IDW Released May 2021

The Comic Book History of Animation #5 (2021) First Print, Cover A

The Comic Book History of Animation #5 is an issue of the The Comic Book History of Animation series from IDW, released May 12, 2021. Written by Fred Van Lente with artwork by Ryan Dunlavey. This page represents the regular first-print Cover A edition. Separate pages are available for the 1 incentive, retailer-exclusive and later-printing variant cover.

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Published May 2021
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In this issue: ANIME! ANIME! ANIME! How Japan conquered the world with a multipronged assault of giant robots, psychic bikers, and sailor moons! But Japan's greatest animator, Hayao Miyazaki rejects fantasies of power-and teaches everyone how to appreciate the power of fantasy! Also: Everyone remembers the smash-hit Pixar Image Computer that was in every household throughout the 1980s, right? No? Oh, right. It was a huge failure. But maybe you heard of the ground-breaking animation studio it spawned instead?