Milton Knight's "CAT AND MOUSE"

By another usual Cartoon Research reading, I was fallen to a link that New Yorker cartoonist Milton Knight has launched a Kickstater campaign for his upcoming animated production: Cat and Mouse.

Knight is easily one of, if not the more respectful cartoonist of his generation, by telling in his works his own experience of the shabby New York areas of his youth with a sincere homage to the classic animation of old. He has worked on such past animated shows like The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat and Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, which he designed the nefarious Dr. Robotnik in his own... with some regrets from this after. (Stop with his PINGAS thing! It's not exactly what the voice-actor originally tried to says)

He was also heavily criticial with the American animation system, at often producing crass-market for children and families, by taking fewer risks. And when we finally know that the whole industry is still murky by hired lots of metrosexuals doing up anything, the presence of Knight in a newer cartoon project is all the more hopeful.

The newer Kickstarter cartoon film amount the theme of domestic violence with many uses of ink and paint colors for fully given a much darker and realistic effect in tone. Knight is already aware of the presence of Artificial Intelligence that could spurred up here and there. He is announcing that this is a fake process to delivering something from a real human standpoint. We couldn't agree with him more!

One could assume that this is not on streaming or our 4K TV screens that great pieces of animated works could be made today. It's on the local, away of mass-medias. Big studios has just ran out of gas with the same tedious themes and to how scary the inclusion of Furries movies is more bigger that year than I do have remembered. It's as if be a Furry is a new thing now.

Learning to be observant from your eyes, and drawn things from your pointview is all the more emblematic, but harder to do it in a time where everyone drawn characters faces like Emojis and where everything is turning like Instagram's stories or Memes. This may explain why Milton Knight is the one cartoonist and artist who still deserve a job and sharing his stories to everyone and not just the classic animation bubble.

Hopefully that his project will come to fruitition and with better results than John K. has done years ago with his George Liquor's (Why can't he just rid of him to so gruesome that character were?) Cans Without Labels or something than went with this name. Short films never getting such of bigger exposure or attention since the death of the animated shorts business, back in the end-1960s.