated Series, skillfully using the voices of those who worked on the groundbreaking series as his brush. Digging far deeper than one would expect, here Miller creates an illuminating depiction of one of the best cartoons ever made that’s impossible to put down.”
—James Harvey, Webmaster, The World’s Finest and Toonzone
“This collection is a treasure. While a handful of bits of commentary make their way in from our videos at the Watchtower Database YouTube channel, there is just so much I’ve yet to read that I’ll be flipping through here for weeks … and that’s a good thing! For all our research through interviews old and new, to try and stay as objective as possible for our DC Animated Universe-themed videos and other projects, Bob has done the unthinkable: put the vast majority of it in one place. I know I’ll be referencing these essays for years to come!”
—James Strecker, Producer/Editor, Watchtower Database
“What a terrific read this is. There are so many great stories and such great insights into the making of that show that it’s astonishing. I can’t wait to read the next volume.”
—Craig Miller, Producer, Publicist, Writer, and first Director of Fan Relations at Lucasfilm.
“A definitive account detailing the creation and development of Batman: The Animated Series, its history and legacy, brilliantly compiled by Robert Miller. Entertaining, informative, and absolutely riveting, a must-read for all Batman fans and Animation historians. Bravo Robert, you’ve earned your place in the Batcave!”
—Randy Rogel, Emmy-winning writer on Batman: The Animated Series.
“You want to know about this classic series, this is the definitive source.”
—Joe R. Lansdale, Champion Mojo Storyteller. Inductee, The Texas Literary Hall of Fame, and winner of many honors including the British Fantasy Award, the American Horror Award, the Edgar Allen Poe Award, and eleven Bram Stoker Awards.
“I know Bob Miller to be a multi-faceted artist with a curiosity for and knowledge of pop culture matched only by his impressive skills and talents as a writer and artist. Bob is a creative soul to the core with a finely tuned microscope aimed keenly on the details. From my experience, Bob is an artist’s interviewer; he asks the questions of his subjects that demand thoughtfulness and truthful expression. It’s always a pleasure to be in conversation with him – he listens closely and reports truthfully.”
—Jason Simpson, actor, Leo and UBCP/ACTRA Award honoree, voice of Lord Viren and Barius on The Dragon Prince.
“On rare occasions, the right people come together at the right time for the right opportunity. That was the case for Batman: The Animated Series and its successors. Thanks to W.R. Miller, those people tell their stories about how this ground-breaking work was made, changing the face of TV animation forever.
“I have to say that I am extremely impressed with the thoroughness. Lots of animation-related interviews stick to the artists, but Miller has gone way beyond that and he’s given people a comprehensive idea of how an animated series comes together. Obviously, the fans will love this, but I think that the books have value for historians and for students. Anyone who aspires to get into the business will get a better picture of all that’s involved from these books than from anything else I’m aware of.”
—Mark Mayerson, animator, historian, and educator. Creator of Monster by Mistake and Tripp to the Stars.
“Bob Miller’s extensive research results in an incredibly comprehensive set of volumes about all things Animated Batman portrayed by Warner Bros. Animation. We’re thrilled these interviews and history are finally available to the general public and particularly to fans of the shows. We’re pleased to be a part of such a monumental work.”
—Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis, Kristopher Carter—The Dynamic Music Partners, composers. Daytime Emmy Award winners for Batman Beyond and many nominations for the Emmy, Annie and Jerry Goldsmith Awards.
“Bob Miller has done the impossible … he has managed to document the creation of the entire DCAU. I just can’t believe how extensive it is. I was there, but I learned so much I wasn’t aware of. This is now the definitive book on the creation of the DCAU.”
—Dan Riba, director, Annie Award nominee and three-time Emmy Award winner.
“He’s done it again! What a delight for any Batman fan, or indeed, lovers of the evolution of pop culture. From the very start you’re taken on a journey of discovery. Just like the caped crusader himself, no stone is left unturned. From ‘Pow’ to ‘Wow.’
“W.R. Miller emulates Batman himself with his very own forensic tenacity and attention to detail, charting the history of our hero’s animated life! This really has to be the most definitive timeline you can imagine. It’s like the Batman bible!”
—David Whiteley – British TV Anchor and Filmmaker
“These interviews are like a debriefing … and offer great insight into what we were thinking and doing in our combined effort to create something new from something existing … something comic book fans had very strong opinions about. This book delves into how we accomplished that goal. I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I did!”
—Andrea Romano, casting and voice director, eight-time Emmy Award winner.
“Bob Miller’s superb books on the various Warner Batman animated series produced since 1992 shine a well-deserved spotlight (or should I say Bat-Signal) on the creatives behind these game-changing shows.”
—Jerry Beck, animation historian, June Foray and Inkpot Award winner.
