Independent Flipbook Authors:

Ben Bazurawski:http://www.youtube.com/user/bazurawski

Scott Blake: BarCodeArt:  http://www.barcodeart.com/front_page.html

ChronOpsis Flipbooks: http://store.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?storeID=6FDHX_LIVE&&

Julia Featheringill: http://www.uncertainty-principle.com/julia/

Wiebke K. Folsch:http://www.wiebke-k-foelsch.de/

Fernanda Frick: Flipbook artist from Santiago Chile:  http://fernandafrick.etsy.com

George Griffin: http://www.geogrif.com/booklings.html

Keith Haring:http://www.imageexchange.com/featured/haring/2835.shtml

Ruth Hayes-Random Motion:http://www.randommotion.com/

Patrick Jenkins:http://home.interlog.com/~pjenkins/flipbooks.html

Claude Jobin: http://vimeo.com/2679875

Sabine Klar and Toni Weiden: Finger film publishing house
http://www.fingerfilme.de/index.html
 

Shab Levy:  http://www.gravitram.com/flip_books.htm:Everyone knows what a flip-book is, but these flip-books are special! They all feature anaglyphic 3-Dimensional images. Each page is a 3D picture and the flip-book must be viewed with anaglyph glasses which come with the flip-books. All flip-books offered here are limited editions made in very small quantities and printed on durable high quality photo paper. Just put on the glasses and flip away to see not only motion, but motion in 3D.

Tamura Shigeru: http://www.tamurashigeru.com/top.html A talented Japanese animator and flipbook artist. You might need to use Babel Fish translation program to communicate. Its well worth it.

Flip Book Stores

Flip: http://www.olga-editions.ch/fliplieuxdeventes.html
Established in Geneva, Olga editions were launched in autumn 2004 by Claude Zurcher and Richard Charrier. Our publications are distributed in bookstores in Switzerland, France and Belgium. The originality of our collection, consisting of eight titles and distributed under the name "Flip", based on the relationship between a sequence of images

Fliptomania: \http://www.fliptomania.com/index.php
Mark Weissberg  founder of Fliptomania,--dedicated to keep the
medium alive.

Heeza: http://www.heeza.fr/BOUTIK/Flips/Flips6.html
An amazing collection of flipbooks (folioscope) and animation art from around the world. Pierre-Francois Maquaire is the owner.

Lendroit Gallery: http://www.flipbooks2007.com/index.php?id=1
From January 20th to April 22nd 2007, LENDROIT Gallery organized the first ever flipbooks exhibition in France.  10,000 people visited the show, which included the largest flipbooks collection in the world, owned by Pascal Fousche .

NAPA GALLERY & SHOP : http://www.napabooks.com/
The 1st International Napa Flip Book Competition was organized by Napa Books in October 2008. We received books from participants all over the world; Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, USA, Canada, Italy, Czech Republic etc. All these competition entrys will be shown in this exhibition at Napa galleria.
NAPA GALLERY & SHOP
EERIKINKATU 18
HELSINKI FINLAND

Optical toys: http://www.opticaltoys.com/
Andy Voda creates a web store for many optical toys including a nice collection of unique and 'new' antiquarian flip books..

Printed Matter, Inc: .http://printedmatter.org/catalogue/flip.cfm?email=&cookie1=4980426.4
is the world's largest non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of publications made by artists. Founded as a for-profit alternative arts space in 1976 by artists and artworkers

Shacks: http://schacks.com/
A German flipbook (daumenkino) seller. This store has been around for decades.

Flip Book CompaniesCo

A Little Scene Flip Books: www.alittlescene.com
A Little Scene Flip Books is the latest trend in creating personalized flip book party favors at events, weddings, and parties. The flip books are the perfect addition to wedding receptions, corporate parties, proms and dances, birthday parties, holiday parties, Bar Mitzvahs and Bat Mitzvahs, wedding party favors, and even convention/expo booth

Flip Book History

The History of flip Books: http://www.flipbook.info/index_en.php
:A wonderful research site on the history of the flip book can be found at  Pascal Fouche's website. Pascal is not only a historian in this field, but he has amassed a collection of over 4240  flip books (and increasing by the hour) .  A website entirely devoted to an art form half way between book and movie.

Jack & Beverly's Optical Toys: http://brightbytes.com/collection/flipbooks.html
A collection of books and optical items  along  with an evolution of the flip book.

Flip Book Courses

 Flip Books 'Out There'

Flip books on line: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlHNiIvwq_g&mode=related&search= Flip books on line

Post-It Theater: http://www.bigempire.com/postittheater/
Mark Sinclair is captain of Post-It Theater. These movies are all hand-drawn on Post-itÆ brand notes and scanned. No computer simulated the action. Be sure to check in every week for a new feature, and don't forget to take a look at the rest of the Big Empire.

International Artist's Book Triennial Vil'lius 20
5th International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius 20
Theme: "Text";Deadline: 2008;Time and Place: May 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania;Organizer: Circle "Bokartas"E-mail: vasiliunask(_)bokartas.lt

Daumenkino Freundehttp:  Website of the Flipbook Friends.http://www.daumenkino-freunde.de/

Benettonplay! Flipbook! is the drawing game that allows people to create simple animation and share them with the world. By the Benetton Group.
http://www.benettonplay.com/toys/flipbookdeluxe/info.php

Collecting Flipbooks

Collecting flip books is one of the smartest hobbies you can get into.  Not only do you collect the cartoons you grew up with, but also you get the moving image and scene along with it.  Because the books are small, you can build up a vast collection using just one bookshelf.

Right now, millions of people are collecting special ‘rare’ US State Quarters. There are 1,346,624,000 Connecticut coins.  465,200,000 Iowa coins. How many decades will it take these coins to become rare? Flip books have not been tapped yet by hobbyists. Most antique store owners are not aware of the term “flipbook” unless you mention  “those little Disney books”.  However, Disney is a small part of the flip book arena. There are Advertising flipbooks, Biography flips,  Greeting cards flips, Art flip books, “How to” flips, Antique flick books, Sexually themed flips, Sports books, Story flipbooks, Movie book promotions and so on...

With the arrival of EBAY, they are now available from around the world.  These vintage books are so rare; there are no price guides on flipbooks yet. The time is right- the prices are low, and the selection is high.

Some search names to get you started.
Flip book
Flipbook,
Flick book
Flicker Book
Kinetograph
Fingertip Movies
Feuilleteurs
Folioskop
Flipz
Topps Flip
Disney flip
mini movies
midgette movie
Abblatterbucher
Taschenkino
Daumenkino
pocket cinema
thumb cinema ! 

How to buy an Authentic book

Beware of the seller who steers you away from the
book facts.  This a tiny moving book from the days before movies... 
Consider this a red flag or a nice descriptive seller.

Watch out for 'sellers' offering a great deal.
They might display a photo of a rare 1934 Babe Ruth Flip book,
slip the word "p32" (page 32) in the description.
Then mix it in with several abbreviations. But, you bought yourself one card.

    Babe Ruth 1935 Quaker Oats  p32 / Graded AAA (American Authentication   Association)NM-Mt8.

Be sure you are aware of the alternate term of flip book.That is: One story on the front, one story on the back.
  
     Lalia & Reca  by E C Tibbs SF 2 Novel FLIP-BOOK

    Comic Book Artist #2/After the Egg #2 Flip Book

"Flip it" books usually have a tiny flip animation in the upper
right corner of the page.
 
    VINTAGE 1975 Disney FLIP IT CARTOON BOOK, Donald Duck1

Be sure you are not buying the packaging of a flip book. 

    1967 Topps Monkees Flip Movies Wax Pack -

"FLIP-O-VISION" used to advertise in magazines. Don't buy the ad.

   Authentic Vintage JACKIE ROBINSON 1940's Sylvan Sweets CO.
   "FLIP-O-VISION" POCKET TELEVISION THEATER BASEBALL CARD.
 

Check the selling history of the book seller on ebay. Look for a large number of sales and at least 98% positive score. Read negative comments if you have doubts.

Happy Flippin'

Matt Pollard
Thumb Cinema