It’s a sad week for animation with the passing of Satoshi Kon and now Kihachiro Kawamoto. A student of Jiri Trnka, Kawamoto created beautiful stop motion puppet animation grounded in Japanese bunraku and Noh theater. Here’s his short, “Oni / The Demon.”
LBFA Presents: The History of Aquaman Explained!
Shaft vs. Scarface, and other comics based on (mostly 80s) movies that should be.
The ever-excellent Frankensteinia looks at a time when Frankenstein’s creation roamed the fairgrounds.
Before the CIA there was The Pond, and it seems like something Warren Ellis made up: “The head of the Pond was Col. John V. Grombach, a radio producer, businessman and ex-Olympic boxer who kept a small black poodle under his desk.”
“Meanwhile… a hideous group of subversive paleocomicologists plotted plotted schemes in the dark!!” Those schemes come to fruition in panels scanned at Comically Vintage!!!
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