Comic Art &Daily post &Frame Grabs 19 Apr 2008 09:08 am
London’s Popeye/NY’s Bakshi
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- Mike Lynch has a great post about Bobby London‘s short stint writing and drawing the Popeye comic strip. There was a controversy in the last weeks of Londond’s tenure in doing the strip. Mike Lynch posts these strips and makes you long to see more of London’s work. There is a collection of his strips, Mondo Popeye, from St. Martin’s Press; it’s out of print and a bit pricey on the market.
Take a look at Mike Lynch‘s post.
- Tonight Ralph Bakshi will be at the Anthology Film Archives where two of his features will be screened. Heavy Traffic, which made it to many of the year’s top ten lists will show at 7pm and Coonskin,
which you can’t even find on NetFlix, will follow at 9pm.
Bakshi will be there to sign copies of his book, Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi.
7:00pm – Heavy Traffic
9:00pm – Coonskin
Tickets are $8, good for one or both features
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Ave. (corner of 2nd Ave.& 2nd St.)
NYC
Here’s the NYTimes review from Heavy Traffic‘s opening. ________________________
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Here are some frame grabs from the “Hey, Maybelline” segment of Heavy Traffic by Mark Kausler. Sorry the quality stinks, but the dvd is a dreadful transfer.
on 19 Apr 2008 at 12:37 pm 1.Tim Rauch said …
that “hey mabelline” sequence is one of the highlights of the movie for me… glad to know who did it. (good stuff, mark!)
on 19 Apr 2008 at 2:07 pm 2.Emmett Goodman said …
I met Mr. Bakshi at SVA yesterday. Although I was late, I loved a lot of the stuff he had to say. HEAVY TRAFFIC is a fantastic film, with some beautiful animation. I am suprised nobody addresses this, but one of Bakshi’s (untold) trademarks is using different animation styles (i.e. different frame rates, drawing styles, etc), which in my opinion, gives his films some livelihood. And I don’t think COONSKIN is on DVD, but it should be.
on 19 Apr 2008 at 2:48 pm 3.Tom Minton said …
Catch “Coonskin” and “Traffic” on a big screen while you have the chance. Last time I did was 1987, in a theatre under renovation with holes in the roof, so it was misting precipitation indoors. Today airborne mist is a perk reserved only for the most expensive of exhibition houses.
on 19 Apr 2008 at 3:32 pm 4.Eric Noble said …
I love “Heavy Traffic” and a lot of his other films. The “Maybellene” is just one of the many highlights of the film. I own “Coonskin” on DVD that I bought at a comic book convention and it’s one of my favorite movies. It’s so nice to hear a positive review of a Bakshi movie. Hopefully he can get his latest one, “The Last Days of Coney Island” completed.
on 22 Apr 2008 at 12:35 pm 5.Eddie Fitzgerald said …
It’s one of my favorite parts of the film too! Mark did a great job on this!
on 22 Apr 2008 at 10:20 pm 6.chuck said …
this was my favourite Bakshi moment
I had no idea Mark had animated it
thanks for posting this!