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Ramones, Butthole Surfers, Violent Femmes and more, covering Saturday morning cartoon theme songs

In 1995, MCA Records released Saturday Morning Cartoons Greatest Hits, a compilation of then current alt-rock stars and also-rans transforming the 30-60 second theme songs…

Ron Kretsch
Oct 12, 2016

Listen to over an hour of the jazz/surf background music from 60s ‘Spider-Man’ cartoon

There were three main ways I learned about Spider-Man as a child. The first was his wordless appearances on The Electric Company. Then as a…

Martin Schneider
Jun 27, 2016

‘I Don’t Wanna Grow Up’: Comix god Daniel Clowes’ cartoony video for the Ramones’ Tom Waits cover

On a recent episode of WTF, Marc Maron had an expansive chat with the renowned comix artist Daniel Clowes, the mind responsible for Eightball, Ghost…

Martin Schneider
Jun 17, 2016

‘The biggest thing since World War III’: Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, and Iggy Pop talk ‘Rock and Rule’

The 1983 animated rock and roll movie Rock and Rule was a failure at the box office but found its audience on cable TV a…

Martin Schneider
Apr 12, 2016

The Ramones should have had their own Saturday morning cartoon

Last year DM writer Marc Campbell alerted readers to two excellent animations by British animator Neil Williams of “Chainsaw” by the Ramones and “Pay to…

Martin Schneider
Mar 30, 2016

Ten years before Disney, Lotte Reiniger made breathtaking animated features before fleeing the Nazis

The popular history of animation starts with Walt Disney–a tragic oversight and a considerably US-centric misconception. In addition to the pre-Disney animation in America, the…

Amber Frost
May 12, 2015

Zappa meets claymation in the wonderful VHS rarity ‘The Amazing Mr. Bickford’

Many Frank Zappa fans will be familiar with the strange and delightful work of animator Bruce Bickford—his are the claymation sequences in Baby Snakes that…

Ron Kretsch
Apr 10, 2015

Eye-popping Bad Brains and Ramones’ cartoons that will rock your world

British animator Neil Williams (aka Stelos485) has created two of the coolest punk-related cartoons ever. The animation for the Bad Brains’ “Pay To Cum” is…

Marc Campbell
Mar 9, 2015

CGI versions of classic film trailers: ‘Grease,’ ‘Apocalypse Now,’ ‘Alien’ & ‘The Big Lebowski’

A crack team of second year Character Animators and CG Artists at The Animation Workshop/VIA UC in Viborg, Denmark, were given the task of producing…

Paul Gallagher
Jan 23, 2015

The Ho Ho Horror: Patton Oswalt’s amazing ‘Rudolph’ meets ‘Apocalypse Now’ parody

I can vividly remember growing up and watching those Rankin/Bass holiday specials every year. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Year Without a Santa Claus, Rudolph’s…

Martin Schneider
Dec 22, 2014

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