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Please pass the ketchup, I think it's going to rain
Jan 4 • 16 tweets • 9 min read
Fantagraphics & Georgetown Records Birthday trip report (this is an old pic, the weather sucked) 🧵 Image First of all, in a nice bit of synchronicity I've just gotten into The Roches & was going to check for Roches records at Georgetown & whaddya know, they were playing this album when I got there! (did not buy though) Image
Dec 1, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
It seems like a cost-efficient way to create quality "adult animation" in America would be for talented animators like this guy to just be let loose with clips from popular podcasters - of course YouTubers have allowed this for years, but I think only "The Ricky Gervais Show" has tried to do it for broadcast TV - it eliminates the expenses of the writing/development process, much like Reality TV did - but this would be for a good cause, because it would be an alternative to hack cartoon writers coming up with the umpteenth Adult Cartoon Sitcom. The biggest problem, though, is that popular podcasters need to have the good taste to want the animation to be more expressive than Family Guy (which to them might be more "professional" looking) - to check their egos & trust the animation won't "overshadow" them. I think the latter is the biggest reason why animated series created by comedians, like "F For Family," have really stiff art & animation - whereas you can imagine some talented animator having a lot of fun with Bill Burr clips if they were just allowed to go nuts. "The Ricky Gervais Show" had a similar problem - you can tell he wanted it to look "cartoony" but the animation direction was still really conservative; just a bunch of pre-approved expressions, nothing "off-model," no creativity. Sven Stoffels' Chip Chipperson Podacast clips are good example of doing this concept justice - it's limited animation but hey, look at that - limited animation doesn't have to mean bland drawings

Nov 30, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In the future, more American animation will inhabit an uncanny valley where producers want their final product to look like both anime (because that's hip) & Disney (because that's "quality") without understanding the visual appeal of either There have already been rumblings of this over the years of course Image
Nov 27, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
HRT access for kids is the ultimate filter in my view for who is off their rocker - we're not doing this anymore. Time's up. Some of you guys are following this nut - sorry, but this is the only real filter anymore, because if you started buying into this ten years ago, & you weren't some impressionable teen but an actual grown adult already? You'll believe anything, & you probably have since then
Nov 1, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is bizarre from a guy who brags about starting the first "Gay-Straight Alliance" club at the high school where he taught

Unless, y'know, he's actually a self-hating gay man who's been in the closet his entire life, because he was born in 1964. Then it makes perfect sense "Hehe, Michigan knows that word" = "I grew up in the Midwest & it was still the 1970s when I realized I liked other boys. Letting BLM burn down your cities gives me some small measure of revenge"
Oct 26, 2024 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
If they’re a good artist, I’ll keep following a cartoonist on here even after they tro0n out, but I gotta draw the line when they start drawing themselves as their new gender, it’s just too sad. Have to suspect there’s few cartroonists who don’t draw themselves afterwards, either Getting some predictable replies for this one. It’s like John k respecter days all over again
Sep 22, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The JOhnKER: did you ever finish a cartoon on schedule by the pale moon light? We mustn’t compare ourselves to regular people. We’re cartoonists
Sep 3, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“You can have some good animation, as a joke” part 58 Interview with the directors:

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Aug 20, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The difference is that gender (which the meme conflates with biology) is literally just “vibes.” To the extent it can be studied, it’s all psychology. But that could imply the whole obsession is subjective & narcissistic One day you feel like a "man." The next day you feel like a "woman." You say both these feelings are valid. Okay, fine, but what does that have to do with me? Oh, you want to re-order society around your shifting vibes? & encourage that same self-obsession among children? Cool
Jul 21, 2024 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Here's the last batch of saucy Hate panels - mostly Buddy & Lisa orgasming

Be sure to check out my video series on Peter Bagge's Hate if you haven't already - link in bio for my YT channel, parts 1 & 2 now available!



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Jul 21, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Still more Hate panels too hot for YouTube! (Part 3) 🧵

Second part of my "Gen-X Hate Revisited" series is now available! (channel link in bio)



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Jul 20, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
More panels too spicy for my YouTube series about Peter Bagge's "Hate" (Channel link in bio! Second part now available!)

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Jul 20, 2024 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
"Hate" panels that were too spicy to feature in my video essay series (link in bio)

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Jun 29, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Instead of Beanmouth what if we called this the “thumbnail” art style because the whole point seems to be making storyboards easier to grind out & even double as layouts Seriously there’s barely any difference between that thumbnail drawing which I assume is from a storyboard, and a finished drawing on the show. All it needs is digital ink & paint
May 8, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Happy Birthday Bobbert Clampert, here's some full cartoons of his 🧵
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Apr 10, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
(looking at pre-2010s advertising targeted at straight young men) What was going ON advertising in the 2000s wasn't *that* different from this, but let's blame 90s edginess
Mar 6, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
There was some really comically dark & surreal artistic energy bubbling up closer to the mainstream of American culture in the early 90s, & I tend to attribute that to the mainstream influence of Tim Burton & David Lynch getting creative people exciting about just being strange. There was also a strange mood in the air culturally as the Cold War had ended & I have to assume with that sense of relief came a new sense of freedom that expressed itself artistically as well - but still tempered with Gen X cynicismImage
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Mar 4, 2024 • 24 tweets • 8 min read
This is so perfectly, awfully banal I can only assume it's real. Let's take a closer look at this warmed-over IP renewal / Roger Rabbit retread by non-cartoonists which everyone has been assuming is a terrible loss for Looney Tunes or fans of animation in general. 🧵 OH WORD???? Image
Feb 25, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It really puts American animation history in perspective to realize the action scenes in something like Dexter's Laboratory, a cartoony comedy series with limited animation, were immeasurably more dynamic & exciting for having cartoonists & animators in charge of them, & not this "Animators made this! It's animated! What do you meaaaaan!!" This scene was created from a script written by 2 non-artist, non-cartoonists & if you think the storyboard artist or even the director had any say about altering the content that was not how the business ran in the 80s
Feb 25, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Notice how there are no smear frames because Lou Scheimer literally thought those were animation errors Image
Feb 10, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Japanese & American animation began to diverge drastically in the 50s-60s because transitioning to the limited animation of TV, Hanna-Barbera prioritized their frames for "smoothness" to be more like Disney's standard of "quality animation" - but Japan prioritized them for action This is why boomer American animators used to make fun of anime - "It's herky-jerky, the mouths just flap around, it's fast-paced, it's spastic" - meanwhile they're prioritizing smooth walk cycles on teenagers walking from one room to the next in the latest Scooby-Doo knockoff