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November 27, 2009 in Imaginary Worlds, Indispensable?, Moving Pictures, The Inner Child | Permalink

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories
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The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

Das war mir bekannt, wobei ich es (noch) nicht gelesen habe. Was ich allerdings nicht wusste, ist, dass es eine Serie animierter Flash-Animationen gibt, in der einige der Charaktere daraus auftauchen: The World of Stainboy

In the shorts, Stainboy works for the Burbank police, and at the start of each episode he is ordered to investigate and bring in social outcasts. Many of the outcasts are characters from the Oyster Boy book. Each of the six episodes is under five minutes in length. The final episode had Stainboy living through a flashback to his early childhood at an orphanage, implying the beginning of a larger storyline, although no further episodes were produced.

In höherer Qualität gibt es die komplette Serie auf The Tim Burton Collective. Hier sind die Direktlinks zu den einzelnen Episoden:

1 Girl Who Stares
2 Toxic Boy
3 Bowling Ball
4 Robot Boy
5 Match Girl
6 Stainboy’s Day Off

[Übrigens gibt es dort auch die Fonts aus Nightmare before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory und Mars Attacks.]