Charles Solomon (animation historian)

Solomon attended University of California Los Angeles for his bachelor's and master's degrees in European cultural history.[3]

Enchanted Drawings, Solomon's 1989 book on the history of American animation,[4] was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was also nominated for a National Book Critics’ Circle Award (a first for a film book).[5]

Solomon has written about the subject for NPR,[1] Variety,[1] Rolling Stone[1] and The New York Times.[6]

Solomon, writing for the Los Angeles Times in 1986, listed his picks for the best animated films of the 1980s:[7]

• Crac (Frederic Back, 1981)
• Son of the White Mare (Marcell Jankovics, 1981)
• The Adventures of Mark Twain (Will Vinton, 1985)
• Anna & Bella (Borge Ring, 1985)
• The Big Snit (Richard Condie, 1985)
• The Great Mouse Detective (Burny Mattinson/John Musker/Ron Clements, 1986)

• Enchanted Drawings (1989)
• The Disney That Never Was (1995)[8]
• The Prince of Egypt: A New Vision in Animation (1998)[9]
• The Art of Toy Story 3 (2010)
• The Art of Frozen (2013)[10]
• The Art of the Disney Golden Books (2014)
• Tale as Old as Time (2017)[11]
• Walt Disney's Nine Old Men (2018)[12]
• The Disney Princess: A Celebration of Art & Creativity (2020)[3]
• The Art of Wolfwalkers (2020)[13]
• The Art of Mamoru Hosoda: The Man Who Leapt Through Film (2023)[14][15]

• IMDb
• Articles by Solomon on Animation Scoop
• Articles by Solomon on Animation Magazine