From YouTube.com user: jamesdeanconk

James Dean Conklin, a New York-based animator and documentary filmmaker who heads GreenheadMedia, must be cursed with always having lots of peculiar ideas running through his head. Ideas that he must turn into offbeat animated characters with eccentric and very funny storylines.

It was our lucky day when we ran across his quirky comic treasures, all with their varied characters and humorous plot lines, but also ironic and somewhat twisted in their humor.

You'll laugh out loud with a knowing wink back to these odd little characters and their dialogue. Then you just gotta wave a friend or co-worker over to replay these so you can share the joke.

In case you thought animation was just for kids, Conklin's "Adul Tito" (above), a precocious sprout who's fond of wearing a dark suits, tells us that animations are cool. But kids? Well, Adul Tito hates kids. He blurts this out matter-of-factly to the horror of his little neighbor. But he says it in Spanish so it sounds so much nicer.

Conklin and Greg Fiering created the Adul Tito videos as a portfolio piece to help him land a producing gig at the Locomotion network. And it paid off, he got the job.

Then there's the crime-fighting superhero WONDERMAN, and his alter-ego Henry Moore, a la Superman and Clark Kent. The sound and the animation in this steamy little shocker are somewhat cold and jumpy. I'm speculating that they were produced like that to mimic cartoons from the 50's or 60's. And the very serious sounding narrator and non-nonsense voices are a perfect contrast to the overtly sexual dialogue.

Wonderman is a crime-fighter, but like any guy he also wants to get laid. Well, get his alter-ego laid that is. Yes, he thinks about sex so much it's a wonder man that he gets any crime fighting done.

Wonderman, we're told, was an animation created for the Robert Smigel's TV Funhouse series (on Comedy Central) as a spoof of the 1940's Fleischer Studios Superman cartoons.

Ya know that guy? That guy who always has all the answers, but it turns out that they're the wrong answers? But he's so serious, and Gosh, so sincere and amiable that you can't bring yourself to tell him that his ramblings are utter nonsense. No one ever stopped this guy so it turns that he got his own TV show, self-named the The Monkeyman Show, complete with his own set of guidelines that he calls "The Monkeyman Rules".

Yes, The Monkeyman is a self-labelled, self-help guru whose work has helped dozens over the past 30 years. He'll guide you to success and empowerment with such admonitions as "Think of a place you want to go ... then go there."

In addition to all the above videos, there's also the short series called "Migraine Boy"; and also "Trail of Tears" and "Matthew", both by Greg Fiering.

All of GreenheadMedia's shorts are watchable, over and over and ageless. These videos are between five and ten years old. We'll be watching for more current stuff. But they'll have to push themselves to top their earlier work discussed above.

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