In the '60s, an all-star team of Soviet artists assembled -- including Yuri Norstein. Together, they crafted a gentle, quiet gem called The Mitten. It's lovely stop motion, and it laid the groundwork for the team's later Cheburashka. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/a-film-for...

When Epstein Island gets a little crowded Collab with @paulgoodenough.bsky.social

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power. "Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?" www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

I wrote on @boingboing.net about the entire intellectual property of the late legendary cartoonist Will Eisner now up for sale. - boingboing.net/2026/01/31/l...

The Muppet Show: this thrilling return is so great I can’t even count how many times I laughed

Trump-regime laat ex-CNN-presentator Don Lemon oppakken omdat hij verslag deed van protest tegen ICE www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

so an english language version of this trailer featuring some additional footage not in the french trailer is now available on PBS 👀 www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...

Don't like Disney-slop's monopoly? Tired of the exploitative US-based entertainment? Or maybe longing for feature lenght 2D animated films? I present my recent discovery: Koati. It's a fun, well animated, fantasy story with cool character designs. Doubles as a great "spot the animal!" activity.

NRA UPDATE: "Guns Don’t Kill People ... Except When People are Filming the Govt." #ABlueView 🧵1/3 The shift on the Right on guns & their unmitigated hypocrisy is mind-blowing, right? Pretti deserved to die and Rittenhouse deserved freedom & a podcast deal.

Welcome John Carpenter's THE THING to the National Film Registry! bloody-disgusting.com/movie/393134...

Israëlisch leger geeft ongekende massamoord op bevolking Gaza toe, cijfers Hamas correct

Cartoon Floris Oudshoorn: ICE is het échte slachtoffer www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

Tweaked my #ICE #ICE #BABY cartoon.

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images. This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

#ICE #ICE #Babies

Looking for a business partner for my amazing idea.

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Here are some of my favorite cartoons from @cartoonmovement.com this week, by @zezvaz.bsky.social from Portugal, Sinisa Pismestrovic from Austria, @monerorape.bsky.social from Mexico and Z from Tunisia. For a daily dose of international political cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com

Today's front page on @lemonde.fr

I am travelling down to Laholm tomorrow to help build my exhibition at Teckningsmuseet. The show opens on 31 January. teckningsmuseet.se

Anyone else notice how people with the most guns seem to be the most scared? It's as if... as if... ... nope, lost it.

Best thing I've read in the Atlantic in years

This won the Netherlands top cartoon award

Peter de Wit gana el premio anual a la mejor viñeta política de los Países Bajos.

Any one that read Project 2O25 saw this coming. Hell, Black people have been telling us this was going to happen. Now is the time for all Americans, regardless of politics, to stand up and demand accountability and demand justice. We're further down that Niemoller poem than you think.

Oh Dutch Comedy Central, don’t ever change. 🤤

So by now my silly cartoon is redundant and no longer applicable bc everybody suddenly realizedwhat they meant with 'well regulated militia'. Right? RIGHT? #ICE #Killed #Another #Civilian

#Trump #Great #notsomuch

last week’s cartoon now in english for the non-Dutch community.

Cartoon Floris Oudshoorn:

This is from the Ottawa convoy of 2022. I keep reposting it because it's such a dramatic summary of the American right's media strategy, but repeated every week:

Cartoon Floris Oudshoorn:

Here’s hoping the future will prove me preposterously wrong.

From 2024. Dogos has only gotten crazier.

#vredesoverleg #Gaza #Kaag #😅

We don't deserve otters...

Oops, I only realized I forgot to link the blog article! Reposting it here, it covers Species and particularly the puppets and suits handled by Steve Johnson's XFX! And again also gets into the preliminary sculptures Giger did beforehand makeupeffectsarchive.blogspot.com/2026/01/spec...

Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?

Hundreds of photos revealing the faces of those killed during the violent crackdown on protests in Iran have been leaked to BBC Verify. The pictures reveal the bloodied, swollen and bruised faces of at least 326 victims - including 18 women. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Concentrated wealth. Today's cartoon by José Alberto Rodríguez Avila. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com #inequality #wealth #poverty #greed

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“