nemorathwald | Pet Peeve: Animation Cels on the Wall (Reply)

As an artist my only interest has been to tell stories and bring characters to life, which is why I revere comics, puppets, costumes and animation as art but disdain museums as decoration. Why frame a cel of animation or a page from a comic book and hang it on a wall? I would feel like I was using something wonderful for something pointless. I have no interest in images in frames on walls, lacking narrative context; but if you do, there are lots of them already created specifically for that, which are actually good at it. "Animation" is a word meaning "life." A collectable cel in isolation looks like a cross section surgically extracted with a dull razor from the context where it worked. It's as ugly as a taxidermy kitten.