So today I happened to be thinking about an old MTV show called Liquid Television.  Who remembers it?  It  was an animation showcase that won an Emmy in 1990 featuring such gems as Winter Steele, Beevis and Butthead, and Aeon Flux.  There were also a large number of animation pieces adapted from the work of Art Spiegelman‘s comic compilation, RAW, which featured underground cartoonists like Mark Beyer, Richard Sala, and Peter Bagge. In particular, Dog-Boy  by Charles Burns (which I heart!) was based on the artist’s series from RAW.

Selected segments from the show, including the first appearances of Æon Flux, (made into a movie in 2005 starring Charlize Theron) were released on VHS in the late 90s as The Best of Liquid Television parts one and two; these are long out-of-print. A collection volume, titled Wet Shorts (The Best of Liquid Television), comprising the two VHS tapes, was available on DVD, but now this too is out-of-print.

I actually have some old episodes of Liquid Television on VHS and even harder to believe, I still have a VHS player <insert laugh here>!  I made my cousin sit through a bunch of episodes when he was staying with me since I had no cable.  Anyway I was looking for some footage to share with you and found one of my favorite animated shorts produced by Paul Driessen and Nico Crama in the Netherlands in 1977:  The Killing of an Egg.   Enjoy!

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