Comments on: Saturday in San Francisco: Ralph Bakshi at Tikva Records (free!) http://boingboing.net/2011/12/02/tomorrow-sat-in-san-francisc.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 07:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Chris LeBeouf http://boingboing.net/2011/12/02/tomorrow-sat-in-san-francisc.html#comment-1287030 Chris LeBeouf Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:14:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/12/02/tomorrow-sat-in-san-francisc.html#comment-1287030 Bakshi was freaking great. He did more to legitimize creator driven animation than nearly any other name in the 2oth century. Yes, he got famous for using Fritz the Cat, R. Crumb's creation, yes Wizards borrowed heavily from Vaughn Bode (who he was friends with). But those films are great and the pure Bakshi creations are even better. Coonskin and Heavy Traffic are amazing as is Fire and Ice, his collaboration with Frazetta.  He's the mind behind the New Adventures of Mighty Mouse. The show that single-handedly saved Saturday Morning Cartoons from the stilted, humorless, moralizing dreck that had plagued the lineup for years. He got animators excited about ANIMATING again. John Krisfulusi, the creator Ren & Stimpy, got his biggest break from Bakshi.  It kills me that everyone falls in love with bland, overproduced Disney films, while Bakshi, working perpetually under budget and unapologetically cartoony gets constantly labeled a hack. Its utter bullshit. Bakshi was freaking great. He did more to legitimize creator driven animation than nearly any other name in the 2oth century. Yes, he got famous for using Fritz the Cat, R. Crumb’s creation, yes Wizards borrowed heavily from Vaughn Bode (who he was friends with). But those films are great and the pure Bakshi creations are even better. Coonskin and Heavy Traffic are amazing as is Fire and Ice, his collaboration with Frazetta. 

He’s the mind behind the New Adventures of Mighty Mouse. The show that single-handedly saved Saturday Morning Cartoons from the stilted, humorless, moralizing dreck that had plagued the lineup for years. He got animators excited about ANIMATING again. John Krisfulusi, the creator Ren & Stimpy, got his biggest break from Bakshi. 

It kills me that everyone falls in love with bland, overproduced Disney films, while Bakshi, working perpetually under budget and unapologetically cartoony gets constantly labeled a hack. Its utter bullshit.

]]> By: sean http://boingboing.net/2011/12/02/tomorrow-sat-in-san-francisc.html#comment-1286427 sean Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/12/02/tomorrow-sat-in-san-francisc.html#comment-1286427 Yecch. He's just a visionless hack. Yecch. He’s just a visionless hack.

]]> By: Nick Gold http://boingboing.net/2011/12/02/tomorrow-sat-in-san-francisc.html#comment-1285740 Nick Gold Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/12/02/tomorrow-sat-in-san-francisc.html#comment-1285740 Bakshi's work is OK, but I think he deserves a LOT of crap for BLATANTLY ripping off the artwork of Bode for his highly derivative movie Wizards. Bakshi’s work is OK, but I think he deserves a LOT of crap for BLATANTLY ripping off the artwork of Bode for his highly derivative movie Wizards.

]]> By: Lynn http://boingboing.net/2011/12/02/tomorrow-sat-in-san-francisc.html#comment-1285623 Lynn Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:10:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/12/02/tomorrow-sat-in-san-francisc.html#comment-1285623 I saw the headline, and for a moment, thought, "What the -- why have they locked up Ralph Bakshi?"  ~facepalm~ I saw the headline, and for a moment, thought, “What the — why have they locked up Ralph Bakshi?”  ~facepalm~

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