REAL FUN used to be a shock: a low-cost newsprint element tubby of badly toned photos, grotesque comics, carve and paste typesetting, one or two colours in one scheme making the overall kit ogle CHEAPER than if it used to be factual dim and white. Handwritten columns had been next to ragged Macintosh typesetting. Commercials for honest punk rock labels, file stores, and head retail outlets coexisted with strips by Peter Bagge, Dennis Worden, Invoice Griffith, Spain, the mysterious XENO, Henriette Valium, and assorted future stars. Flawed info articles, anti-McDonalds editorials, and a overall contempt for Reagan’s The usa made REAL FUN legit subversive literature for this suburban kid. What else did REAL FUN have? Jap cartoons!
This article by D.M. Kister and F. Sofa persisted across two points and no longer most appealing used to be it filled with a snicker typos and blatant editorializing, it used to be living proof of my firm conviction that Jap animation used to be a indispensable element of The usa’s mass media zeitgeist, that it had a series at the trash-tradition desk in conjunction with comic books, Pez dispensers, the forty five single, and unhurried-night time diner food.
Because it appears to be like Mike Kister had a exchange promoting Jap animation books and magazines so I articulate there used to be an ulterior motive at the support of this article.
Bear in mind, this used to be a time before businessmen even thought about the foundation of promoting Jap cartoons to The usa as anything else however edited, dubbed syndicated kid’s television. The concept that there would possibly possibly presumably well well be one thing helpful in these robot cartoons… that the stage of artistry and compose on your Macross or your Nausicaa would possibly possibly presumably well well be of passion to extra than sugar-addled 8-Three hundred and sixty five days olds… this used to be SUBVERSIVE THOUGHT in 1984.
Used to be Jap animation as transgressive as the “Grotesque Comics” of Atlanta’s have “Child Sue”? Handiest “Bob” knows for particular. Memorize his predictions for 1985!
And if “Bob” cannot heal you by slack, your most appealing hope is Fred Lane And His Hittite Sizzling Pictures.
You doubt the convergence of underground tradition and Jap cartoons? You idiot! Most likely this “Plain Planet” cartoon will persuade you with its clip-artwork Unico.
Moreover in REAL FUN: this ad for the WCC Animation Comics STAR BLAZERS.
The day of the free ad-zine would possibly possibly presumably well well be over, however that would not indicate I originate no longer omit the punk-rock typography or the casual thrown-together compose. If I had my formula ALL magazines would ogle care for this, which doubtlessly explains why I failed Graphic Fabricate. There factual wasn’t room within the waste for this form of breezy insolence that cannot support being REAL FUN.
