When a dog dies, yours does too, all over again, because all dogs are a shared memory. When a dog dies, every other dog must live longer to make up for it. When a dog dies, you wish you had learned to howl when you had the chance.
Mihaela Mihailova
Mihaela Mihailova is an animation studies scholar, researcher, and educator at San Francisco State University. Her edited volume, Coraline: A Closer Look at Studio LAIKA's Stop-Motion Witchcraft (Bloomsbury, 2021), won The Norman McLaren/Evelyn Lambart Award for Best Edited Collection in Animation. She is the co-editor of Animation Studies, an open-access online peer reviewed journal dedicated to the history, theory, and aesthetics of animated media.