Animato!

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Animato!
Categories Animation
FounderMichael A. Ventrella
FoundedSummer 1983
Final issue
Number
Spring 1999
40
Country United States
Based in Boston, Massachusetts
LanguageEnglish

Animato! was a magazine that was dedicated to animation, generally viewed by animation fans as a successor to Michael Barrier's pioneering Funnyworld and David Mruz's Mindrot/Animania. [1]

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History and profile

Animato! was first published in the summer of 1983.The magazine was founded and initially edited by Michael A. Ventrella in Boston in the early 1980s [2] and featured the film Rock & Rule as its first cover.[ citation needed ] Harry McCracken later become editor and expanded the magazine to full sized with a color cover. [1]

Ventrella later sold the rights to G. Michael Dobbs and Patrick Duquette, who began distributing through newsstands. The magazine was first published under the new ownership in 1992. [3] It ceased publication with issue #40 published in Spring 1999. [4]

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