Spicy City

When word got out in 97 about Trey Parker and Matt Stones South Park getting picked up by Comedy Central as the first adult cartoon made for and broadcasted on American television, HBO quickly contacted Ralph Bakshi(Fritz the cat, Heavy Traffic) to beat them to the punch with Spicy City by over a month. It lasted 6 episodes due to the studios differences with Bakshis writing team.

These shots are all from episode 5, entitled 'Sex Drive'.

Brainseep: Hey Good Lookin, I married a Strange Person, Little Nemo

Hey Good Lookin (1982, Ralph Bakshi)









I Married a Strange Person (1998, Bill Plympton)








Little Nemo, Adventures in Slumberland (1989, Masami Hata and William T. Hurtz)

Brainseep: Coonskin, American Pop, Cleopatra, Allegro non Troppo

So i came up on a book that has every animated film released in the U.S. from 1926 to 2005 and i've been snatching up all the interesting ones during the last couple weeks. They started with Ralph Bakshi pretty much, he did Fritz the Cat and Wizards and Cool World and a slew of others, and eventually slid into Bill Plympton's(a la many a Liquid Television short back in the day) and René Laloux's (Fantastic Planet) further adventures into animation, as well as a bunch of new cats ive never heard of, and they are rad.

Ive got a buffer of snaps, but lets get the ball rolling with these:

Coonskin(1975, Ralph Bakshi)


American Pop (1981, Ralph Bakshi)




Cleopatra (1970, Ozamu Tezuka(creator of astroboy) and Eiichi Yamamoto)










Allegro Non Troppo (1976, Bruno Bozzetto)

fritz the cat

Watched Fritz the Cat last night, Ralph Bakshi's first feature length animated movie, based on Robert Crumb's 'Fritz the Cat' comic. It was released in 72' and was the first animated film to receive an 'X' rating in the U.S., mainly due to sex, drugs, violence and a general anti-establishment mentality.

The animation and voice acting is fucking great, especially for a lower budget independent film, and it was really cool checking out all the little creative, interesting animation techniques throughout.

Great fucking movie, I are fan.

an epic fantasy of peace and magic.

cool world

i dont think ive ever seen cool world in its entirety before, the animations really awesome, so awesome that i had to check out the rest of ralph bakshis catalogue and assimilate pretty much everything available. i understand that ralph hired a bunch of animators that knew their shit and told them to "do a scene. anything." and they spliced the bits between and over scenes of the actual "story" (bakshis screenplay was rewritten by the studio so its pretty weakish), to make most scenes really vibrant and busy, with lots of olde timey gags and bits, along with newer animation and rotoscoping. its very cool

ive seen 'wizards' before and glimpsed the cover to 'fire and ice' at videotime, the long dead video rental joint in moorpark loooong ago, but hes done an assload more including fritz the cat which ive heard of, based on an r. crumb character i understand, and a bunch more i havent, like heavy traffic and coonskin.

sweet, 70s animation, a new pocket for me :)