Hey, John! You wrote:
>Your comment about filmmakers having a point of view
struck a cord with me.
>I've been an animator for the past twenty-seven
years, and of all the
>projects I was or (almost was) associated with, the
one that I REALLY wished
>had gotten off the ground was the animated version of
Will Eisner's THE
>SPIRIT. The property was in development for almost
three years (1982-1984),
>but then got shelved forever (you know how that
goes). It could have been
>the first hardboiled animated feature.
So what was the first hard-boiled animated feature? I'd have
to say BATMAN: THE MASK OF THE PHANTASM (sp?) was
hard-boiled, but somehow I doubt it was the first. I guess a
case could be made for Ralph Bashki's earlier HEAVY TRAFFIC
& FRITZ THE CAT, but to me they're more trippy freak show
than hard-boiled, from what I remember.
Which ties into what Jim said about attitude being more
important than content, when it comes to hard-boiled.
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