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Dec. 2015
Carolina López

I usually programme animation for the big screen, but I think the internet is the natural habitat of the titles I have chosen for this playlist. In a sense, they complement the programme I recently curated, From Doodles to Pixels. Over One Hundred Years of Spanish Animation, as a kind of rogue appendix (or appendicitis). I?ve borrowed the word whamming from my beloved Muchachada Nui, and I embrace Joaquín Reyes in his role as illustrator and author of hilarious animations.

WHAMMING ANIMATIONS 'MADE IN SPAIN?

  • Numberone: Paròdia de Pocoyó i Dragon Ball en un mateix episodi per gentilesa de Cálico electrónico

  • Numbertwo

  • Numberthree

  • Numberfour

  • Numberfive

  • Numbersix

Numberone: Paròdia de Pocoyó i Dragon Ball en un mateix episodi per gentilesa de Cálico electrónico

They were the first to make it big with an animated web series in Spain. It was the days of pushing to see how much grossness and scatology Flash could handle.
A parody of Pocoyó and Dragon Ball in a single episode courtesy of Cálico Electónico.

Numbertwo

What Joaquín Reyes really loves is drawing, but his famous characters make us laugh so much that we're not going to ask him to waste his life sitting in a dark room drawing frame by frame, Walt Disney style. That?s why we applaud his limited animations; because a good script and those voices are a license to do almost anything.

Numberthree

Arròs Covat is a TV series that rocks almost as much as the comics by its creator Juanjo Sáez. It also proves that channels like Catalonia?s TV3 can do a lot more than meet their production quota, and try their luck at projects that are different and more daring than the average Spanish television offering.

Numberfour

Now we enter the heart of post-humour with Venga Monjas, which oversteps the bounds of the bounds of animation, creating sketches that most people think are flop and a few people consider pure genius.

Numberfive

It's a pity that satirical magazine Mongolia does not animate its cartoons. Come on, Adanti, bring back the days of Elvis Christ and Vacalática, and do it now! (sorry for asking in public) Here is a short animation in pure TED style; made to order for a good cause.

Numbersix

So what about the girls? Where are Spain?s outrageous female animations?

A friend who is a comedian says that women don't have a sense of humour (and he must be right, because I don't get the joke). The challenge is to break this stereotype and get them to start laughing at our silly jokes, even if they just do it to be polite, or in return for all the years we?ve been humouring them! As a bonus track, here is US site animatedwoman.com. I hope the number of animated women in Spain starts taking off.