YouTube Wednesday with Retro Toons

On my last log, I told you a little about Fire and Ice. Along with a trailer for it, I'd like to tell you a little more in this YouTube Wednesday. I loved it when I was a kid: it's a cartoon about a group of heroes' struggle against an overlord who wants to cover the world in glaciers. Ralph Bashki directed and wrote it in 1983, a work somewhat different from his previous movies. See, Bashki worked especially in social comment before... batshit social comment. Hey Good-Lookin', debuting in 1982, was set in the 50's society, and Fritz the Cat, by far his most well-known piece, came out in 1972 and satirized all of the 60's decade. It was also the most disturbing thing I ever looked at after Meet the Feebles.

As for Fire and Ice, it has pretty awesome voice acting (anime dubbers of today, eat your heart out!) and had character and art conception by Frank Frazetta, one of the great fantasy illustrators out there especially as Ice Age stuff is concerned (he did Conan the Barbarian-inspired art), so it's worth a view. If you get the time, take a look at it.