Links: All Kinds of Stuff is Two

John K's All Kinds of Stuff is celebrating its second anniversary, and John has marked the occasion by nailing a manifesto to the front door of his blog stating why he thinks animation is so important.

To me (and others) the heights of cartoon art are more like music than they are like literal stories. Music has its own special language to describe its structure and melodies and we need a language like that. Otherwise, we are stuck trying to describe cartoons in terms of other media like live-action film, or novels. While there is some overlap between what cartoons do and what other artictic media does, there are also blatant difference. Those differences are what define us, what set us apart from other forms of entertainment.

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