In a new announcement made on the Lackadaisy Twitter Page, the film is heading to the big screen for its first public screening event in Los Angeles’ Secret Movie Club.
Also, in a new exclusive report from Animation Magazine, the Los Angeles-based Secret Movie Club will host Lackadaisy: The Animated Short Film at the historic Million Dollar Theater on August 2nd at 7:30 pm PDT. The animated short film will also be accompanied by a special Q&A session with the film’s director, Fable Siegel. A special poster was also unveiled that featured artwork by Siegel, Keith Daily, and Lackadaisy Creator, Tracy Butler. Tickets are available now via Eventbrite.
The animation style brings together talented artists and animators for something fantastic. It makes me nostalgic for the works of Don Bluth and Ralph Bakshi. Iron Circus Comics, known by many as Chicago’s Largest Alternative Comics Publisher, is helping bring the Webcomic to life. The Webcomic series has won multiple Web Cartoonists’ Choice Awards, and in 2011, it was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic. This animated short-film is the first ever multimedia endeavor from Spike Trotman’s Iron Circus Comics, the trailblazing comics publisher that has raised nearly $3 million over more than 30 crowdfunding campaigns. The short was originally crowdfunded to the tune of $330,000, thanks to almost 6,000 backers. The pilot has reached 10 Million Views, and it has also caught the attention of the likes of iconic animator and director Ralph Bakshi, illustrator Tyson Hesse and director Lilly Wachowski, who praised the “Lush and Gorgeous” animation and “super fun” story.
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- Voice Cast:
- Michael Kovach as Rocky Rickaby
- Belsheber Rusape as Calvin “Freckle” McMurray
- Lisa Reimold as Ivy Pepper
- Ashe Wagner as Mitzi May
- SungWon Cho as Mordecai Heller
- Benni Latham as Serafine Savoy
- Malcolm Ray as Nicodeme Savoy
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For more information on this series, including a way to support the Comic series, be sure to visit their official website.
Set in St. Louis, Missouri in the midst of Prohibition, the comics center on the Lackadaisy, a speakeasy tucked away in a cave beneath the Little Daisy Cafe, where flashing the club symbol from a deck of cards grants everyone in-the-know access to to all the moonshine and music they desire. The joint’s packed full of gangsters, flappers, crooked cops, rum-runners, and wide-eyed ingenues. And they are, literally, all jazz cats.
The sepia-toned story features action and adventure, comedy and crime, and a colorful (if somewhat shady) cast of felines, including the Lackadaisy proprietors Atlas and Mitzi May, rumrunner Rocky Rickaby, and the sharp-tongued, fleet-footed con artist in training, Ivy Pepper.
Source: Lackadaisy Twitter Account, Animation Magazine
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