Brenda Banks was one of the first Black women to work as an animator, with credits including “Wizards,” “The Simpsons,” and “King of the Hill.”Banks studied animation at California Institute of the Arts in the 1970s while getting her start professionally on projects including the TV movie “Clerow Wilson and the Miracle of P.S.
14” (1972) and the ABC Afterschool Special “The Magical Mystery Trip Through Little Red’s Head” (1974). Banks began working with legendary animator Ralph Bakshi on his 1977 cult classic “Wizards,” and she would work with him again on “Lord of the Rings” (1978), “American Pop” (1981), and “Fire and Ice” (1983).
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