What if Thomas Ligotti wrote a cartoon script?

Karnos

Karnos

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That'd be something to really write home about.

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old Ren and Stimpy cartoon reminds me of Ligotti in his "corporate horror" style.
 
Thank you for this cartoon, Karnos. I do not personally see a connection to Thomas Ligotti's "corporate horror" pieces. What springs to my mind is his story "The Cocoons," which is a statement on psychiatry if I've ever read one...
 
I suppose a Ligottian cartoon wouldn't be too far removed from the weird crap that the earliest animations were about - devils' meetings, opiates, messed-up haunted houses, oh, and don't forget that creepy one with the fly-hotel run by a giant spider with questionable motives.
 
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Thank you for this cartoon, Karnos. I do not personally see a connection to Thomas Ligotti's "corporate horror" pieces. What springs to my mind is his story "The Cocoons," which is a statement on psychiatry if I've ever read one...
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I was talking mainly about the last eerie sequence with Ren as a fake US president. :lol:

Lots of Ren and Stimpy cartoons are way too weird and f***** up when compared to some of the PC stuff kids watch these days, some of the stuff wouldn't look out of place in the cabinet of Weird Fiction. That’s the only kids' show that I have enjoyed both as a kid and as an adult…
 
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I was talking mainly about the last eerie sequence with Ren as a fake US president.
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Karnos, I watched the episode once again last night. I think I see what you mean. It kind of fits in with "The Nightmare Network," arguably Thomas Ligotti's most science fictional story. My favorite chief of state construct is Yancy. He appeared in Philip K. Dick's story "The Mold of Yancy" in the mid-1950s, and later in Mr. Dick's 1964 novel The Penultimate Truth. This is truly spooky stuff whose time has come!

Ren, in my humble opinion, is the greatest animated dog actor to ever tread the stage. He is so... Chihuahua. Overall, only Porky Pig, Bullwinkle, Sylvester, and Dino are better actors.
 
Folks,

I have found a flash cartoon that could be broadly construed as 'Ligottian'. I wouldn't know how to describe it except as reality-skewed corporate horror. I use the term 'horror' loosely here since nothing explicitly horrible happens, rather there is a pervasive sense of disquiet caused by several things, perhaps foremost being that the audience has no prior insight as to the meaning of the characters' conversations, or their relationship in general.

www.fat-pie.com

Let me know your thoughts.
 
Dollglove,

This little masterpiece puts the meaning into meaninglessness. I enjoyed this thoroughly. Is that Mr. Ligotti chortling in the distance?

Avoiding the almonds,

Phil
 
Thanks for the link Dollglove. It reminded me a lot of Ligotti, but it reminded me even more of Mark Samuel's "The Impasse".
 
If you guys haven't already done so, then I'd suggest checking out the "Salad Fingers" cartoons on the Fat Pie site, as well. They tread the funny/disturbing line, and a couple of them even struck me as oddly touching (...so to speak?)
 
Yes. Rather disturbing but absurd and more than a little funny.

I really think that the aforementioned story "The Cocoons" would make a wonderful animated short. So would a few of Ligotti's stories, such as "The Voice in the Bones". It has that crooked half-lucidity that Gorey's darker work conjures so well, like The West Wing or The Insect God and perhaps The Utter Zoo (although very light-hearted and funny).
 
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