Cartoons

David OReilly is the Chris Ware of animation -- his work is modern, haunting and bleak. His new film "The External World" just won an Honorable Mention at Sundance -- the only cartoon to do so -- and it's 17 minutes of video game era dread, alienation. Is there redemption? FULL SCREEN.

http://www.youtube.com/v/kikA9pUAnWs&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3 Although this morning's Oscar nominations revealed a paucity of comics-themed movies -- IRON MAN 2's SPX nom being the only one for Team Comics...

Back in August we noted that the upcoming Yogi Bear movie appeared to be horror film about deviant sex, based on the perverted poster. When we finally saw the trailer in theaters, we suggested in jest that shooting the filmmakers was the only way to stop this abomination. It turns out someone had a similar idea. Except it was instead to show Booboo shooting Yogi to get a measly $5000 in blood money reward.

Do we have a new holiday classic on our hands? Just about. Tom Neely and some friends have made this 6-minute cartoon based on his Henry and Glenn characters -- any resemblance to rockers living or dead strictly coincidental, even when characters named John and Daryl show up. This will seriously make your spirits bright and metal at the same time.

Over at tropical toxic, the blog of artist twins Asaf and Tomer Hanuka, they share some concept art for an animated version of HARD APPLE, a crime series based on the work of Jerome Charyn.

Every year the producers of the best cartoon of the 21st century, The Venture Brothers, unleash a new Christmas single -- here's a handy link to all of them to date Including Venture-Aid 2006 and The Monarch singing The Christmas Song. There are rumors of a new song for 2010, but until then, enjoy the mellow sounds of Venture-mas past.

As The Beatrix, on vacation up country, deals with the new server and its delusion that it's an electronic bulletin board from 1982, I...

Landry Walker and Eric Jones' Little Gloomy, a staple of the goth comics world for years, is being adapted into a cartoon called Scary Larry. Unfortunately, as of now, it is only being seen in France:

While there may be some perception that comic book movie fever is cooling off, at least one super-epic-mega film that will change the world is in the works -- the Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson Tintin 3D-mocap-CGI epic. Spielberg is directing while Jackson produces The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, which comes out 12/23/11. The cast includes Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook, Carey Elwes and Daniel Mays, most of whom did mocap or supplied vocal talents.

Gosh! Via this probably-behind-a-firewall story from Variety, news that cult classic NAPOLEON DYNAMITE is turning toon for Fox:

http://www.youtube.com/v/DX1iplQQJTo&hl=en_GB&feature=player_embedded&version=3 INCREDIBLE.

How they developed the Epic Mickey game and why Oswald the Rabbit is so important.