The Editorial Desk
We ask why the drawings we love work on us the way they do, and then we follow the answers into stranger territory than we planned.
Pluck: The Editorial Desk of String Theory Cartoons
Latest Transmission Obs. 004 Art
Why Do We Keep Reinventing the Mid-Century?
Cocktails, butterfly roofs, flying saucers and suspiciously well-dressed cats: the mid-century visual world refuses to fade. Pluck looks at how Shag and his fellow retro artists turned an edited, mythologized past into a living art language, and why so many of us…
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Observations
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Animation · Pluck Lab No. 002
Why Bad Drawings Make Great Animation
Why do distorted frames and impossible physics make a cartoon feel more alive, not less?
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Webtoons · Pluck Lab No. 003
How the Infinite Scroll Changed the Way Comics Tell Stories
What happens to storytelling when the page disappears and vertical scrolling takes over?
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Cartoons · Pluck Lab No. 001
Why Do the Cartoons We Loved as Kids Stay With Us?
Why are they still taking up space in our heads?
Pluck Lab
No.002
- Subject
- Bad Drawings, Great Animation
- Question
- Why do distorted frames and impossible physics make a cartoon feel more alive, not less?
- Method
- Freeze-frames, rubber-hose limbs, the occasional smear frame, and an unreasonable number of Looney Tunes rewinds.
Investigate it. Explain what we discover.”