# Animato!

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{{Short description|English magazine dedicated to animation}}
{{Other uses|Animato (disambiguation)}}
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|founder  = Michael A. Ventrella
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'''''Animato!''''' was a magazine that was dedicated to animation, generally viewed by animation fans as a successor to [Michael Barrier's](/source/Michael_Barrier_(historian)) 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](/source/Rock_%26_Rule)'' as its first cover.{{citation needed|date=November 2015}} [Harry McCracken](/source/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](/source/List_of_film_periodicals)

==References==
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