Finding Emo by Mandor | Media & Culture Cartoon

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Disney meets Tokio Hotel

Okay, this fantastic cartoon by mandor isn't just a spoof on the popular animation film. It can be interpreted as a political-cultural indictment of our society in multiple ways.
For one thing, it is questionable if this fish changed its bright orange dress of his own will or if one of the many oil layers of the oceans contaminated him.
For another thing, the fishhook piercing and the bruises might be fancy symbols for the negation of normalized society with all its legions of mediocre people - they simultaneously criticise the destroying overfishing by the industry.

mandor wants to call attention to a cultural peristroika in the entertainment industry: the audience no longer demands the happy and innocent Disney film characters which have to distract fat and socially neglected kiddies from their problems. The audience is longing for new characters with evil minds: villains like the medusian Ursula from "The Little Mermaid" who spread violence and turmoil; characters which often have a more profound characterisation than the withe-teethed heroes. Who prefers a noble dinner with slick Christian Bale-Batman if he could eat from trash cans with Heath Ledger-Joker?

p.s. to all of you emos: I know it's a crime to connect Tokio Hotel to the emo scene. But I liked the title ;)

(toonpool.com 01/09)

10 Comments

Member		:DDD CIGDEM DEMIR, on September 24, 2010 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Guest		tatoos are on the right side ;) it was hard work to draw them; pity thah you cant see ;)) Mandor (213.151.217.130), on January 26, 2009 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Staff		no tattoos? Battlestar, on January 26, 2009 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Member		found! i see the face of salvador dali vaclav anorak, on January 23, 2009 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Member		I guess, fishes use oil for their goth-styling? volkertoons, on January 22, 2009 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Member		very cute:) menekse cam, on September 23, 2008 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Member		haha! very funny!! oursoula, on September 11, 2008 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Member		great! I honestly wasn't even familiar with the word a few weeks ago! ^^ Playa from the Hymalaya, on September 11, 2008 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Member		AYAYAY, wonderful! Thanks so much for this one! If been waiting for a Nemo-cartoon for my whole adolescence! prinzparadox, on September 11, 2008 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Staff		angelhaken-piercing? hot. "fishhook-piercing? hot" Battlestar, on September 11, 2008 [report post] [quote] [reply]