1st Edition
Watch Me Jumpstart Strutting and Stumbling Through Animation
Introduction
1. Getting in Tune
2. Summer Days
3. Strutting, Skulking and Stumbling (1995-2000)
4. Changing of the Guards: From NAC to ByTowne, from SAFO to TAC (2000-2026)
5. Mix Tapes, Andy Kaufman, and the Joy of Disorder
6. Between Fact and Fiction: Writing Animation
7. What’s Different When Everything Is the Same?
8. The Animation Pimp’s Revised Guide to Festival Submissions
9. A Salty Salute: A Mixtape of Shorts from 35 Years
10. Bonus Track
Bibliography
Biography
Chris Robinson is a Canadian writer and the Artistic Director of the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF). A leading figure in the animation world, Robinson has received several prestigious honours, including the Animafest Zagreb Award for Outstanding Contribution to Animation Studies (2020) and the Prix René Jodoin (2022) for his contributions to Canadian animation. Widely regarded as “one of the most stylistically original and provocative experts in the history of animation,” Robinson’s influence extends across writing, curation, and film.
He first gained attention through his eclectic and influential magazine column, Animation Pimp, which was later adapted into a book of the same name. His most recent animation writing includes Earmarked for Collision, the first ever history of collage animation. His other animation books include Dreaming a way (of) Life, a book about the legendary collage filmmaker, Lewis Klahr, and Raw Outrage: The Films of Phil Mulloy.
In addition to his writing on animation, he also wrote the award‑winning animated short, Lipsett Diaries (2010), directed by Theodore Ushev. He recently completed the illustrated novel My Balls Are Killing Me with artist Andreas Hykade and wrote the script for the live action feature, Idling, directed by Theodore Ushev.
