Just when you thought that Hermain Cain’s presidential race drop-out speech quoting the Pokémon movie was the craziest shit you’ve ever seen… In Russia, Prime Minister Putin has just quoted the Jungle Book to call opposition “Bandar-log” ’cause he’s the motherfucking python! Read more »
Baltimore-based artist Sam Gibbons unleashes a hellish toon trip onto his custom-cut acrylic panels. Watch the tangle of limbs weave through jigsawed, cannibalistic orgies and loop in and out of disintegrating facial orifices of classic animation’s heroes. Gibbons’ latest series of psychedelic Roschach pieces reference the early work of Bob Clampett (Porky Pig, etc.), Tex Avery (Daffy Duck, etc.) and Charles Manson (Sharon Tate, etc.). “Directed by Kilroy,” Sam Gibbons, Dec 10 – Jan 7, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York
Back when Saturday mornings were all about watching cartoons and getting brainwashed by cereal commercials, Hanna-Barbera ruled the airwaves. They were responsible for creating some of the most iconic animated characters to ever capture the attention of children across the United States. Read more »
Yale University Press is censoring itself, backing off plans to include the controversial Muhammad cartoons from a 2005 Danish newspaper in a new academic book discussing them. The University’s security advisers believe that reprinting the widely distributed images in “The Cartoons That Shook the World” would prompt more violence and rioting. |CBC|
If Disney isn’t going to bother rewriting stuff, why should we. As this YouTube user notes: “Looks like the Disney Vault has a purpose after all – to keep us from realizing how similar our favorite classic Disney movies truly are. According to this video, Disney only ever made one movie, and they’ve been tracing it ever since.”
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