Channel Frederator Blog

It’s a big week for two of today’s top cartoonists fixated on centuries past. Last night was the premiere of Tony Millionaire’s The Drinky Crow Show on Adult Swim. Five episode summaries are currently posted including the intriguing-sounding “Episode Four: Organs” where “Drinky Crow infuriates his brain by quitting drinking, Gabby dates a sexy French spy trapped in a cage, and a young syphlis [sic] with a lot to prove fights his bladder.” Learn more, if you dare! Catch future episodes (but not syphilis) late Sunday nights at 12:15 AM.

Also, here’s a two-part- interview with Tony Millionaire and co-producer Eric Kaplan: Part One, Part Two.

And the more land-based creative storm Dame Darcy has a show up at Sloane Fine Art on the Lower East Side (until December 20th) which displays artwork from her new graphic novel Gasoline, about a family of orphaned Gothic witches.

The ever eerie trailer is here. Or on YouTube here. (Embedding is “disabled by request” so you have to go through the effort of clicking!) For another animated/puppeted take on Darcy’s dark and ornate world…after the jump, view “Golden Shoes” animated by Adam Gravois back in 1996.

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The Daily Mail is reporting that Wallace & Gromit will be making a comeback on television this Christmas season. The special is called “A Matter of Loaf and Death” (sounds Christmas-y enough to me) and will be 30 minutes in length, just like “A Grand Day Out”, “The Wrong Trousers”,  and “A Close Shave”.

Maybe it’s my weak American mind trying to take in the British humor (or is that “humour”), but I always thought Aardman’s best work was the shorter format. Both “Chicken Run” and “Curse of the Were-Rabbit” seemed to drag for me while I was watching them. The classic W&G shorts and the Creature Comforts series felt great.

Hopefully the piece will make its way to US television, or at the very least, the US festival circuit.

-Floyd Bishop