Get Your War On Gets Animated

August 1st, 2008, 4 Comments »

Get Your War On is a series of red-ink comic strips about post-9/11 America, and an important voice of satire and reason in an unreasonable world. And now they’ve gone all stop-motion on us. Here’s the first episode (er, rated M for language):

Is there a name for this style of animation, where an artist draws (or uses some clever video editing tricks to appear to draw) over live video to achieve a very realistic style of character movement?

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Henry Rollins on WalMart

May 9th, 2007, 4 Comments »

Is anybody more hardcore than Henry Rollins? I saw him live doing his spoken word thing about five years ago and he was up there for, like, three hours. He wore us out.

I quite enjoyed this four-minute illustrated rant against WalMart. I think the illustration does a decent job of capturing Henry’s particular flavour of, what, erudite rage? There are a few cuss words:

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