I have a Felix the Cat VHS set somewhere- I don't even remember any specific episodes. I'll find a Youtube collection somewhere. Hand drawn animation is nuts, it's the one job I'd rank above Astronaut. It takes so much work and so much skill. I still daydream about creating my own hand drawn Sakuga work, but it's too easy to convince myself it's too much work.

I really wanted to work in cartooning when I was a kid. I remember there was a newspaper cartoonist who visited my class when I was in 2nd grade, and I gave him a page of comics. It makes me cringe so hard because I know the comics in them were so terrible. I also had a comic in middle school where I recycled the jokes from a Bloom County collection because we didn't have any of Berkeley Breathed's comics in our newspaper. I would arrive early to every period and a good portion of my class liked reading them.

It would be years until I realized that people liked me because they thought I was cool, not because I was funny.

Man, I really don't want anyone to not play Cuphead because the game is difficult, but it's taken me at least 8 - 15 times to get through each level so far. Each level is slightly over 2 minutes long. I hope you think about whether you can handle being stuck for 30 minutes, because it feels so good if you can get over it.

I have a looping playlist of the music from the game with really exciting drum parts: