Ludwig

Back when MTV made room for some seriously strange animation, The Maxx arrived on its Oddities strand in 1995. Thirteen short episodes brought Sam Kieth’s work to television with its jagged edges intact. The visual approach still stands out. Comic panels spring into motion, heavy shadows swallow the screen, and hand-drawn animation collides with CGI and live-action footage. Those shifts give the whole thing an unstable, dreamlike quality perfectly suited to the material.