Cat. #000652122: TIM BURTON

Bold black felt-tip pen signature on a 3x5-inch white card, acquired in-person by a longtime and much-trusted autograph hound. In very good condition and ideal for matting with a favorite photograph. It's no surprise that director Tim Burton spent his formative years glued to the tube, watching old cartoons and horror flicks, which would help form the deliciously ghoulish and artfully warped sensibility of his later work. After abandoning an animation career at Disney Studios, where he found himself "incapable of drawing cute little foxes" and drew ire from higher-ups for spending time and resources on personal projects like the shorts "Frankenweenie" and "Vincent" (a tribute to his idol Vincent Price), he teemed up with actor Paul Reubens to create the deranged comedy Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985). The Looney Tunes-inspired live-action flick proved one of Warner Brothers' biggest hits of the 1980s and the rest was history: Burton was given big budgets and a free hand to create visual