Interesting discussion in Prog Music Soceity......

[kirk]

Originally posted by Bob Lentil
Animaniacs was an awesome show. I'm also a big fan of Batman: The Animated Series, which never dumbed itself down to appeal to kids. If you've got a chance, watch Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, which I consider one of the greatest movies of all time (animated or otherwise). It certainly blows the live-action Batman movies away.

hi bob- admittedly, animaniacs was one of the best
of the 90's. of course, the competition was "flintstone kids",
those god awful babs and buster...
sort of like "the best prog of the 90's" IMO.
it wouldn't have been a standout in classic times.

again IMO- i doubt if we'll be going to midnight film
fests featuring animaniacs the way we did max fleischer
in the 70's.

re:batman~ one of the best superhero adaptations,
the boyd kirkland episodes, standouts.
much of the look was influenced by the 40's
fleischer superman series, a "must have" for collectors.
the dvds look fantastic, can be had for around $9.
the series is a time capsule of that superman era,
one where he wasn't quite as "super" as the 60's
planet-hopping weisinger-era comics.

cool the AM forumfolk are into cartoons and comics!
the first word i leaned to read was "superman" (seriously).

i should mention that i probably contributed the
ponytail and beard to the simpsons "comic book guy".
groening lived in eugene ore. at the same time i owned
the left coast's largest comic shop (comics plus),
at the same time was apprenticing w/ michael t. gilbert
of moorcock's "elric" fame.
according to groening, CBG is an amalgam of everyone
in eugene that was in the biz. 75% of the character
was/is (he's still there) an employee of my competition,
stu at emerald city comics.

k