Animato! was a magazine that was dedicated to animation, generally viewed by animation fans as a successor to Michael Barrier's pioneering Funnyworld and David Mruz's Mindrot/Animania.^[1]

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Animato! was first published in the summer of 1983.The magazine was founded and initially edited by Michael A. Ventrella in Boston in the early 1980s^[2] and featured the film Rock & Rule as its first cover.^{[citation needed]} Harry McCracken later become editor and expanded the magazine to full sized with a color cover.^[1]

Ventrella later sold the rights to G. Michael Dobbs and Patrick Duquette, who began distributing through newsstands. The magazine was first published under the new ownership in 1992.^[3] It ceased publication with issue #40 published in Spring 1999.^[4]

• Animato issues at the Internet Archive

• List of film periodicals