Gene Deitch (born August 8, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American Academy-Award winning illustrator, animator and film director, based out of Prague. From 1945 to 1951 Deitch was a frequent contributor to The Record Changer, a jazz magazine. He has produced animated cartoons for studios such as UPA/Columbia Pictures (Tom Terrific), MGM (Tom and Jerry) and Paramount Pictures (Nudnik).He directed(with producer William L. Snyder )a series of made for TV shorts of Krazy Kat for King Features Television from 1962 to 1964. August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and arguably the world. ... An illustrator is a graphic artist who specializes in enhancing written text by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text. ... An animator is one who is involved in the process of animation. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Prague (Czech: Praha (IPA: ), see also other names) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form that originated around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in African American musical styles blended with Western music technique and theory. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn) film for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot (even if it is a very short one). ... The abbreviation UPA has several meanings: United Productions of America, USA-based animation studio Ukrayinska Povstanska Armia (Ukrainian Insurgent Army), a Ukrainian nationalist partisan organization during and after the World War II Uralic Phonetic Alphabet United Progressive Alliance A political coalition ruling India, as of 2005 University Preparatory Academy of... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Tom Terrific and his wonder Dog, the mighty Manfred Tom Terrific was an early animated series on American television, presented as part of the Captain Kangaroo childrens television show. ... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ... Tom and Jerry were an animated cat (Tom) and mouse (Jerry) team who formed the basis of a successful series of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) theatrical short subjects created, written and directed by animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (later of Hanna-Barbera fame). ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... Detail of a Sunday page in which Ignatz, disguised as a painting, hurls a brick at Krazy Kat, who interprets it as an expression of love. ... King Features Syndicate is a syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation; it distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to thousands of newspapers around the world. ...

Since 1968, Deitch has been the leading animation director for the Connecticut organization Weston Woods/Scholastic, adapting children's picture books. In 2004, he was awarded the "Annie" by ASIFA Hollywood for a lifetime contribution to the art of animation. 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

His sons Kim Deitch and Simon Deitch were prominent artists in the underground comix movement. Another son, Seth Deitch writes fiction, mostly for underground publications. An underground comic that Deitch contributed to. ... Mr. ...

Deitch has lived in Prague since 1961 where he works as an independent animation scenarist/director. He wrote a memoir, For the Love of Prague, based on the experience of being "the only free American in Prague during 30 years of Communism".

External links

• Gene Deitch official site
• "How to succeed in animation" - a long article by Gene Deitch
• Gene Deitch at the Internet Movie Database