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You're not like the others. You like the same things I do: Wax paper. Boiled football leather. Dog breath.

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:31:25 -0800

Ren + Stimpy Production Music: 109 Instrumental Tracks!

freedom

plexi — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:31:15 -0800

On a sunny May morning, six plainclothes police officers, two uniformed policemen and a trio of functionaries from the state prosecutor's office closed in on a small apartment in Amsterdam. Their quarry: a skinny Dutch cartoonist with a rude sense of humor. Informed that he was suspected of sketching offensive drawings of Muslims and other minorities, the Dutchman surrendered without a struggle.

"I never expected the Spanish Inquisition," recalls Gregorius Nekschot, the cartoonist.

Baby's First Internet

oxford blue — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:26:13 -0800

Baby's first internet comes amidst other, less illustrated, concerns about the all-consuming 'blogosphere' and increasingly online life. The problems, it seems, are somewhat novel and (one assumes) almost endless.

Not Marvel

netbros — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:24:48 -0800

Busted Wonder ― The cartoon art of Charity Larrison and Kieron Gillen.

>BK;Q: - Butterfly

Wolfdog — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:43:01 -0800

>BK;Q: - Butterfly - is just a sweet little Russian cartoon (with subtitles) (and foxes). I seem to get a little speck of something in my eyes when I watch it for some reason.

"He makes Gozer look like little Mary Sunshine."

JHarris — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:29:57 -0800

Back in the 80s DiC produced a cartoon, aired in syndication and on ABC Saturday Mornings, called "The Real Ghostbusters." Based on the popular action-comedy movie, it more-or-less continued the adventures of Ray, Egon, Winston and ~~Garfield~~ Peter through seven seasons of supernatural shenanigans. It could have been a mere cash-in, but there was something more to it. It aspired to realism, at least as much as possible. It was story-edited by J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of Babylon 5. (He also worked on He-Man and Murder She Wrote!)
This may explain the second season episode, written by Michael Reaves and rife with Lovecraft references, in which the Ghostbusters face down the Cthulhu cult. Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

Puss puss puss

infini — Sun, 25 May 2008 08:55:20 -0800

Hello Kitty becomes Japan's ambassador to China. The little half-Japanese, half-English cat has become so globally recognisable that it is, perhaps, inevitable that the Japanese board of tourism has appointed her their official tourism ambassador to China and Hong Kong. This is not the first time the world has looked to Hello Kitty to perform an ambassadorial role; she has been United States children's ambassador for Unicef since 1983. "It seems predictable enough to have her adopted as a diplomatic envoy," she says. "That has been the way of the 'Cool Japan' bandwagon for a few years now, and relations with China are no healthier. It seems a bit farcical to select Hello Kitty, however: as if a dumbed-down cultural icon that was cool in her retro boom in the 1990s, and which Chinese teenagers dig, can somehow do something significant to alter the gnarly and difficult state of China-Japan relations."

Awesome Animation

FeldBum — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:09:14 -0800

Amazing Animations: Morphing, Graffiti, Mixed-Media, Sand (also from Ilana Yahav and Ferenc Cakó), Paint-on-film, Paint-on-glass, Pinscreen & The Greatest Stop-Motion Movie of All-Time. (Some reposting, but it's worth watching again. trust me.)

"Half-Baked Theories and Misguided Essays!"

amyms — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:58:24 -0800

The Journal of Cartoon Over-analyzations. For all your cartoon-related, obsessive and critical-thinking needs. Recent over-analyzations include Bestial Sexuality in He-Man and She-Ra, Evil Mickey Mouse and A Freudian Analysis of Beavis and Butthead. For quick fixes, check out the Mini-Analyzations.[Via].

Then What's the Other Half of the Battle?

mikoroshi — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:34:13 -0800

With the big screen bonanza imminent, let's have a go at bean-plating G.I. Joe.