J. Michael Barrier

Michael J. Barrier is an American animation historian, author, and critic, best known for his extensive research on the history of American animation and comic art. He is the author of Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age (1999) and The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney (2007). Barrier was also the founding editor of Funnyworld, one of the first serious publications dedicated to comics and animation history.

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