Culture Vulture: Duckman

Buried in the schedule somewhere on BBC 2, I don’t know anyone who remembers this weird little piece of animation. I seem to remember seeing two series (I should wiki that maybe). Anyway — it was one of those cartoons that loosely used the sit-com as a platform from which to launch increasingly bizarre adventures [...]

Culture Vulture: Aeon Flux, The Cartoon

When it came out there was nothing out there quite like it — it was edgy, humourous, sexy and intelligent; it was a prime example of MTV hitting the nail squarely on the head. It meshed Western ideas of sci-fi with the anime aesthetic in a way no one had seen. The cartoon still seems [...]

Comicsphere: Dilbert

I don’t know if this just me but Dilbert is starting to feel like a fizzy drink that has been left out to go flat? I used to get the joke — do I still have to be an office worker to get the humour? Do I have to be having my soul crushed by [...]

television whitenoise: wacky races

I suppose as a child I was pretty lucky in that my dad’s taste in programmes pretty much matched mine and my brothers — he was into all the sci-fi stuff and the cartoons (he still plays with lego for chrissakes). Anyway — to the point, as if it is important and in any way [...]

comicsphere: small birds singing by steven appleby

In a kind of companion posting alongside Peter Blegvad’s Leviathan comes Steven Appleby’s Small Birds Singing. I used to clip both of them out fo the magazines and collect them avidly. Small Birds Singing also used absurdism to explore humanity and it had some of the best characters of a small strip of it’s nature [...]

wattoo wattoo

there sure were some weird as shit cartoons on the tv back in the day and this one of the weirdest — about this weird black and white bird. the most culturally significant contribution to animation from france in the 2oth century? maybe not, but it would be a great thing to watch with a [...]