Manny and Me

Description

Sebastian Shallotte is determined to be respectable. He's just graduated with the most boring degree ever - Accounting - and he's looking for something that will put his knack with numbers to use. He wants a normal, quiet life in the suburbs with a white picket fence and 2.5 kids, and the skeletons in his closet will just have to be buried very, very deeply in the back of his closet. Douglas McAlpern has never had a relationship that's lasted longer than two or three months, but while he accepts that he's just not cut out to be someone's romantic partner, he isn't about to give up on his dream of being a dad. When a family friend agrees to surrogate for him, he's finally able to hold his own child in his arms...but having a baby means that he needs to hire some help. Sebastian can't find work in his field. Douglas can't stay at home with his son. It seems like a match made in heaven, until Douglas realizes that Sebastian sets every one of his senses alight...and Sebastian's secret comes tumbling out of the woodwork. This is a steamy gay romance novel, with no cheating and a guaranteed happily ever after. Enjoy! ** Preface -- Early history. Early history of animation / Conrad Smith Winsor McCay / John Canemaker A day with J. R. Bray / John Canemaker A talk with Dick Huemer / Joe Adamson Just about Krazy / William Horrigan Miracles and dreams / E. E. Cummings -- Walt Disney. Mickey, Walt, and film criticism from Steamboat Willie to Bambi / Gregory A. Waller The making of cultural myths - Walt Disney / Robert Sklar Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs / Peter Brunette Dumbo / Michael Wilmington Vlad Tytla: Animation's Michelangelo / John Canemaker Saccharine symphony - Bambi / Manny Farber The testimony of Walter E. Disney before the House Committee on Un-American Activities -- Warner Brothers. Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising at Warner Brothers / Tom Bertino Tex Arcana: the cartoons of Tex Avery / Ronnie Scheib Chuck Jones interviewed / Joe Adamson Robert McKimson interviewed / Mark Nardone Robert Clampett / Patrick McGilligan Bugs and Daffy go to war / Susan Elizabeth Dalton A chat with Mel Blanc / Peter Stamelan -- Other studios. On Mighty Mouse / I. Klein Two premières: Disney and UPA / David Fisher An interview with John and Faith Hubley / John D. Ford Reminiscing with Walter Lantz / Danny Peary Strike at the Fleischer factory / Leslie Cabarga -- Cartoon characters. Seduced and reduced: Female animal characters in some Warner's cartoon / Sybil Delgaudio Meep-Meep! / Richard Thompson Pronoun trouble / Richard Thompson Character analysis of the Goof June 1934 / Art Babbitt Mickey and Minnie / E. M. Forster Mickey versus Popeye / William De Mille Memories of Mr. Magoo / Howard Rieder -- Cartoon today. A conversation with Bill Hanna / Eugene Slafer Cartoon, Anti-cartoon / George Griffin A talk with Ralph Bakshi / Patrick McGilligan Women and cartoon animtion or why women don't make cartoons, or do they? / Barbara Halpern Martineau The Internationl Tournée of Animation - Talking with Prescott Wright / Joan Cohen.