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The Striking Visual Universe --- and Limitless Creative Imagination --- of Artist William Joyce

Public Radio Tulsa | By Rich Fisher
Published June 9, 2014 at 2:13 PM CDT
Aired on Monday, June 9th.

Our guest on ST today is William Joyce, the well-known children's book author and illustrator, veteran New Yorker magazine cover artist, and all-around creative guru. Joyce's many picture books include "George Shrinks," "Dinosaur Bob," and "Santa Calls" --- and he won three Emmy Awards for his "Rolie Polie Olie" animated TV series. Joyce also developed character concepts for "Toy Story" and "A Bug's Life" --- and his own very popular animated films include "Robots" and "Meet the Robinsons." He talks with us his newest picture book --- and the apps that go with it --- on this edition of our program. Said book is a Fritz Lang-inspired "how the alphabet was created" narrative entitled "The Numberlys." Joyce also speaks about the highly successful Shreveport-based media company that he founded about five years ago, Moonbot Studios.
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Rich Fisher
Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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