LACKADAISY, The Animated Short Based on Tracy Butler’s Webcomic, Gets Theatrical Premiere

Los Angeles-based Secret Movie Club will present the first public screening of the online phenomenon Lackadaisy: The Animated Short Film at LA’s Secret Movie Club Theater Theater on Wednesday, August 2, 2023. The 27-minute animated film will be accompanied by a Q&A with director Fable Siegel. Since the film debuted on YouTube on March 29, director Fable Siegel’s animated adaptation of Tracy Butler’s Eisner Award-nominated webcomic Lackadaisy has been viewed almost 10 million times and caught the attention of the likes of iconic animator and director Ralph Bakshi, illustrator Tyson Hesse and director Lilly Wachowski. Tickets are available here.

Set in St. Louis, Missouri in the midst of Prohibition, the film features a stellar cast:

• Michael Kovach (@kovox) as Rocky Rickaby;

• Belsheber Rusape (@BelRusapeVO) as Calvin “Freckle” McMurray;

• Lisa Reimold (@lisareimold) as Ivy Pepper;

• Ashe Wagner (@TheQueenViking) as Mitzi May;

• and SungWon Cho (@ProZD) as Mordecai Heller!

• Theme music by Sepiatonic, the Portland-based music and dance experience that performs Electro-Vaudeville and will provide the film’s theme music.

Lackadaisy: The Animated Short Film is the first ever multimedia endeavor from Spike Trotman’s Iron Circus Comics, the trailblazing comics publisher that has raised nearly 3 million dollars over more than 30 crowdfunding campaigns. Based on Tracy Butler’s Eisner Award-nominated webcomic, Lackadaisy features action and adventure, comedy and crime, and a colorful (if somewhat shady) cast of felines that frequent the Lackadaisy, a speakeasy tucked away in a cave beneath the Little Daisy Cafe. The joint’s packed full of gangsters, flappers, crooked cops, rum-runners, and wide-eyed ingenues. And they are, literally, all jazz cats. Lackadaisy: The Animated Short Film was originally crowdfunded to the tune of $330,000, thanks to almost 6,000 backers.