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Ikonaclast Panzerism!

Freights

Many moons ago, a group of us would skulk off to the freight yards and paint some cars. It was a bit of an easy set-up, because it seemed to us that no one really minded (as opposed to us painting a wall on the side of a freeway). These things seemed up for grabs. There was a cement plant along the coast that had dozens of these trains parked out by. It was basically picking a nice flat car, and spending a few hours painting.

Ot was the closest thing we had to a subway system, and that was the graffiti that all of us had been reared on.These rail cars would in fact ship concrete cross country, and every once in a while, a friend from Pennsylvania or Oregon would let us know that he saw our train car roll through town.

Crime Time

This was developed a while ago for an online show as a sort of interactive/cartoon/comic, side feature. The story centered around four homeless kids who make their home in an abandoned subway car.

The kids have the idea that, with the help of technical boy wizard 'Gnome', they'll one day get the car started again and running and away from the underground.In the meantime they come up against foes who have their eye on the car itself.

The four main characters consisted of Mila, a hot-headed graffiti artist. Gnome, the tinkerer brains of the outfit. Jaws, the loudmouthed, outspoken heart of the crew (Gnomes brother). And Charles, a limber jointed, half-wit, who, though part of the crew, is the only member who has an actual home.

Their adventures bring them to confront nazi skinheads, dangerous, homeless-ex-police, and insane social workers who have sinister agendas.

The series was created entirely in Flash, and had mostly a 'web comic' format along with music and animated elements within the panels.

Billie Jean- Aloe Blacc Dir: Ross Harris

Greek Newspaper

As a kid, I'd gone to Greece with my family. It was a stopover trip, so, we only stayed a few days. Athens was hot, and crazy polluted. I also remember seeing porno mags for the first time, because they were on every newsstand, plastered all over. My mom had given up on shielding my eyes. I didn't care too much, but, I was obsessed with Star Wars, and could think of nothing but. I picked up this:

Another thing we brought back was this newspaper. Can't read the headlines, but, the editorial comic on the front page says it all:

Beer!

Thanks to the fine folks over at 'Cartoon Brew', they've featured a series of old Beer ads (which were in a way, what kept the smaller animation studios busy off-season). Here's a classic from Stag beer, animated by none other than UPA studios:



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