Editorial

Abstract

We are always a year older than our birth year on the day of our birth. Fifteen years ago, the inaugural issue of animation: an interdisciplinary journal was delivered to our long-serving copyeditor, Jane Price, at the Sage London offices in Old Street. It was transported in a carefully arranged set of folders using the technology of that time, a far cry from today’s instant uploads and file transfers: all materials were compiled on CDs accompanied by a stack of printouts in case the data was corrupted or unreadable – not unusual in the day. The issue’s content reflected our global and interdisciplinary aims, with articles examining chronophotography, animated architecture, multiplane cinema, South Korean Animation, speculation on animation as a hybrid form, and the application of psychoanalytic theory to Japanese anime. The Editorial team included Suzanne Buchan, Bob Rehak and Angela Ndalianis, who, along with the many supporters and the initial Editorial Board members, contributed significantly to the journal’s development and launch. Fifteen years on, the journal’s editorial aims remain largely the same: