Animato!

{{Short description|English magazine dedicated to animation}} {{Other uses|Animato (disambiguation)}} {{More citations needed|date=October 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine |image_file = |image_size = |image_caption= |editor = |editor_title = | founded = Summer 1983 |frequency = |founder = Michael A. Ventrella |category = Animation |company = |publisher = |firstdate = |country = United States |based = Boston, Massachusetts |language = English |finaldate = Spring 1999 |finalnumber = 40 |issn = }}

'''''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''.<ref name=anim>{{cite web|url=http://jimhillmedia.com/alumni1/b/jim_korkis/archive/2003/07/11/1081.aspx|author=Jim Korkis|work=JimHillMedia.com|title=Apatoons: The Birth of Animation Fandom| date=July 10, 2002|access-date=November 25, 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150927084656/http://jimhillmedia.com/alumni1/b/jim_korkis/archive/2003/07/11/1081.aspx|archive-date=September 27, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

==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<ref>{{cite web|title=About|url=http://michaelaventrella.com/bio/|work=michaelaventrella.com|access-date=February 23, 2016}}</ref> and featured the film ''Rock & Rule'' as its first cover.{{citation needed|date=November 2015}} Harry McCracken later become editor and expanded the magazine to full sized with a color cover.<ref name=anim/>

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.<ref>{{cite book|author=G. Michael Dobbs|title=Escape! How Animation Broke into the Mainstream in the 1990s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P7tTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT17|access-date=May 5, 2020|publisher=BearManor Media|date=2006|page=17|id=GGKEY:KUJNQ2L9P91}}</ref> It ceased publication with issue #40 published in Spring 1999.<ref>{{cite web|author=David Kilmer|url=http://www.awn.com/news/books/disneys-illusion-life-tops-best-animation-books-poll|title=Disney's 'Illusion of Life' tops best animation books poll|publisher=Animation World Network|date=September 28, 1999|access-date=October 15, 2009|archive-date=November 25, 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151125220757/http://www.awn.com/news/disneys-illusion-life-tops-best-animation-books-poll|url-status=live}}</ref>

==External links== * [https://archive.org/details/animato_201912 Animato issues at the Internet Archive]

==See also== * List of film periodicals

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Animation fandom Category:Defunct animation magazines published in the United States Category:1984 establishments in Massachusetts Category:1999 disestablishments in Massachusetts Category:Magazines established in 1984 Category:Magazines disestablished in 1999 Category:Defunct magazines published in Boston