Spoke on the phone with Sean Murphy (figmentfly) today, about the book and what direction I want to take it in. After his great work on Legend and Buckaroo Banzai, it's nice to have him on board - a good luck charm perhaps to secure an eventual DVD release as those did. =) He's set up a private wiki to plan out the book.
John Loter, a great artist who's done merchandise at Disney, has sent me some rare press clippings, including one from the Nasrudin film with a picture of Richard and Vincent Price (and a vulture) ... Price's character was still called Anwar at this point - a surprise to me. It seems like every question I have about this film gets answered, the more press clippings I find. =)
I've done a huge amount of scanning and OCRing as you know, and scanned all the artwork I found interesting in the Raggedy Ann book. My site is still down so I'm not posting any of it, but it will be sent in the mail to certain people as I build my DVD-ROM library of files. A big library dedicated to The Thief. Heh.
As far as the money situation, yes, it's bad. It's worse than it's ever been, but I'm not one to beg. I've been through tough times before - I'm usually broke! - and I've gotten through.
I thank you for your kind wishes, and it means a lot that people care.
Still, Sean is pushing and bugging me to start accepting donations too. Heh. I have put a lot of money into this project and it would be nice to still be able to send out the hundreds and hundreds of Thief DVDs that I'm sending out for free (sending out 180-ish DVDs this week alone) without worrying about how I'm gonna afford that.
I have spent well over a thousand on this project. I'll admit that. And I'll be spending a lot more.
If someone wants to contribute any amount of money to this entire project, I won't stop you!
Tygerbug @ yahoo.com is the address for paypal.
How's that?
RICHARD WILLIAMS COLLECTION:
+ The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Cut (final version coming soon!)
+ The Thief and the Cobbler workprint and DVD-ROM extras
+ The Thief Who Never Gave Up Documentary/Charge of the Light Brigade/Return of the Pink Panther
+ Raggedy Ann & Andy/A Christmas Carol
+ Arabian Knight Japanese widescreen DVD
+ The Princess and the Cobbler Australian Pan & Scan DVD (PAL)
+ Richard Williams commercials/Animating Art/I Drew Roger Rabbit
+ Rare Thief and the Cobbler pencil-camera tests/The Pink Panther Strikes Back titles/I Drew Roger Rabbit (better version)/A Christmas Carol/Arabian Knight Trailer
+ Ziggy's Gift/Ziggy Cartoons/Fred Calvert's Princess and the Cobbler: Work In Progress Version