Garen Ewing wishes the FPI Blog log a happy birthday (the mother of all British comics blogs turned 5 last week), and brings back this one-page ad he did in 2007 for FPI. A full sized version can be found on Garen’s blog.
The wonderful Ger Apeldoorn has collected some equally wonderful, classic horror ads for Eveready batteries from the 1950’s. Most of them are in black and white from microfilm, but this one is in glorious color.
Appartently Michael Kupperman had an Adult Swim pilot for an live-and-animation show featuring his characters Snake And Bacon. The series was not picked up, though – probably to weird, even for Adult Swim.
(via Mike Lynch)
Douglas Coupland’s new book, Generation A, is currently being pimped by Crush/Toronto with three short online clips, each focusing on a particular aspect of the novel. One of them, The Tragic Death of the Channel 3 News Team, is particularly interesting as it combines animation with typical elements of comics narration.
(via Adrants, which also gives an overview of the other ads)
Panique Au Village (A Town Called Panic), one of the best (or at least, one of the most surreal) animated children’s series to grace the little screen in the past decade, is back this year with a feature-length film. For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of meeting the Panique cast, including the Farmer, the Cowboy, the Indian and the Horse, check out the teaser above. And if you don’t have enough, here’s Le Grand Sommeil, their version of The Big Sleep.
This is the new animation by Chris Ware as presented on the This American Life live event last week. I’d heard Ira Glass mention this on his podcast, but I hadn’t actually seen it yet. I like it even better than the previous ones, but then I’m a sucker for Quimby.
(thanks to Joyville)
Another beautiful animated clip, this time by James Jarvis and Richard Kenworthy for Nike. I’m not turning this into a video blog, but when it’s good, it’s good.
(via Smelly Cat)
I like Scrabble. And I absolutely love this animated short, made by Ogilvy as part of a new promotion campaign for the best word game in the world.
(via Viral Monitor – don’t forget to visit the short’s Youtube page, as there are two more shorts in the campaign)
Big news in the Belgian daily De Standaard : everybody’s favorite all-american disfunctional youngster Bart Simpson turns out to be a Tintin fan. In the episode In the name of the grandfather, the Simpson family takes a trip through Europe, and is greatly impressed by the beauty of Ireland. “It’s whole lot prettier than Belgium”, Bart says. His mother, Marge berates him: ‘If you hate Belgium so much, then I might as well take away your Tintin albums. ” Bart looks terrified and clings his copy of The crab with the golden claws to his chest. Neat !
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