Beat Vidalia is the name of this website’s author: a New Jersey-based writer with interests a lot of people on the Internet share. Animation, video games, comics and manga, etc. However, I try to highlight topics that don’t get as much widespread attention, or are misrepresented online. This tendency and fascination extends into a pet project known as The Layman’s Field Guide to Obscure Animation: a theoretical book chronicling a selection of worldwide animated series, films, and shorts that have fallen out of public consciousness. It is currently in a preliminary stage.