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Krazy! The Delirious World Of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art is an exhibit currently on view at the Vancouver Art Gallery. It explores the related fields of comics (including manga and those “serious” graphic novels), animation (including anime), and video game design. Nice roundup at Canadian Art.

The animation section was curated by Tim Johnson, director of Antz and Over the Hedge and these films are highlighted:

GERTIE THE DINOSAUR | 1915
THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED | 1926
GERALD McBOING BOING | 1950
BLACK HULA | 1988
AKIRA | 1988
WALLACE & GROMIT in THE WRONG TROUSERS | 1993
OVER THE HEDGE | 2006
PAPRIKA | 2006

Marv Newland is in the exhibit (Black Hula), so that gives me an excuse to insert his most famous creation (and possible the greatest very short animated film ever), “Bambi Meets Godzilla”, here:

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