Feedback: Jorge Garrido

My name is Jorge Garrido, I'm 18 years old. I'm a grocery clerk (currently night crew) at the Real Canadian Superstore. I can stock 90 cases in one hour. I'm currently attending Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada for a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, with which I hope to become a Chartered Accountant. I'm obsessed with OLD cartoons and comics, every since I was a kid. I want to be a cartoonist/animator, which I can hopefully practice and study in my spare time. My other interest is Christian rock and hard music. Here's my pitiful blog where I have a tons of half written posts for waiting to be finished and posted.

My favourite Archive post was Preston Blair's first edition. It's really hard to pick, though!

The Animation Archive has helped me mainly in two ways. One, the images and manuals posted give respectively visual inspiration, ideas, and artistic influence and practical advice on cartooning and composition. I want to be able to draw like Milt Canniff and Milt Gross and Milt Knight and Milt Stein and the other Milts the archive has covered. Not to mention the Walts. The images themselves help me study what these guys do and how tehy did it. The manuals show me how to do so ever better. The second way is more intangible. It's satisfying to know that there's people out there as obsessed with old cartoons and animation as me. It's also great to see that the Arhcive is saving films from being deteriorated by digitzing them, and also saving images in high resolution that owuld otherwise be forgotten to history.

The only suggestions I'd offer are more theories about the images that are presented. Also, you should do fundraisers by selling the films you have copies of on DVD. The Archive, for example, apparently has all the Popeye and colour Clampetts. I'd rather buy from the archive than from WBHV. No DVNR, no colour changing, and I could get the films in chronological order by director. Keep up the good work, Steve! You are as kind as you are wise! -Jorge Garrido

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