While other cartoons aimed for bright colors and smiles, Weary Willy, the sad-faced tramp, resonated deeply during the Depression. He embodied life's struggles but never surrendered. #AnimationHistory #CharacterDesign
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Happy 100th Anniversary to KoKo's Queen, released October 1, 1926 and of a handful of films featuring Max's daughter Ruth. 👑Watch the full cartoon here: tinyurl.com/42a7pm64
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Transformers: The Movie is a paradox of a film. Cynically created in the most crass, commercial way, yet bursting with creativity and artistry in nearly every frame.
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Dr. Toon nailed it: Nickelodeon never knew what it had with The Ren & Stimpy Show. They wanted something like Angry Beavers and got archetypal horror instead—which nicely leads us into October, a month I'll spend focusing on that! #AnimationHistory #RenAndStimpy
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Robbie Rist, the voice of Michelangelo in the ’90s TMNT live-action trilogy, appeared in a Red Skies season episode! He plays Carter’s martial arts nemesis, wearing a robo-exoskeleton stolen from Carter. #TMNT #AnimationHistory
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Dr. Toon argued that The Ren & Stimpy Show subconsciously processed fears surrounding AIDS, politics, and powerlessness through a show that may have intended to be the heir to Bob Clampett, but became something closer to cartoon body horror. #AnimationHistory #RenAndStimpy
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In 2001, critics still called The Ren & Stimpy Show “Tex Avery on drugs,” but Dr. Toon argued that its appeal wasn't the return to vintage animation clichés, but its pathological descent into madness, which had no precedent in animation. #AnimationHistory #RenAndStimpy
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TMNT Adventures #27 also riffs on “Which way did he go, George?” The famous catchphrase originated as a parody of Lennie Small in the 1939 film adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, popularized by Tex Avery’s 1940 Looney Tunes short Of Fox and Hounds. #AnimationHistory
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Cartoons Aren't Real, a Ren & Stimpy article from 2001, shows how the show was viewed at the time, buried under anime, Cartoon Network, and new Nick/Disney hits. Only memories, old VHS tapes, and the lingering Spumco visual stain remained. #AnimationHistory #RenAndStimpy
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On September 26, 1941, Fleischer Studios released the first cartoon in its Superman series. It was nominated for an Academy Award and named #33 on the list of 50 Greatest Cartoons Of All Time. Watch it on our YouTube Channel!
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Film Threat #16 (June 1994) argued that the Games era of Ren & Stimpy lost its heart, brain, and voice. The characters were reduced to interchangeable puppets for mean-spirited abuse, while old SpumCo gags were recycled without wit. #AnimationHistory #RenAndStimpy
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I really like this early take on Roger Rabbit. He's a lot less derivative of Bugs here. #AnimationHistory youtube.com/shorts/KuEgXBkWy…
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The Looney Tunes Show director/designer Jessica Borutski was also a Spümcø alumna. She worked on the Ren & Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon episodes Naked Beach Frenzy and Stimpy’s Pregnant at Spümcø Canada, where she was credited as an animator and layout artist. #AnimationHistory
Haven't seen Dan Vs. so I'll take your word for it. I agree some episodes could have pushed the cartooniess more, but some episodes like Casa de Calma and Point, Laser Point were full of cartooniness; Jim Smith of Spümcø even storyboarded them.
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This page reveals future story ideas from Spümcø, including (at the time) "lost" episodes. Some were never produced after Spümcø’s Nickelodeon split, but other premises were dragged out of the vault for the Games era. #AnimationHistory #RenAndStimpy
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‘CAPTAIN PLANET AND THE PLANETEERS’ — ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC ENVIRONMENTAL CARTOONS OF THE ’90s!
The franchise ran for six seasons and 113 episodes from 1990 to 1996.
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Nickelodeon dug up old SpumCo scripts for Ren & Stimpy season 3, including Stimpy’s Cartoon Show, which was reworked into a satire of John Kricfalusi instead of Nick. #AnimationHistory #RenAndStimpy
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Ren & Stimpy season 3 was three months late! “It’s the hardest cartoon to do,” said Bob Camp. “Few people can draw these characters.” #AnimationHistory #RenAndStimpy
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This issue of Wild Cartoon Kingdom put Beavis & Butt-Head on the cover, and the inside featured John Kricfalusi interviewing Mike Judge, plus some (at-the-time) brand new Ren & Stimpy news. #AnimationHistory #RenAndStimpy
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In 1978, Ruby-Spears made Fangface, their own Scooby-Doo knockoff after Joe Ruby & Ken Spears created Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! for Hanna-Barbera. Fangface merged Scooby and Shaggy into one character: a goofy werewolf hero. #AnimationHistory #HalloweenHistory #SpookySeason
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