7 Responses to “Wednesday’s Creepy Cartoon”

1. Jonathan Wood says:
   August 8, 2007 at 3:24 pm

   I forget the name of this move, but it rocked my world. My sister and I used to watch this over and over again as kids, and we laughed our asses off.

   Probably explains a lot…

2. Michael C. says:
   August 8, 2007 at 4:59 pm

   It was The Adventures of Mark Twain (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088678/). I never saw it, but my husband really enjoyed it when he was younger. Cool videoclip.

3. jeff ford says:
   August 8, 2007 at 5:47 pm

   Not sure if you guys know this (sorry if you do), but that segment is a kind of claymation take off on Twain’s The Mysterious Stranger — one of the weirdest and perhaps most disturbing stories ever. It’s actually the only thing of his that I’ve read that I ever really liked a lot. It really should be considered a horror story, I guess. Here it is online.
   http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=TwaMyst.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=all

4. Scott Belisle says:
   August 8, 2007 at 11:43 pm

   Dude, that is awesome.

   pretty creepy, but definitely awesome as well.

5. Jeff VanderMeer says:
   August 9, 2007 at 8:02 am

   Jeff: Thanks! I didn’t know that. I do remember The Mysterious Stranger, though, now that I think about it–enough to agree it’s a damn weird story.

   Jeff

6. Wesley says:
   August 9, 2007 at 6:54 pm

   There are actually several versions of The Mysterious Stranger–the one everyone knows was patched together by Albert Bigelow Paine from two or three manuscripts written at different times. The Wikipedia article on The Mysterious Stranger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Stranger) has a decent summary. The University of California Press has published Twain’s one finished manuscript under the title Number 44, or The Mysterious Stranger.

   That said, I have to admit I like Paine’s version best.

7. Ben J says:
   August 10, 2007 at 10:40 pm

   I have a friend who emailed me a link to this toon, and it is indeed some freaky shit. Of course Twain was a mentor to Ambrose Bierce, so maybe it’s not so surprising he could make with the scary.