Racial epithets. Topless women. Speeches interrupted by blowjobs. Steve Guttenberg. Doesn’t seem like fodder for a Saturday morning cartoon show. But in the late 80s the film Police Academy, which subjected viewers to such adult situations, spawned an animated series of the same name. Running for two seasons, […]
Two items where Star Wars runs up against participatory culture: the completely awesome Animals with Lightsabers and the completely logical one-off joke The Hook.
“Reaching the inaccessible”–Book View Cafe has Ursula Le Guin’s Cat T’ai Chi cartoons.
oh, hai! Jay Dixit ponders the humanity in lolcats (and talks to The New Yorker’s cartoons editor about them): “By articulating profound feelings through cats and marine mammals speaking garbled English, we’re able to shroud genuine emotions in pseudo-irony — which means those animals can evoke deeper emotions […]
Opus the penguin goes to his final rest (last panel here). Berkeley Breathed explains why Opus needs to go. “Satire we’ll have. Rather, the real dearth in our world will be sweetness, comfort, thoughtfulness and civility.”
Peer deep inside the anatomy of cartoon characters, right to the bone, with Dia de los Muertos Looney Toons at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Michael Paulus’ osteological Hello Kitty and Peanuts drawings and Hyungkoo Lee’s rascally, Animatus sculpture. (via Boing Boing)
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The Cultural Gutter 