Jerry Beck

Publisher Editor

Writer, cartoon producer and author of more than 15 books on animation history. A former studio exec with Nickelodeon and Disney; currently on the faculty at both CalArts in Valencia and Woodbury University in Burbank, California.

Articles By Jerry Beck

Atiya Henry named Executive VP of Production for Disney Branded Television

Henry will oversee all aspects of production for Disney Branded Television’s portfolio of award-winning animated and live-action programming for Disney+, Disney Jr. and Disney Channel, including titles such as “Descendants,” “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse” and “Phineas and Ferb.”

Canada’s ICON Creative Studio to Adapt Novelist Isabel Allende’s ‘Dos Palabras’ as Animated Short

Canada's largest independently owned CG animation studio announced today it will produce, in partnership with L.A. based Animation creative executive Pilar Flynn and writer Rafael Agustín, an animated short film adaptation of Isabel Allende's internationally acclaimed story “Dos Palabras."