“Archer is so outrageous it’s hard to believe the show even airs. Beneath its filthiness, however, lies a recognizable anarchistic urge.”
- Charles Bock, “On Archer’s Underground Comix Roots”
Two animated adaptations of Russian masterpieces. The Master and Margarita (above) and a much longer, much darker adaptation of Crime and Punishment as well.
An animated film by Israeli author and illustrator Shulamit Serafy, based on Italo Calvino’s short story “The Distance of the Moon.” (via Brain Pickings)
To celebrate and announce the launch of the Penguin English Library, the folks behind that instantly recognizable arctic fowl colophon commissioned an animated short from Woof Wan-Bau.
Two and a half minutes from Pixar’s thirteenth feature film, Brave.
Sure, the trailer for Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Hobbit got everyone talking, but it’s so three weeks ago. Here’s something really fresh: a twelve-minute “animatic” version of The Hobbit produced by legendary animator Gene Deitch in 1966.
