Heavy Traffic discussed on Junk Food Dinner podcast!

Fans of crazy adult animation rejoice, because Junk Food Dinner Episode #43 is here! This week we explore the seedy, gritty, surreal animated world of artist/director Ralph Bakshi.

First, we take a look at his 1973 semi-autobiographical tale of a young virgin cartoonist who draws inspiration from his inner-city surroundings and the wacky characters who inhabit it in 1973's groundbreaking Heavy Traffic. Then Bakshi focuses his lens on race relations and the black experience in America when we take a look at the controversial satire Coonskin from 1975. And finally two young men come of age against a backdrop of gang violence in 1950's Brooklyn in Hey Good Lookin' from 1982.

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