Glen Keane draws. It’s the way he communicates. It’s how he started at Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1974, how he sketched Ariel in “The Little Mermaid” and the Beast’s transformation in “Beauty ...

This slim collection of Chinese folk tale adaptations by Atangan would have made a fine first or second comic book by a newcomer, but published in a deluxe hardcover format, it collapses under the ...

The story of the archer Hou Yi goes back to at least 2000 BCE. In some versions, it is a pourquoi tale explaining how the sun and moon came to govern the day and the night. One version says that the ...

Angus and Michael Yuen-Killick, illus. by Paolo Proietti. Red Comet, $18.99 (28p) ISBN 978-1-63655-046-6 In this retelling of a Chinese folktale, an aging emperor in need of a worthy heir challenges ...

There was once a youth named Wang P’ing who went off on a trading journey, but there was a horrible storm which drove his ship against a mountain. He was seized by a bear woman and carried off by her, ...

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A version of this story about “Over the Moon” first appeared in the Oscar Nominations Preview issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. Glen Keane draws. It’s the way he communicates. It’s how he started at ...