January 20, Adult Swim’s Flash-animated series Squidbillies returned with an all-new 3rd season of episodes. The series, which is produced by the Atlanta-based Williams Street studio and physically animated by Radical Axis, kicked off a 20-episode order with Webnecks, and then they released Tween Steam which you can watch below.

According to a recent article in Animation Magazine, Univision’s first prime-time animated series, El Chavo: La Serie Animada debuted with strong ratings, scoring ahead of both The CW and the almighty NBC. This Flash-animated series was physically produced by Anima Estudios, which is based in Mexico City. El Chavo is based on the children’s show, El Chavo de Ocho.

Below is an episode titled Vacaciones en Acapulco.

For as unimpeded as their Emmy award winning show seems, South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker actually run into a fair amount of censorship issues. Back in 2006 the pair were prohibited from showing an image of Mohammed in the aptly titled two-part episode Cartoon Wars. Then there was the Tom Cruise dust-up regarding the Trapped in the Closet episode, after which Parker said in an ABC interview “as soon as we can’t make the show we want to make, we’re not going to make it anymore.”

Back in 2001 we may have seen a precursor to what could follow the end of South Park - Princess. This 2-episode series was
commissioned by Shockwave, a division of Macromedia (now owned by Adobe), intended for online distribution. The Flash-animated shorts were part of a reported $2 million dollar deal for Parker and Stone, which was summarily torn up after a screening by the Shockwave executives.

The shorts eventually leaked out, and you can view them below. You’ll also see a short documentary from the Trio Network on how this brief animated series came to life. The two episodes are extremely graphic – and surely NOT SAFE FOR WORK (masturbation, animated sex and violence).

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nockFORCE, the weekly animated musings of Jim Gisriel and Ian Jones-Quartey, has spawned its first politically-minded episode. This Flash-animated series isn’t the most elaborately-animated project, but keep in mind that Jones-Quartey is animating on his own – weekly. It’s a loopy, open-topic series that’s now released the 26th episode titled Presidential Go-Kart Race, which nods to the Nintendo game Mario Kart.

Bam Margera, one of the infamous Jackass daredevils, has been animated many times in the past – but mainly as a video game character. But back in 2006, this star of MTV’s Viva La Bam was illustrated into his very own Flash-animated pilot – Bamimation. I found this canceled pilot floating around the web, and am fairly certain it was animated by Six Point Harness in Hollywood.

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