SEGMENT EPISODE! This week we also have a ‘special’ feature being that this episode is mostly UNEDITED; I mean I put in music and stuff but awkward pauses?… totally intact. We talk about studios skipping Comic-Con, Eric Goldberg’s awesome couch gag for “The Simpsons” and of course the fact that Comcast just bought Dreamworks Animation for $3.8bil! Taylor Armstrong, festival manager for Animation Block Party in Brooklyn, comes on to remind you all to submit your films to their awesome event, we talk about ALL your RubberOnionBattle submissions for April and cap it all off with your favorite segment… Rapid Fire! Enjoy the show!

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SEGMENT EPISODE! This week we talk about the tough distribution situation that “The Little Prince” is in, the upcoming Ghostbusters animated film, and the TMNT crossover episode with its 80s counterparts. There’s an audience question, a preview of next weeks interview with Tomm Moore, talking about all the #RubberOnionBattle videos from February and Rapid Fire! This was a really fun episode to put together and I think you’re going to love it. I’m already part way done with the editing of the episode next week and you are going to love that interview, trust me!

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Clash of Clans commercial

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Tokka and Rahzar (from TMNT 2 film) in original TMNT cartoon
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Is “Hello Kitty” a cat or isn’t she?! Is “Bojack Horseman” any good? Is Marvel actually making a “Guardians of the Galaxy” animated series? She is, it is, and they aren’t. There, now you don’t need to listen to the episode. But if you didn’t you’d miss our soothing voices and witty quips! Rob has some major technical issues and it made for an Intro that made me laugh so hard while I was cutting it together I had to take a break to wipe the tears from my eyes. How’s THAT for raising your expectations too high?! Also, do YOU know why we named this episode “Purse on Vacation?” I’ll give you a hint: say it fast. I’ll give you another hint: Rob can’t pronounce words.

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Animated short 2009 (topic brought up at 57:21 in the podcast)

 
Same animated short redone in 2014

 
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New York, NY – Friday, June 7, 2013

I’ve mentioned on Facebook Before that no matter how many times I enter The New Yorker Caption Contest I will never win because my captions are a little too over the top for them.  Well, two days ago I entered the Design Taxi caption contest (which is basically the same concept), and WTF?!!?  I won.  First try bitches! Then again, the caption is brilliant.

If you don’t get the joke, the superheros  Lee Sargent drew going to parent / teacher night (doing what appear to be the Charlie Brown sad walk) are all orphans, a common trope among superheros.  The “Justice League” is a team of Superheros three of these characters (the DC Comic characters) are a part of.

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  Written by Cojo “Art Juggernaut”

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Back in 2007 I got a weird illustration assignment in.  I had done work for the music magazine Alternative Press five years earlier, creating a bunch of art for the Warped Tour 02 Magazine but this was to be completely different.  It’s always strange when a client asks an artist to try to “ape” another artist’s style, and some artists just won’t or can’t do it.  The art director floated out the “homage” concept in a mass email to the freelancers to see who could draw in the style of the deceased children’s book illustrator Richard Scarry.

I normally focus on my line weights, and color, but Scarry was all about uniform simple line art, creating a world of anthropomorphic animals that live in an alternate universe where there are no humans.

The concept was that a bunch of musicians were going to write a paragraph about their first job, and I would draw these various scenarios all in one city scene.  Everything outside of those stories was up to me, I could populate the town as I wished.  Being that the magazine is pretty bad ass with a focus on indy, punk, and heavy metal, I took Richard Scarry to places little kids reading the books wouldn’t think he’d venture…observe:

He has three tear tats, that means he was raped three times in prison.  No wonder he’s pissed.  Notice the globe, I wanted to make sure people knew that this was earth, even though a cat is feeding birds instead of killing and eating them.

The cat on the skateboard needs sleep, he is cracked out.

Sunglasses selling lion don’t give a shit, he’s got shit to do, online shit.

That pig is paying for a smoothie with a dollar, that’s how you know this isn’t earth.

Upstairs is for hipster giraffes only.

Some of what I wanted to draw did have to get censored…as in, they made me change the image last minute.  This bear was squeezing a panicking mouse’s head (which is why the beatnik mouse and the worm guy look pissed and concerned. I ended up just having to get rid of the mouse in his hands.

This rabbit was flipping the bird…DELETE THE MIDDLE FINGER please.

This bunny is into some dark shit, and so is the bear.  Rock on.

Here is the issue it ran in.  Good times.

Written & Drawn by Cojo “Art Juggernaut”

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