Don Martin, Animated

In 1986, Gerhard Hahn's Deutsche Zeichentrick Erste Produktions GmbH & Co. KG. produced an animated feature called Don Martin Does It Again. Directed by Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, and Andrew Knight, it was based off many of Martin's old comic strips. Although I think it has some additional material written by Knight and Donna Bartolini, from what I've seen the bits are pretty faithful executions of Martin's original material. Sounds like a brilliant idea! Somehow, though, the pacing and onomatopoeia make the originals funnier to me. See for youself... Norma Martin, Don's widow, described it as "a half hour version of one of Don's long stories that can be found in his wholly owned pocketbooks." She added, "Don worked on this project extensively and the film won an award—there were problems of the usual kind between the parties. It was shown on TV in Europe — but never released in the US."

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