This is a bit of a stretch for my tastes, but I like the way Codehunters doesn't look like run-of-the-mill CG animation. They shoot for a mix of the Kill Bill animation, Tank Girl, and a little Miyazaki, and I think they did just fine.






Comes out a little too serious/narcissistic/self-important for me, but what the heck.. don't cost you nothing to go look at it, does it?

Thank, or blame, Drawn for this one.

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Further proof that the world is getting better every day: you can now get 5 DVDs of sci-fi serials for a fistful of dollars. If you are a fan of unhinged, exciting, imaginative drama from the days before clichés were invented, this is your collection.

God knows where, though... I found this used in Boston; it's hard to track down online, unless you're in the UK or something, but worth the chase.



Gene Autry battles the robots from the center of the ever-lovin Earth, in 1935, and you are there!!!

Usually, I say lounge music is like a beautiful woman: one man's treasure is another man's "barf bag."

And yet, strangely, I have to agree with Xtabay that this may be the best lounge recording ever committed to vinyl.

Try it, and hear for yourself.

The Kirby Museum is not as much fun as the Kirby monster blog*, but it is bigger and has zillions of Kirbescent particles floating around.

More Kirby, by the way, is better.









*handy-dandy link is available in the lefthand column in this blog, whenever you need it!

Very excited about the new boxing movie...
Rocky Took A Lover is probably the best work Sylvester Stallone has done since... oh wait, this is something else. My apologies.

For anyone else counting the days until Studio AKA makes some sort of spooky, delirious followup to Jojo in the Stars... please succour yourself with this! Worth watching if only for the constellation-people strolling about. Wow!

God bless hydrocephalicbunny. Still mackin'!!!

I am always raving about free stuff on the web. There is an amazing amount of stuff wot is better than anything I could get my hands on growing up in the 80s, that is now to be had for free... if you know where to look. It's sort of the raison d'être for the AFATECS blog, really (since I so seldom work on my own comic).

It is with great fanfare, then, that I allow that I blew some money on something. Just got vols 1&2 of Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier, and I would gladly buy it all over again. This guy kills me with his writing, and sends me completely with his updated-1940s-style art. Truly a comix powerhouse.

As is usual for my comix recommendations, this is not hot-off-the-press (it's from 2004). I never really go into comix stores, so I'm out of the loop. But if I have somehow found out about M. Cooke before you, please go drop a couple bucks at Amazon and start reading. Really top-drawer material!

Got a camera, some talented chums, and a mess of flashlights? Then you can make the Pikapika Lightning Doodle Movie. It's that easy.

Tochka looks a barrel of Japanese snow monkeys if you ask me. My kind of folks.

Thanks fousdanim people!

Forget everything else I said - - watch this thing instead: Minuscule from Futurikon...

What a masterpiece! I'll take timing and foley work like this over dialogue, any day.

Check out the post at cartoon brew for more tasty info.

bens room

My daughter was asking, so I put this together: this is what my room looked like in 1974. Except the Star Wars stuff, which must have been later. OK, 1978.

(You have to click on it to engorge it. It looks less crappy engorged. [No... no, actually it doesn't.])

There are dreams there, too, of the trap door to a tiny house where I could get away from my parents. And of me, floating at the treetops. That's how I remember my room.

If anything looks familiar, please note this time portal to the early 80s and let me know what works for y'all.

Plus, check the wikipedia entry on Creature Double Feature.

Umm, please?

Spent much time around real hippies? I have... it gets old.

Still, some of these grooved-out geezers have interesting ideas left over from whenever they were still functional. Like Obi-Wan's eerie imitation of a Sand Person.

This here collection of homemade instruments is a good example: looks like fun, don't it?

Do me a favor, tho, and don't go tuning in or dropping out or whatever. Just make more instruments!