Did you tune into the premiere of the SuperNews half-hour episodes? If not, here’s a segment from the show that features Obama, Biden and Hillary wrestling with the whole AIG mess. SuperNews airs on Current at 10pm ET/PT on Fridays.

Yoni Goodman, the animation director on the award-winning, Flash-animated feature Waltz With Bashir, has created a new animated short film. Closed Zone is a mixed-media short that uses analogy to comment on the Gaza strip blockade. The film was produced by Gisha, a non-profit that aims to “protect the freedom of movement of Palestinians, especially Gaza residents.” The short has already been seen over 100,000 times on YouTube, thanks to coverage by the Huffington Post and the UK newspaper The Guardian.

In this behind-the-scenes segment below, Goodman and one of the producers discuss how the project came to be.

As auditors hint that General Motors may not be worth saving, we turn to Nick Anderson and Todd Ramsay. The two have summed up the situation with a short Flash-animation titled Running on Empty.

As we await the March 5th California Supreme Court hearing on the ridiculous and surprisingly polarizing Prop 8 (ban on same-sex marriage in California), enjoy this Flash-animated short by Matt Whitlock, who utilizes a humorous analogy to illustrate his stance. Titled Lefty Licenses, its the first episode in Whitlock’s new series The Saturday Evening Post-Apocalypse. Whitlock, a former Disney feature artist, is currently at Nickelodeon on The Fairly OddParents.

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Steven K.L. Olson, a producer and the lead animator on SuperNews (which will reveal half-hour episodes next month), recently worked on an animated short for the political satire site 23/6. The short, titled Just Be Lucky, was written and directed by A.D. Miles, who you may know from Reno 911 or Tim and Eric Awesome Show. Miles is spoofing the 1951 civil defense film Duck and Cover, by teaching us new lessons like “Hate + Fertilizer = Bomb.”