Word: cartoons
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Artful but not arty, Spirited Away is a handcrafted cartoon, as personal as an Utamaro painting, yet its breadth and heart give it an appeal that should touch American viewers of all ages. Our advice to parents: Take the kid. And for an enthralling two hours...
...delusion or he may be real, but only Ted can see him. As Mishkin describes him, "he's all charm and cute on the outside, but inside he's pure devil." In a complex play on the concept of the Muse, Waldo inspires Ted to create a like-named cartoon character for the animation studio his brother Al runs. While "Waldo" becomes a national icon, Waldo sends poor Ted to the bottle and in and out of sanatoriums. Paralleling this are the lives of Al, the pragmatic, artless businessman, Lillian, Ted's love interest and Al's mistress, Windsor Newton...
...main themes in "Boulevard," and a main theme in all of Kim Deitch's work, is the blurring of fantasy and reality. One typical scene depicts the recording of sound for a Waldo picture. The comic cuts back and forth between what's happening in the cartoon and what's going on in the studio. The cartoon is itself a parody of what goes on in the animation studio. Finally, the cartoon characters appear to step off of the screen and into the same space as the "real" people. But Deitch goes one further - mixing up true reality with...
...After thirty-five years, it's about time Kim Deitch gets his due. The rich ideas and beautiful cartooning of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," should be just the work to do it. While Deitch likes to explore the seamy, adult world behind the delightful veneer of kiddy pop culture, the book's central theme becomes the transporting power of great Art - even in the form of a cartoon. In the final pages, a tour de force wherein Deitch mixes three different planes of cartoon storytelling, the normally malevolent Waldo has the final...
...always rational time we've come to accept a lot of Surrealism's illogic. One visitor at the show was reminded of how with his children recently, he'd watched a Disney cartoon in which Mickey Mouse and his friends saunter across a field of Dali's melting watches. What else...