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  • Whatever Happened to H.E.R.B.I.E. the Robot?!

    Well the one good thing about having your own blog is that you can shamelessly hype your own shit! In this day and age of the internet let’s face it, it’s hard to get anyone to help you get the word out there on your own projects. So as you may or may not know,…

  • Junkyard: A Truly Breathtaking Animated Short!

    Check out this animated short film that was just  released online today called “Junkyard” by Dutch animator Hisko Hulsing. It’s easily some of the most breathtaking animation I’ve seen in quite some time. Here’s the trailer: It recalls Ralph Bakshi in style by utilizing rotoscoping as in movies like The Lord of the Rings” and…

  • The Grinch’s Halloween Special Prequel?!

    Call me severely uninformed, but I just discovered today that Dr.  The Suess’ The Grinch had a holiday special before the classic “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”! Yep-The Grinch was grumpy as hell in the 1977 prequel “Halloween is Grinch Night”. Maybe this is common knowledge for most people but I had no idea the…

  • Does MC Chris Deserve His Own Cartoon TV Show?

    So a couple days ago we got a six minute teaser of the proposed MC Chris cartoon he’s been hoping would be picked up by an unsaid network. From what I understand it hasn’t happened yet and now he’s trying to get the word out there in other ways to get some sort of buzz…

  • Weird Ass Forgetten Cartoons: Disney’s Anti-Nazi Short Films?

    I recently ran across this old Disney Anti-Nazi cartoon and it’s a truly weird piece of animation! This ten minute cartoon was released on January 15th, 1943 and these cartoons actually saved Disney from going bankrupt after a low box office return for the now legendary classic Fantasia. Disney was contracted to make 32 cartoon…

  • Masks: Cool Old School Hand Drawn Animation!

    I am always on the search for cool new hand drawn animated films, to be quite honest I miss this genre a lot. I enjoy a lot of the CG animation as well but there’s really a special quality that’s missing from most of those films that just can’t be replicated from hand drawn. To…

  • Planet Hulk Movie is a No Go! Where to go with The Movie Hulk?

    I’ve just read via Ain’t it Cool News that supposedly there are NO plans to bring the Planet Hulk story to the big screen. As much as I enjoyed Planet Hulk, the idea of this being a big Hollywood blockbuster movie really didn’t excite me all that much. First I had wondered how they would…

  • Amazing Animated Short Shorts! The Hulk Runs Out of Toilet Paper!

    I just discovered three of the most kick ass animated short films yesterday, I liked them so much that I had to share them here. Now don’t get me wrong I love the new Pixar type animation, I really do, but I still have a soft spot for the old school type animated cartoons. You…

  • Yeah What DOES Nick Fury Do?! Best Video Ever!

    I love this little cartoon so much, it’s probably the funniest shit I’ve seen in quite some time! It’s pretty spot on because you know it never really seems like Nick Fury really contributes very much at the end of a battle for The Avengers at least in the movie! So check this out if…

  • Asia’s Answer to Snow White…Oh & Superman Too!

    I was watching some old cartoons today starting out with some of the awesome Max Fleischer animated Superman stuff. I hadn’t even realized that the animation was based on rotoscoping, which is essentially tracing over real actors to get the smooth real life movements into cartoon form. That explains a lot as to why those…