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...cremated cryogenically frozen when died?
Michael Barrier sought to answer these queries and more about the man behind Mickey Mouse in the biographical The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney (2007, University of California Press, 393 pages, U.S., $29.95). Barrier, an animation historian who founded and edited Funnyworld--the first serious publication dedicated to comics and cartoons--as well as the author of "Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age," delved deep into Disney's background to give readers a full-bodied understanding of how a Missouri farm boy with a paper route was transformed into the unlikely head of an empire. And while Barrier's work occasionally refers to Disney in less than glowing terms, The Walt Disney Company has--as it seems to always do with new books about...
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