Previously on X-Men: The Making of an Animated Series

by Eric Lewald

Overview

In late 1992, on small budgets and under tight schedules, the cast and crew of X-MEN: The Animated Series crafted a television show that, despite an industry full of naysayers, immediately shot to #1. This "kids' show" often landed more than half the TV viewers across America, and a twenty-year gold rush of Marvel motion pictures and TV series followed. Previously on X-Men is Eric Lewald's personal, inside account of how the series got on the air, the many challenges that were overcome, and how the show prevailed. The head writer interviewed 36 of the artists, writers, voice cast, and executives who helped make this game-changing series a worldwide success. This book is an authoritative look into the creation of the animated series that nobody expected to succeed. Lewald offers a unique behind-the-scenes look at the Saturday-morning cartoon series that changed Hollywood.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940184516943
Publisher:	Jacobs Brown Media Group
Publication date:	12/04/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

ERIC LEWALD is one of the premier writer-producers in youth-oriented and animated television, with over 500 produced credits. He has been show runner on 13 series, including Exosquad, RoboCop: Alpha Commando, Beetlejuice, Mummies Alive, Street Fighter: TAS and Young Hercules, starring Oscar-nominee Ryan Gosling. Eric has been a studio executive, has helped runa world-renowned Italian motorcycle shop, and has been nominated for an Emmy award. He considers X-MEN: TAS [the animated series] his favorite job ever.

Editorial Reviews

Run—don't walk—to this party. With Previously on X-Men, Lewald has crafted the bible for X-Men: The Animated Series. If you have ever been curious about the behind-the-scenes workings of a cartoon from conception to completion, what goes into casting, ideas that worked and those that didn't—or if you were just curious where the heck all those quotes of classic literature Beast recites came from—it's all here!

Do You Even Comicbook!? - Gary Rickelman

...[T]here's no better way to celebrate it and its creators than by picking up the amazingly detailed and well crafted Previously on X-Men: The Making of an Animated Series. Again, it's not just for fans of the X-Men, but also for fans of the process.

Retrozap - Michael Harris

...[A] legit page-turner. Lewald provides the reader with a behind-the-scenes guide that is, well, juicy. It's compelling, funny, at points a little weird, and most surprisingly moving. You can feel all the love and dedication that these people put into XTAS and what a blast they had making it.

Den of Geek - Michael Mommano

...[A]n unusually candid look at how hard it is to not only create a hit show, but keep it running — sometimes even as the powers that be fight you at every turn..... and now fans will know all the work that went into making it that way.

The Hollywood Reporter - Aaron Couch

...[A] treasure trove of value for pop culture historians as well as television production nerds. Above all else, Eric delivered jaw-dropping revelations for longtime Marvel fans.

No stone was left unturned and I learned things I never could have imagined I would WANT to know!

GWW.com - Jay Sandlin