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Flipbook in a Paperback Novel

Flipbook in a Paperback Novel

An experiment in animation

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James Gurney
Apr 15, 2025
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It was a crazy idea. Why not put a flip book into a paperback novel?

After I designed the cover for a science fiction book Quozl by Alan Dean Foster (1989, Berkley Books), I proposed including an animated sequence inside the pages of the book. Here’s one of the drawings:

The story was about long-eared aliens called quozls that come to Earth and end up sta…

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