[ SECRET POST #6479 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6479 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I don't know what British animation is like now, but Cosgrove Hall animation was the best when I was a kid. Danger Mouse and Duckula. Check it out, if you haven't done so before. The old stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

Didn't they also do the original Thomas the Tank Engine or am I imagining things?

[(Anonymous)]

I loved SuperTed and Dr Snuggles when I was little. Snuggles was rather poorly dubbed and you could sometimes hear the original english in the background.

[(Anonymous)]

Dr Snuggles was really fun! I am now earwormed by the title song.

[(Anonymous)]

SuperTed! Oh the memories

[(Anonymous)]

Oh wow I remember watching Dr Snuggles on vhs!
I remember reading on wikipedia that there were plans to bring back Super Ted, but that was a couple of years ago now.

[(Anonymous)]

Count Duckula was really good.

[(Anonymous)]

Cosgrove Hall also did great adaptations of two Discworld books too. It's not movie-level animation by any means, but it has character and the right tone for the books, I feel. I think both, Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music, are on YouTube for any interested. They are the best Discworld adaptations and I shall die on this hill!

[(Anonymous)]

There were some good British comics back in the '80s and '90s, at least. 2000A.D was awesome!

[(Anonymous)]

Same thing that happened to all the arts here - a victim of austerity. Animation's not my thing, but every so often the 'why does Ireland produce so many great writers and we don't' debate comes up and the answer is normally 'extremely robust arts funding'.

[lokifan]

YEP

[(Anonymous)]

my favourite comics writer is from Britain actiually: James Roberts, the writer of IDWs first generation Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye (later renamed Transformers: Lost Light). his writing isn't like anything I ever read in comics - wery complex, smart and witty, yet light when it's needed. when MTMTE was publishing, it got a lot of awards and stuff. oh, he also has a buddy Nick Roche whos a writer and an artist and publishes his own comics aside from art gigs.
but OP, you're completely right, these guys I mention published in USA. and like, no matter how many awards MTMTE got, Jro's now sitting without any comics job, in Britain or USA, and not for a lack of trying. it still blows my mind how even he can't find any gigs, despite awards and great reputation and beloved by fandom and all. oof.

[(Anonymous)]

Money is the big reason, followed by the limitations of what is here. Either it has to be something aimed towards kids (and even then, tv companies will choose the cheapest already-made cartoons from other countries over putting money into creating anything over here), or adult humor that had an even narrower chance of getting a foot in the door.
It probably hasn't helped that the landscape of tv has changed in the UK. There's more focus on streaming services over airing anything on TV, and recently ITV has closed down the CITV channel for good, where most of the more recent British cartoons had been airing.
It's not entirely non-existent, but by god it's diminishing. And that's just talking about TV animation shows - movies usually have to have half a dozen collaborations to fund any animation and I don't really know much about the UK comic industry other than it's still kind of there.