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Gross-Out Show? Deranged Animation?
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Gross-Out Show seems more about the content of the show, judging by the large number of live action examples.
Deranged Animation could work but it only lists animated works, and this is a comic strip.
"It's just a show; I should really just relax"
Well, there's often significant overlap between gross and ugly in cartoon art, and without knowing what you're referring to, I thought I'd at least better mention it. Those loving closeups from Ren & Stimpy, that type of thing.
I'd say Deranged Animation could maybe be flexible enough to justify adding folders or even a separate subpage for comics, illustration, etc, since the latter tend to be heavily influenced by the former. Robert Crumb and his love of 1920s cartoons, for instance.
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^ Animation is "animation", illustration is "illustration".
And Deranged Animation relates to how they animate, not merely how they look.
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Animation is also the medium, like how comics and illustration are mediums. And it's an easy fix to add a couple of redirects and a few lines to the description.
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^ Don't you dare.
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I mean, I wasn't going to do it on my own or anything. It was just an idea.
Mr. Scorpion, could you weigh in here? You usually know better than I do.
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Since you ask... X3
I'd say it's worth running through the repair shop; you see this trope pop up in still-image form a lot in comics, particularly Dada Comics, Underground Comics, and some of the odder Widget Series manga. (Fourteen comes to mind...) Not surprising given the frequent crossover of series and creators between comics and animation, like Robert Crumb who's already been mentioned.
Maybe Deranged Cartooning would be a good generic name alongside Deranged Animation and Deranged Illustration,, with a note that it includes more realistic (but still distorted/bizarre/unsettling) cartooning styles like the aforementioned Fourteen.
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The works I'm thinking of would fall under Underground Comics.
I mean if anything I would prefer to redefine Gonk over since I think it has undergone a lot of Trope Decay. There are some things that Deranged Animation often has that a lot of Underground Comics don't have like psychedelic colors, Alien Geometry, etc... Maybe I'll start a trope talk thread.
Edited by naturalironist "It's just a show; I should really just relax"
It's not one or the other — we can fix Gonk as well. But it's not just Underground Comics that would be being covered if this were to go ahead. It would also be manga, Dada comics as Scorpion mentioned, European comics... Franco-Belgian Comics, for example, like the ones by Mœbius, are extremely colourful, feature Alien Geometries and other dreamlike imagery, and as such were a big part of psychedelic culture. Alan Moore and his collaborating artists, too, on things like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century and Promethea. And Grant Morrison as well, even on theoretically "mainstream" titles like Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth and Doom Patrol. The amount of cross-pollination between animation and comics is quite substantial.
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Apparently Gonk only applies to single characters who have a Non-Standard Character Design. What's the trope for an art style where everything is grotesque and deformed?