Unanimated

bp: 143/94

I’ve lately been reading a lot about animation, which is in some ways more enjoyable than watching it. There is a subversion of quality peculiar to the form that I find ironic. The guy who isn’t Jerry Beck on Cartoon Brew, for example, seems to be virulently critical of Home Movies and even The Simpsons, but there’s a reason why these series resonate so strongly with their audiences (they have the aura similar to the Jay Ward productions, writer-driven, or shall we say idea-driven). Whereas painstakingly beautiful but content-void animation from the smug likes of Disney has always left me very, very cold.

The trainspotting aspect to the Warner Bros. cartoons is always fun to read about.