Cartoon Porn + Clive Barker's "The Night Market"

On Saturday night Deanna and I went to the Vancouver Art Gallery to watch “Inkstuds Presents: A Night With Kim Deitch: An Evening of Rare, Obscure and Blacklisted Cartoons.” Robin McConnell, bless his soul, organized this to – I’m paraphrasing – get people away from youtube and into a social setting. I appreciated the sentiment, and the difference in size between a big screen and a youtube window, but not having to tolerate the smelly drunk guys in front of us and the guy behind me blowing bubbles and kicking my chair has its merits too.

Anyway, the cartoons were generally good – I’d actually already seen the 1930’s cartoon porn but it was still hilarious. They played various racy cartoons including Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarfs, a Bob Clampett toon that I’ve wanted to see for some time which, though overtly racist, was well animated, had a good score and was voiced by real African Americans. Compare this to Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips, which artistically was nothing special and certainly had no other merits; I’m sure it was shown only for the rarity factor.

Afterwards we cycled to the Chinatown Night Market, which I had never before experienced and was a lot of fun. I enjoyed constantly saying things like “anything can happen…in…the Night Market” using my best scary movie trailer voice.