Retro Thursdays! - Fantastic Planet

This week's retro movie is from 1973. An international film Fantastic Planet or La Planete Sauvage was a production by both France and Czechoslovakia.

This is a very surreal story that takes place on the planet Ygam in which humans are taken and basically treated as animals. It's a little slow to start but if you can wrap your head around it then it is definitely worth the watch!

Once again here is your Wikipedia Synopsis! Click on the image below to view the movie playlist.

And if you find this movie worthwhile you can always purchase it on Amazon:

Comic - Doug's Imaginary Friend

Here's one that was slightly inspired by Drop Dead Fred! If you've never seen that movie then go rent it now! Definitely one of my favorite childhood movies..

Google Search Story - Apt. 308 Style

So Youtube has this thing going on where you can create your own Search Story. I tried it out and it's pretty fun for a laugh. I made an Apartment 308 one but found it lacked a little commentary. So I downloaded the file, and spiced it up a bit!

In the mean time production is coming along much slower than anticipated. The last couple of weeks have been pretty busy for me. Going up and down, up and down and now car troubles. Not to say that it's at a halt but things are begining to get on track once again.

Retro Thursdays! - The Plague Dogs

This week we have a good one from 1982! Based off the book of the same name, The Plague Dogs is a very gripping tale of two dogs that have escaped an animal testing lab after being put through brutal tests. You really get a feel for what they are going through and all the trouble they must endure just to be free.

I really enjoy the animation in this movie. It's far from the typical Disney-esque animals in which they seem more human than otherwise. The animals in this film actually have all the little quirks and tendencies of the real thing and the only humanity you experience is when they speak. Definitely a must see!
Here is your usual Wikipedia synopsis. And as always you may click on the picture below to view the movie:

Once again you may find this movie on Amazon.com:

Comic - The First Apartment 308!

Hmm... Let's try and spice up these Mondays with more comics!
This is a special one because it was the first time I ever had the idea for Apartment 308. You can see that there was another character which was supposed to be a Tick. I eventually scratched him out of the whole thing and replaced him with Worm.
Click To Enlarge:

Later on I'll post up the other two Apartment 308 comics that I based my cartoons on!

Retro Thursday! - Felidae

This week we have have the 1994 film Felidae (yes the latin term for felines). This is a German animated film about...you guessed it, cats!
Directed by Michael Schaak and animated by the Trickompany animation studio, this movie is great in that it's basically a noir murder mystery involving a cat named Francis and the new neighborhood he's just moved into. So it has cats, mystery, murder, and an awesome 90's theme song to boot! Something for everybody!
Check out the full synopsis here on Wikipedia. Click on the image below to watch the movie:

Once again if you like what you see and want to purchase the film you can get it here below. It helps the creators and myself! . . . More or less haha.

One In The Morning & Still No Inspiration..

I'm actually going to go to bed. I think Friday night I'll try staying up late and do that whole "make a comic strip because my mind is totally tired" thing... Maybe.

Comics! Goth-Stick-Boy

Well, sort of...
Things have been going slowly once again. Been busy with the trials and tribulations of "real" life.
In an attempt to keep this blog updated more consistently I'm going to try and post a weekly comic! First I'll start off with some of my ancient comics that were done waaaay back yonder then newer one's after that. Do not be fooled though! These are mostly just randomly drawn out sketches that happen to have words in them. Good for a giggle or two I suppose :D
Note that I pulled these off of my old photobucket account and since I haven't been on there in ages all my images got progressively smaller and smaller...I'll try and enlarge them, hopefully they won't lose too much quality. Not that there was much there to begin with...

First one! Click to enlarge:

A little history:
I drew this back during my "goth" faze. I would go to a lot of parties and always, ALWAYS! There was at least one guy like this. Ah...2002. We survived the Y2K and it was just downhill from there...

Retro Thursdays Begin! - Hey Good Lookin'

Hmm... So let's see how long I can keep this up!

Every Thursday I'll be posting a recommended "retro" animated movie or show along with a link to the video so that you can view it! And yes, this will be called "Retro Thursdays."

Enough talk! Since my last post was about the 1982 Ralph Bakshi movie Hey Good Lookin' I thought I'd start of easy with that! Here's the Wikipedia Synopsis of the film since I'm way too lazy at the moment to write my own... 

Click on the image below to start the movie playlist:

I will try to fix broken links if and when they happen and only if the post is still relevent. Hope you all enjoy!

Also I know we live in a day and age where we can watch all this stuff for free, but if you really do enjoy these videos please support the creators by buying the film. I'll even link you to them!

Neat Article on Bakshi's Hey Good Lookin'

LINK: Inner City Hues - The saga of Hey Good Lookin’, Ralph Bakshi’s fractured masterpiece..

Bakshi is definitely one of the more interesting animators of his time. Determined to stretch animation to it's limits he always tried to incorporate real life into his works, whether it be rotoscoping, recorded audio of actual street life, or...whatever! 

This is an interesting article about "Hey Good Lookin'" a film in which Bakshi tries to blur the line between animation and real life. Click the link above and give it a read!

Original article written by Tony Best, hosted on Waxpoetics.com