Fun screening coming up in London! Love to continue our cheerleading of all things Cartoon Saloon a double bill of their brand new short film, plus the feature that started it all.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

I guess I just think it shouldn’t be this easy for them. There are so many ways it could be harder and hundreds of people are just selling us all out

I’m back from holiday to talk about a pretty fun action fantasy flick, and to do a little hating on Demon Slayer

Most manga struggles when it comes to trans stuff, but I find the messy ones all the more interesting and Fujimoto just goes for pure focused emotion in a world that is falling apart and always seeking to control human bodies. Last pages really fucked me up.

Finished up Fire Punch earlier this week, immediately canonized it in my favorites, and then went back to read one of my favorite chapters because I haven't stopped thinking about it for days. "What did you think when he said I was a man?" "I thought he was kidding."

The LINDA LINDA LINDA 20th anniversary press tour is my Oasis reunion

Ah man, RIP to arguably the greatest movie star ever.

Hello everyone, I'm Helen McCarthy. I've been researching anime, manga and Japan since 1981 and my first book was published in 1992. A dozen books since, two more in 2026, cosplay history and talks. Follow me for anime/manga titbits, snippets about Japan, recommendations, daily poems and fun stuff!

I am looking for work! I'm a pretty good film/TV critic and feature writer, especially as far as animation is concerned. I have bylines at Variety, GQ, Empire, Vulture, IGN, I've done home entertainment, – editors can reach me at kambole[at]outlook[dot]com, below is an example of a piece I wrote:

the pop up ends like 3 days before I get there 😭😭😭

back from Cape Town. saw my old house and neighbourhood (1), saw old friends, went on safari in Kruger (2), ate a lot of good food (3) and finally, I got engaged (4)

this is soft, dude. this is really, really soft. a few years back, Frank Tieri threatened another critic and myself with violence, directly, at a comic-con over Batman opinions. That dude kept his job. He slid into my DMs with a fake apology. C. Kirk called for extermination. A joke didn't kill him.

🚨got a new film camera🚨 bought a brand new Minox compact 35mm from a market in Cape Town, from a former psychology professor who congratulated me on “reverse colonising” the UK

read the Jujutsu Kaisen sequel manga on my holiday because I hate myself

covering art books is something we’re pretty excited to do for re:frame - never had the chance elsewhere. here’s Toussaint on a lovely assembly of art and production material:

For re:frame #12, @thesaintoftous.bsky.social digs into the X-Men '97 art book – which is unsurprisingly stunning.

Your weapon drawn, your bearings true.

“Editing according to traffic is not editing; it’s engineering,” nymag.com/intelligence...

honored proud MOVED to be the 1st guest to pub at reframenewsletter.online. this old piece sat for ages and meant a lot to me. thrilled i could dust it off Thank you to @rollin.bsky.social @thesaintoftous.bsky.social @kambole.bsky.social for accepting it and for their great animation journalism!

it was brought to my attention that Cape Town has the world’s greatest cinema name, and so we made the pilgrimage

we hadn't even planned to open up to outside contribs yet but when @ericvb.bsky.social, whose work we all admire, came to us with this one... well, who says no to a Bruce Timm interview?

re:frame #11 is out now! And it's a little bit different for us... Our first guest contributor ever @ericvb.bsky.social shares a previously unpublished interview with Bruce Timm and James Tucker all about Batman: Caped Crusader.

Also, I'm going to pretend like this timing was intentional.

Rafael is our strongest soldier also Demon Slayer sucks

Part of being a writer with privilige (racial, gender or otherwise) is realising when an assignment probably shouldn't go to you and recommending others for the gig

Please support Glacier's new campaign because all the books are obv incredible and their editions impeccable. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gla...

This 'taking votes from Labour' line should be their undoing. Those are not 'Labour's votes' they are voters who have chosen to trust Labour to represent them. If they lose that trust, they lose those votes. If they want to keep them, they need to prove themselves trustworthy, not demand loyalty

V clear that someone is probably going to get killed as a result of all these far right provocations, and that Starmer will have to basically say that he understands the intention behind it

we need animated fire punch. cannibal incest in episode 1. psychotic trans man cinephile as a main character. the nihilistic ending. this will heal the globe

shout out to Rollin for holding down the fort while @thesaintoftous.bsky.social and I go gallivanting. read re:frame #10!

re:frame #10 is out! If you don't already know Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, take it from me: you should.

2D animation is booming in theaters. In China, the film Nobody is outgrossing many of Hollywood's recent CG films—on a $10< million budget. It's only one example. As 2D films rise, Hollywood's decision to kill them off looks shortsighted. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-hand-d...

a little holiday update: seen a lot of elephants, some buffalo, giraffe, hyenas (plus cubs!) a pride of lions (also with cubs!) all up close. didn’t get pictures of everything but here’s a couple

It has been an absolute delight to work closely with @kambole.bsky.social and @thesaintoftous.bsky.social to make this weird little thing exist. It's far from perfect! But we're doing it, and figuring things out as we go, and I'm so pleased that so many folks have decided to come along for the ride.

Part of the reason we decided to do re:frame in the first place was that desire to Blog™ and cover what we want to cover when we want to cover it – there's plenty more to do, mind – but also with the accountability of a group. Easy enough to start a solo Wordpress or tumblr, harder to keep it up.

With re:frame #9, @kambole.bsky.social closes out the very first month of our new animation newsletter by going long on Long Story Short:

I managed to squeeze in one more re:frame send before I fly! Here’s me on LONG STORY SHORT, a new show from the creator of BoJack Horseman: buttondown.com/reframe/arch...

about to fly back to South Africa for the first time since I left 20 years ago to live in the UK. feels kinda surreal!

Word is out, Gunbuster is leaving the Discotek catalog and likely bound for licensing hell. Still some copies at the MediaOCD Store, so get it while you can! www.mediaocd.com/product-page...

yesssss

Wouldn't it be cool if in response to Kpop Demon Hunters being the most successful animated movie of the year/all time/whatever companies paid artists to do cool original projects and more shows and movies and more stability in animation and design. Hahahhahahahahahhaha man. Oh well!

new re:frame today! @rollin.bsky.social has a quick look back at Delicious in Dungeon (one of the best shows of last year imo) and its lovely score: buttondown.com/reframe/arch...

new re:frame today! @rollin.bsky.social has a quick look back at Delicious in Dungeon (one of the best shows of last year imo) and its lovely score: buttondown.com/reframe/arch...

In the four years I've been at IGN I've watched its staff shrink and shrink, all while those who remain are asked to do more and more. I see colleagues skip lunch, stay late day after day, and burn out. IGN staff are passionate and love their work. But we can't keep letting that be exploited.

Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain. Not this time. Not anymore.

ICYMI: our latest re:frame send was @thesaintoftous.bsky.social interviewing the director of the wild BOYS GO TO JUPITER! read it here, subscribe for more: buttondown.com/reframe/arch...

three days of live wrestling in a row as an early birthday treat, ending in AEW Forbidden Door. amazing weekend, especially because @hannahstrong.co.uk made me a Hangman Adam Page (wrestling Godzilla) cake

this thread captures a lot of my mixed feelings about what's going on with Sekiro and AI in the arts more generally. I think part of the reason why the backlash at even a hint of genAI integration from the studio was so thunderous is that it's always being squeezed into places we don't want it.

re:frame #7 is out! @thesaintoftous.bsky.social interviewed Boys Go to Jupiter director Julian Glander. Read the whole thing here: