Mark Twain’s “Mysterious Stranger”— a Claymation Terror
Still in your jammies and slurping cereal in front of the tube? Then click through to this week’s Saturday Morning Cartoon… “The Mysterious Stranger” was a scene in the 1985 film The Adventures of Mark...
View ArticleFrankenwinnie
MAD magazine has been adapting its trademarked parody to skits on Cartoon Network. Here’s a pretty good one — “Frankenwinnie” — mashing Winnie the Pooh with Tim Burton’s film, Frankenweenie, to some...
View ArticleThe Cat With Hands by Robert Morgan
Maybe you wouldn’t call this a cartoon, but I don’t care, because you need to see this. The Cat with Hands (2001) is an awesome short film by award-winning British filmmaker Robert Morgan, mixing live...
View ArticleIt Came In Peace
This Saturday morning, let’s cartoonically commemorate the whole end of the world madness of 2012 with a cautionary tale. The animation team at Dice Productions presents: “It Came in Peace”:...
View ArticleThey Stop Cthulu (sic) Eating Ye
Here’s a goofy Saturday morning cartoon about “Narwhals” to get your spirits up for New Years. Sure, it’s more PG than my usual choices, but its creator, Mr Weebl references Lovecraftian Horror and...
View ArticleInfant Intolerable
Here’s a Saturday morning cartoon that’s both endearing and surprisingly brutal: Infant Intolerable by animator Peter J. Casey. I do not endorse child abuse, and neither should you, but…these are...
View ArticleThe Tell-Tale Heart (1953)
This 1953 animation of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic story, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, in my opinion remains the best adaptation of the story. Narrated by actor James Mason, produced by UPA…and purportedly the...
View ArticleVisdum Tooten: En Film Boot Don Hertzfeldt
This morning’s cereal is “Wisdom Teeth,” a handcrafted work of disturbing brilliance on the absurdity of the body and the insanity of pain, brought to you by the wonderfully deranged animator Don...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....