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!
Manga Star Wars vs. Marvel Star Wars.
Travel through pop culture history a premake of Marvel’s Avengers (sneak peek of Emma Peel included), faux 1911 silent animated shorts from Red Dead Redemption and Lando Calrissian as Blackstar Warrior–a Blaxploitation film set in the Star Wars universe.
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.
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The Cultural Gutter 