Ub Iwerks FTW
Ub Iwerks FTW
... ... At first sight, there was nothing special. However, one of those cartoons was no child's play because it crossed one of the sternest forbidden taboos in Chinese politics. In this cartoon, a child has just drawn a cartoon in the school journal (issue number one, May 1985). There are three tanks in a row, with one person (namely, a soldier with a gun) leading in front. On the top left corner, there is a flame just like in the Statue of Liberty. Many people will remember immediately the scene in which Wang Weilin stood in front of the tanks twenty0one years ago. This photo was almost instantly deleted from the Southern Metropolis Daily website. ...
January 27, 2010
The gay cartoonists who had the last laugh
Humour was a vital weapon in the campaigning gay press, a new exhibition of cartoon strips reveals
Joseph Galliano
... [David] Shenton and his fellow cartoonist Kate Charlesworth, 59, are mounting an exhibition, Drawn Out and Painted Pink, at the Drill Hall in Central London, of about 240 of their four-panel, line-drawn cartoon strips from the 1970s to the present day, arranged like brickwork and with the floor space filled with wry installations that comment on gay culture and history.
It includes the “Out of the Closet rail” full of joke clothes. Thus they have what Shenton calls a Rubik’s cube harness. “Harnesses were so difficult to put on, so we’ve made a complicated one with a set of instructions that are impossible to follow.” They’ve also made a three-armed, two-man rainbow-flag shirt and the “Duvet of Love” mosaic made from badges. It is typical of such playful artists that even the objects they make are cartoonish.
The show is presented like a 1980s nightclub, all black-painted walls and glitter balls. A pink stripe guides the visitor through the exhibition and functions as a timeline of landmark events for gay people.
The meat of the show is the work that both artists published in papers such as Gay News in the 1970s, Capital Gay and The Pink Paper in the 1980s and 1990s, where they (along with a small handful of fellow cartoonists such as Cath Jackson and Alison Bechdel) put everyday gay experience on the page. By default they were documenting the history of gay liberation in Britain. They turned gay people from the butt of the joke to those delivering the punch lines. ...
The gay cartoonists who had the last laugh
Humour was a vital weapon in the campaigning gay press, a new exhibition of cartoon strips reveals
Joseph Galliano
... [David] Shenton and his fellow cartoonist Kate Charlesworth, 59, are mounting an exhibition, Drawn Out and Painted Pink, at the Drill Hall in Central London, of about 240 of their four-panel, line-drawn cartoon strips from the 1970s to the present day, arranged like brickwork and with the floor space filled with wry installations that comment on gay culture and history.
It includes the “Out of the Closet rail” full of joke clothes. Thus they have what Shenton calls a Rubik’s cube harness. “Harnesses were so difficult to put on, so we’ve made a complicated one with a set of instructions that are impossible to follow.” They’ve also made a three-armed, two-man rainbow-flag shirt and the “Duvet of Love” mosaic made from badges. It is typical of such playful artists that even the objects they make are cartoonish.
The show is presented like a 1980s nightclub, all black-painted walls and glitter balls. A pink stripe guides the visitor through the exhibition and functions as a timeline of landmark events for gay people.
The meat of the show is the work that both artists published in papers such as Gay News in the 1970s, Capital Gay and The Pink Paper in the 1980s and 1990s, where they (along with a small handful of fellow cartoonists such as Cath Jackson and Alison Bechdel) put everyday gay experience on the page. By default they were documenting the history of gay liberation in Britain. They turned gay people from the butt of the joke to those delivering the punch lines. ...
Mike Thompson - Detroit Free Press
12 January 2009
Go away, Palin!
Mike Thompson - Detroit Free Press
12 January 2009
"sarah who?" indeed, dear Redway420.
My bundle's on Bugs, mate.
Plus a change, plus a mme chose, mes chers.
The Wonketteers have been known to get a drinking game going: drinking whenever someone uses the word "change" during a debate. Such games are understandably very brief, since liver failure is possible.
PS Friends don't let friends vote rethuglican.
The Wonketteers have been known to get a drinking game going: drinking whenever someone uses the word "change" during a debate. Such games are understandably very brief, since liver failure is possible.
PS Friends don't let friends vote rethuglican.
The Times
January 19, 2007
Disney-Dali premiere is 60 years late
Dalya Alberge
An unfinished film made by Walt Disney and Salvador Dal is to receive its British premiere this summer after its completion six decades later.
Their collaboration was a surrealist dream come true, but financial problems after the war forced the studio to close down work on the production.
Destino, a six-minute animated cartoon that shows a woman dancing through surreal scenery inspired by some of Dal's most iconic imagery, will be screened at Tate Modern in London.
It has been reconstructed from more than 100 storyboards, drawings and paintings that were created over nine months in 1945 and 1946. ...
Dali + disney = Compagnons au lit tranges, n'est-ce pas, mes chers?
Wish I could hie me to th' Tate Gallery!
January 19, 2007
Disney-Dali premiere is 60 years late
Dalya Alberge
An unfinished film made by Walt Disney and Salvador Dal is to receive its British premiere this summer after its completion six decades later.
Their collaboration was a surrealist dream come true, but financial problems after the war forced the studio to close down work on the production.
Destino, a six-minute animated cartoon that shows a woman dancing through surreal scenery inspired by some of Dal's most iconic imagery, will be screened at Tate Modern in London.
It has been reconstructed from more than 100 storyboards, drawings and paintings that were created over nine months in 1945 and 1946. ...
Dali + disney = Compagnons au lit tranges, n'est-ce pas, mes chers?
Wish I could hie me to th' Tate Gallery!
Joe Barbera, creator of cartoon classics, dies at 95
Partnership with Hanna lasted more than 60 years
Tom and Jerry won duo seven Academy Awards
Lee Glendinning
Tuesday December 19, 2006
The Guardian
Joe Barbera, one half of the creative duo that delighted generations...with the homicidal spats between a cat and a mouse, the ranger-baiting activities of a delinquent bear and the adventures of a ghost-hunting great dane and his pesky friends, died yesterday. He was 95.
In partnership with Bill Hanna, Barbera gave the world such classic cartoon characters as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, the Flintstones and the Jetsons. ...
Partnership with Hanna lasted more than 60 years
Tom and Jerry won duo seven Academy Awards
Lee Glendinning
Tuesday December 19, 2006
The Guardian
Joe Barbera, one half of the creative duo that delighted generations...with the homicidal spats between a cat and a mouse, the ranger-baiting activities of a delinquent bear and the adventures of a ghost-hunting great dane and his pesky friends, died yesterday. He was 95.
In partnership with Bill Hanna, Barbera gave the world such classic cartoon characters as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, the Flintstones and the Jetsons. ...
First panel of 8 November's strip.
Sound familiar, anyone?
... and then frank zappa as the pope, that was a first
[Kricfalusi: ]
"yeah frank zappa was a fan of the show, and I was a huge frank zappa fan growin up, i had all his records. and when i found out he was a fan, our mixer, one of the sound engineers, was also mixing some frank zappa records and he uh handed the phone to me one day and it was frank on the line. so frank invited me to his house that weekend. -- [other voice: "lucky bastard"] and i went with eleanor blake and frank and his family and i, moon unit and dweezil. we all sat around watching ren and stimpy cartoons all afternoon he was laughing all through them and after it was over i asked, 'hey frank, you want to BE in a cartoon?' and he said 'yeah that'd be great' and i said you want to be the pope and he said "yeah i always wanted to be the pope"
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so zappa recorded his lines in his studio
after the line "Quick man! Cling tenaciously to my buttocks!" Zappa ad-libbed the line "Both of them?" ...
Wasn't it wonderful, Zappa doing that voice! One of Kricfalusi's greatest moments.
The mighty Gary Owens did the voice of Powdered Toast Man in this and a few more episodes. I'd seen/heard him on television - mostly having to do with game shows! - all the time as a kid, so it was a riot hearing his voice coming out of Powdered Toast Man. It was great hearing him DJ when I lived near el lay in colifornyah, during the earliyest 90s, dude. My boss at the German Deli listened to wretched, foul Old-Fogies' Radio Stations, but one of 'em had dear Mr Owens. He played silly things like Patricia by Prez Prado.
[Kricfalusi: ]
"yeah frank zappa was a fan of the show, and I was a huge frank zappa fan growin up, i had all his records. and when i found out he was a fan, our mixer, one of the sound engineers, was also mixing some frank zappa records and he uh handed the phone to me one day and it was frank on the line. so frank invited me to his house that weekend. -- [other voice: "lucky bastard"] and i went with eleanor blake and frank and his family and i, moon unit and dweezil. we all sat around watching ren and stimpy cartoons all afternoon he was laughing all through them and after it was over i asked, 'hey frank, you want to BE in a cartoon?' and he said 'yeah that'd be great' and i said you want to be the pope and he said "yeah i always wanted to be the pope"
------
so zappa recorded his lines in his studio
after the line "Quick man! Cling tenaciously to my buttocks!" Zappa ad-libbed the line "Both of them?" ...
Wasn't it wonderful, Zappa doing that voice! One of Kricfalusi's greatest moments.
The mighty Gary Owens did the voice of Powdered Toast Man in this and a few more episodes. I'd seen/heard him on television - mostly having to do with game shows! - all the time as a kid, so it was a riot hearing his voice coming out of Powdered Toast Man. It was great hearing him DJ when I lived near el lay in colifornyah, during the earliyest 90s, dude. My boss at the German Deli listened to wretched, foul Old-Fogies' Radio Stations, but one of 'em had dear Mr Owens. He played silly things like Patricia by Prez Prado.
Nicked shamelessly from Sarahbliss
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Weebl and Bob. Me want pie now!
Mmmmmmmm John Krickfalusi's blog! Hie thee hence forthwith and with forth, though!
This delicious morselage was nicked from dear CaliVagabond
This delicious morselage was nicked from dear CaliVagabond
GEMINI:
Attention Gemini.
As a result of the earmuff incident, your roommate now thinks you're completely evil!
When friends call, she tells them you're out jogging... with the devil!
Plus she believes the only way to save you is by eating the meat portions of your frozen dinners.
Time to bury the hatchet...So to speak.
Delicious! Thanks yet again to Grayem!
"Freeze Frames"
Pinched from darealMOOcoy who pinched it from henrynjake
Yup. That shore is trashy!
Thoroughly tasteless and utterly hysterical.
Many thanks to darealMOOcoy.
Thoroughly tasteless and utterly hysterical.
Many thanks to darealMOOcoy.
Stolen with gratitude from imaginaryturmoil
Oink Oink! I like to be an Oink around good food!
Lone Horseman of the Apiecolypse
Dear, dear Weebl
Dear, dear Weebl
I love this one. 'Squite nawty, innit.
Iss fookin' brilliant innit
The Best Ever use of the song "Patricia" by Prez Prado!
Thoroughly tasteless and thoroughly Hysterical!!
Delicious.
Ia! Ia! Um, er, funny site.
AAAHH!!! Real Monsters sound files