This week PBS’s “American Experience” devotes four hours to a biography of Walt Disney (9 p.m. Monday and Tuesday) and there are some pretty great things about this production from director Sarah Colt ...

Art imitates life, and life imitates art, and sometimes it's hard to tell which is which. Take the little town of Marceline, Mo., a place so idyllic, so orderly, so utterly all-American that it seemed ...

Nearly 50 years after his death, Walt Disney remains a divisive figure. That 20-foot berm separating Disneyland visitors from the messy realities of the outside world might as well be the wall that ...

Most of us think of Walt Disney as the creator of Mickey Mouse and Disneyland. But his impact on American culture went beyond cartoons and theme parks. Whether it was hit television programs such as ...

Ward Kimball, the iconoclast Disney director and animator, was born on this day in 1914. And thus, it seems like a fitting day to announce that a new biography about his life and work — If It Ain’t ...

New York–based publisher ANTIBOOKCLUB is officially announcing today the acquisition of my in-depth biography of Disney animation legend Ward Kimball (1914–2002). The Ward Kimball Biography (working ...

Pop artist Keith Haring, who had long drawn and painted Mickey Mouse in his art, almost landed his dream deal with Walt Disney Studios, a new book has revealed. Gooch has revealed new information ...