It’s been a couple of years since the city of Dallas has had their tolerance tested for excessive violence and suffering presented as entertainment. We don’t mean within the hustle and bustle that is ...

There might come a day when “Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation” is regarded as an intelligent forum for social satire and experimental animation. That dream is probably far from ...

It’s hard to believe that animation and clay–the same media that brought us Mickey Mouse and Gumby–could also spawn the likes of entries from The Spike & Mike Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation.

For the first time in nearly two decades, prepare to have your minds blown out of your butts yet again. Starting in 1977, Craig "Spike" Decker and Mike Gribble introduced Spike and Mike's Festival of ...

Boulder-based cartoon company Mighty Fudge Studios revels in hijinks and notoriety, whether its producing spots for The Spike & Mike Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation or creating animated attacks ...

Some of this year’s puke-raking goodies have already been seen locally, but that’s no excuse for fans of cartoon scatology not to devour the entire Slamdance-approved package of desktop deviance. Once ...

Every year that I’ve gone to Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation, I’ve done so with less enthusiasm, not because the fest that discovered Beavis and Butthead and South Park has gotten ...

I went to the Sick and Twisted festival last year, and one of the shorts they showed was called 700cc (I think). Basically, it was about a biker who steals an old lady's medecine. I love S&M and ...

This Sick & Twisted traveling cartoon festival was an offshoot of the Spike & Mike Animation Festival, which began as filler at rock concerts twenty-five years ago and remains the leading venue for ...

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Contagious is Shout! Factory's fourth collection of Sick and Twisted shorts from the Spike & Mike collection. They range from the curiously cute (Doggie Style) to the romantic (The Two Minute Itch) to ...