What Does the Protagonist Want?
What do the Venture Bros. want? Todd Alcott asks and has some interesting answers.
RIP, Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy star of the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers has died at 96. Here’s an obituary and a clip.
The Imp
Daniel Raeburn’s excellent comic series, The Imp, is now available as a pdf.
48 x 61
48 vs. 61 in Rintaro and Katsushiro Otomo’s excellent bicycle racing short where the racers look kinda like Rintaro and Otomo. Also, damn fine music and possible steampunkery.
RIP, Kihachiro Kawamoto
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.”
Disconnected Viewing
I don’t have cable right now so I’m rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I’d like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them–something like when James revisited his favorite childhood books. And it’s true—he did inspire me. But […]
The Cultural Gutter 