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Jason Schwartzman, Aubrey Plaza in Amazon Cat Cartoon

Jason Schwartzman, Aubrey Plaza in Amazon Cat Cartoon

Published by Daniella Wilson

When Kevin (voiced by Jason Schwartzman), star of Amazon’s new animated series Kevin, suffers a bad breakup, he does what any young man in the big city might do. He moves out of his old place, picks up new friends and new interests, explores his former neighborhood with fresh eyes. He takes time alone to think about what he really wants out of a relationship, or out of life. He considers new potential life partners, and eventually courts one. Occasionally, unhappily, he backslides into contact with his ex. Kevin The Bottom Line An amiable hangout comedy, with a feline twist. Airdate: Monday, April 20 (Prime Video)Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Amy Sedaris, John Waters, Whoopi Goldberg, Aparna Nancherla, Gil Ozeri, Aubrey PlazaCreators: Aubrey Plaza, Joe Wengert What makes Kevin’s journey more unexpected than most is that he is no fleece-vested banker or tattooed barista, but a tuxedo cat; his split is not with a lover but with his human owners. The feline twist is enough to make Kevin, created by Joe Wengert and Aubrey Plaza, feel like …

Mouse: P.I. For Hire Review: A Competent Shooter Oozing With Cartoon Charm

Mouse: P.I. For Hire Review: A Competent Shooter Oozing With Cartoon Charm

Published by skeptic

Like any foolishly hopeful gamer, I sat in the darkness of my home, booting up a game I prayed would shine bright enough to live up to its promise. A black-and-white shooter set in a city full of mice? A classic cartoon animation style? A gumshoe noir plot? The idiosyncrasies stacked like Jenga blocks, and one faulty element could send the whole tower tumbling. But isn’t that always the way in Gamer Town, where promising pitches are a dime a dozen, and few successfully pull off their daring dreams. Mouse: P.I. For Hire, the long-awaited indie first-person shooter spawned from a post on X, is finally coming out on Thursday after years of trailers and teasers, and at a modest $30 price to boot. Though its creators from Polish studio Fumi Games insist that the game’s look is more broadly inspired by the 1930s “rubber hose” style of animation popularized by Betty Boop and Fleischer cartoons, it’s not hard to see visual similarities with Steamboat Willie, the black-and-white character that preceded Mickey Mouse. A lot …

Barry Caldwell death: Cartoon veteran behind Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain dies aged 68

Barry Caldwell death: Cartoon veteran behind Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain dies aged 68

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Barry Caldwell, a veteran American animator and storyboard artist whose credits included Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain and Osmosis Jones, has died at the age of 68. His death was announced on Facebook by his longtime friend and fellow animator Paul Dini. “Barry Caldwell was one of the first animation artists I met when I started my career fresh out of school way back around 1980,” Dini began his heartfelt post, which included a photo of Caldwell in an animation office. “He was also one of the finest artists I ever met, and easily one of the best people. The man’s talent as a cartoonist, designer and director was revered throughout the industry… “When it comes to humor, it takes a special kind of genuis to be both dry and warm. Barry was both. No artist ever mocked the insanity of …

‘A Cartoon Revival’ | Lucy Sante

‘A Cartoon Revival’ | Lucy Sante

Published by Jenni Sidey

Two issues of C Comics appeared, in 1964 and 1966, as an offshoot of C, a poetry magazine edited by Ted Berrigan. All the art was by Joe Brainard, while the words were supplied by a roster of seventeen poets. Brainard, Berrigan, and the poets Ron Padgett and Dick Gallup, dubbed by John Ashbery the “soi-disant Tulsa School,” had precociously entered the world of poetry with Padgett’s White Dove Review (1959–1960) while three of them were in high school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Then they all moved to New York City, where they joined the second generation of the New York School of poets (a name that has remained contentious since it was first used in the 1950s). In a neat reversal of Apollinaire and Frank O’Hara—court poets to an array of painters—Brainard was the painter among the poets. (He also wrote himself, most famously his experimental 1970 memoir, I Remember.) In the 1950s the first New York Scholars (O’Hara, Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler) had been surrounded by painters, from intimates such as Jane Freilicher …