Arts & Culture

How to explore Arts & Culture

This editorial collection follows Arts & Culture across distinct historical events instead of treating the category as a single undifferentiated timeline.

A useful reading path starts with “How did Ub Iwerks create the first color sound cartoon?”, continues with “Why Did So Many Publishers Turn Down Frank Herbert's Dune?”, and then compares “How Did the Kyoto Animation Arson Attack Unfold?”.

1. How did Ub Iwerks create the first color sound cartoon? — On August 16, 1930, Ub Iwerks released Fiddlesticks, the first color sound cartoon.
2. Why Did So Many Publishers Turn Down Frank Herbert's Dune? — Frank Herbert's Dune reached bookstores on August 1, 1965, after more than twenty publishers said no. Chilton Books…
3. How Did the Kyoto Animation Arson Attack Unfold? — On July 18, 2019, an arson attack at Kyoto Animation Studio 1 killed 36 people and devastated one of Japan's leading…