Okay, maybe one more item that’s sort of related to Cuphead. It’s a beautifully animated Shell Oil commercial from 1940 that was shown in movie theaters. This could easily be turned into a Cuphead battle.
Category: Cartooning
World Cuphead Final
Not being a gamer myself, thanks to my offspring I have been watching Cuphead in action. Tomorrow I should be receiving The Art of Cuphead book, and this will probably be my final post on the subject.
Godot Financial
This seems to be the financial model that my former employer has been holding onto. Unfortunately it’s year ten, with no huge surge in sight.
“Godot” is the Samuel Beckett character that never appears. This is Gadot, a different sort of model.
Reinventing the Reel
The Fleischer Brothers, the Disney Brothers, and now there are Moldenhauer Brothers.
The design of the Cuphead character, as well as the action in the game, reminds me of this obscure Japanese cartoon from the 1930’s.
The Name’s Head… Cup Head
One of Kristofer Maddigan’s compositions for Cuphead, the stunning to behold video game inspired by 1930’s cartoons. This one has a James Bond feel to it.
Here’s a dose of Cuphead caffeine, as recorded live in a studio.
Sherlock’s Woke America
On my Kindle e-reader I’m progressing through a complete collection of Sherlock Holmes stories. I also have a book that reproduces all of the stories as they originally appeared in The Strand magazine, with illustrations by Sidney Paget. The first two novels, “A Study in Scarlet” and “The Sign of Four,” were published elsewhere.
Years ago, when I first read “A Study in Scarlet,” I was quite surprised that much of it is not only a Western that takes place in America, it’s a scathing portrayal of the violence associated with the early Mormons. Doyle’s interest in the United States appears again in the story I’m currently reading.
From “The Five Orange Pips,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, published November, 1891:
“Have you never — ” said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and sinking his voice — “have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?”
“I never have.” [Replied Doctor Watson]
Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. “Here it is,” said he presently:
“Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was used for political purposes, principally for the terrorizing of the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country of those who were opposed to its views.”
Would the MAGA hat crowd think that reading this story in a classroom is an example of teaching Critical Race Theory? A clever cartoon adaptation of “The Five Orange Pips” makes no mention of the KKK, but prejudice and social integration remain a theme.