Not being an Apple TV subscriber, this is a Peanuts documentary I won’t be able to watch, at least not for a while.
Category: Cartooning
Jetsong
Drew Carey played this yesterday on his Friday Night Freak-Out.
The Jetsons looks super-duper on my cheap-o video projector setup in the living room. Here’s a clip with a classic example of “Cartoon Physics.”
Emerald City Blues
Good, Aged Charlie Brown
The Charles M. Schulz Museum has obtained a few more originals from a proposed strip by Sparky that didn’t take off. They were even drawn on paper with pre-printed Peanuts panels. Click to enlarge to full size, and you can see that the original India ink is much darker than the printer’s ink.
The museum has assembled the originals, and some other material, for an interesting new exhibit. More information is available from The Washington Post.
The strips were supposedly drawn by Schulz, but I’m wondering if Jim Sasseville, his assistant for the comic book stories, had a hand in producing the samples. It seems likely to me that if “Hagemeyer” had been launched, Sasseville would have worked on it, just as he did for the “It’s Only a Game” strip.
Stan ’66 – 2
More of Stan Lee explaining the Marvel Super Heroes. Incredibly, nobody seems to have known this film existed.
Post-Pandemic Punk
A teen band in Los Angeles, The Linda Lindas, have a viral video.
The girls have been signed to a small record label. They got the idea for their band from Linda Linda Linda, a 2005 Japanese movie.
Schoolgirls are the subjects of countless Japanese movies, anime, and manga. From sweet, innocent and charming, to super-powered, to graphically pornographic, girls in school uniforms are everywhere in Japanese media. I rented Linda Linda Linda back when I had a 3-disc Netflix subscription. The movie is safely at the sweet and charming end of the spectrum. The DVD is out of print, and whoever owns the rights would be smart to make the movie available online as soon as possible.
Are there cybernetic assassin schoolgirls? Of course.
A song in English by a Scottish band really is the theme to the anime series. Here’s the complete recording. It’s one of the most remarkable productions I have ever heard.