Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems

Skeeter

Read [an archived version of] "Skeeter" -- a short-short "clickable" story posted to [the now defunct] Tapestry. I wrote this goofy thing by messing around on an ipad. Tapestry files were "sequential" stories. To read, click on the screen to forward page by page.
September 6, 2013Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems
Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons

The 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 first cartoon to be X-rated in Great Britain. Of course, you should also read the original story, too. *** See the full playlist of my Saturday Morning Cartoons on youtube.
February 9, 2013Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons
Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons

Infant 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 blobby organ monsters, right? On the demo real of his work (posted on his blog), Casey shares that this animation was an experiment to see how much emotion he could get out of very simple characters...and the simple story was inspired by a plane ride. Any parent or air traveller can probably empathize...
February 2, 2013Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons
Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons

It 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":     That's just a hint at their creative genius. Dice Productions has this thing about small things in big places and vice versa. You should also take a gander at their award-winning, touchingly gross full-length feature, All Consuming-Love (Man in a Cat).  
December 21, 2012Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons
Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons

The 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 action and animated wax in a very uncanny and disturbing way. Film Threat magazine called it "mandatory viewing for anyone who wants to write a horror movie. Not because of what Robert Morgan does, but because of what he doesn’t do." True. But I'd say what he does accomplish in this film is also just as brilliant. Morgan's latest film is Bobby Yeah (see review…
December 15, 2012Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons1 Comment