The British Cartoon Archive (BCA) is dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years.
Use this list as a starting point for research on zines and as an introduction to major zine collections. It will help you locate zines and materials about creating them in other libraries and online databases.
The Animation Practice collection on Bloomsbury Visual Arts huboffers a comprehensive selection of 53 practice-focused titles from the CRC Press imprint and Routledge. It encompasses both traditional techniques and technical skills, covering pre-production, production, and post-production techniques - from sketching, storyboarding, and directing a story, to character design, rigging, and lighting.
Discover classic texts such as Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Walt Stanchfield, and Directing the Story by Frances Glebas.
It is important to use good quality images in your work. This means not only high resolution but good provenance. This refers to the source of the image. Is there accurate, authoritative information about the object? For example:
Instagram and Pinterest have lots of images, but information about the pictures is often very sketchy. Try to use good quality books, museums, galleries and archives or their websites.
These are links to some good quality sources of images:
The world’s leading museum of art and design
Art gallery in London that houses a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people
Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art.
Art gallery within the Southbank Centre
London’s leading space for contemporary culture
National art museum in Trafalgar Square
Art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London
London-based contemporary art gallery representing around fifty established and emerging international artists.
The London Transport Museum (LTM) is a transport museum based in Covent Garden, London. The museum predominantly hosts exhibits relating to the heritage of London's transport, as well as conserving and explaining the history of it.
Public art gallery in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
One of the world's leading contemporary art galleries, White Cube has spaces in London, Hong Kong, Paris, New York and West Palm Beach
Free contemporary art gallery in London's Kensington gardens