Announcing XENOVISION LIVE! The web cast – it’s all about XENOVISION this week, the company formed by Phil’s brother, Paul Hartmann that will be producing two of Phil’s animated characters – The Secret World of Edgar Screw Head and YOGI AND THE KID. Learn about all our projects and chat with TEAM XENO every Monday at 7pm Pacific/9 Central.
XENOVISION LIVE!
Posted at December 4, 2010 @ 2:55 am by edgar-screwhead in Animation, Edgar Screwhead, Phil Hartman, Television
How Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures Amped Up Animation
Posted at October 6, 2010 @ 7:04 am by edgar-screwhead in Animation, Television
By Scott Thill
INNOVATIVE AND FIERCELY independent animation pioneers Ralph Bakshi and John Kricfalusi skewed television surreal with Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, a 1987 show that expired in a hail of controversy after just a year. But its lasting impact on later bizarro toons like Kricfalusi’s Ren and Stimpy, South Park and even Spongebob Squarepantshas secured the series’ place in animation history.
“If not for Ralph Bakshi, the ‘creator-driven’ [animation] revolution of the ’90s would probably never have happened,” the busy Kricfalusi told Wired.com in an e-mail interview. “Everyone credits Ren and Stimpy for drastically changing the way kid cartoons were made, but it really started two years earlier with Mighty Mouse.”
The show’s uncanny ability to mash madcap action and lunatic laughs into a stew of mature and juvenile humor that tickled the brains of kids and adults alike caught on quickly. The end result: Crappy ’80s animation got a serious upgrade. A DVD collection of the short-lived but influential show hits stores Tuesday.
Read More: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/01/mighty-mouse-new-adventures