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My cousin came over from Canada with all the American comics, which I loved, and I copied Jim Fitzpatrick." Morrissey was the soundtrack to his teenage years and comics were a passion. His family had moved to Kilkenny from the North of Ireland and as a comic-obsessed "oddball" in a hurling-mad school - St Kieran's - he was bound to stand out. Like his young protagonist in Wolfwalkers, he was something of an outsider growing up. He paints his nails with his granddaughter Mara (today they're Emo black) and shines with relatable nerdish enthusiasm when discussing the comics and movies from his own salad years. Moore himself comes across like a man still in touch with the whimsy and fun of childhood. A lot of mythology deals with that period, when we are on the cusp of life." There's something magical about that transition time, going from being a child to an adult, a moving from accepting everything that society and your parents have told you, to finding your own identity. A few hundred years ago, just being an artist might have been enough to make someone an outsider, now it's other things. "One of our editors early on said, 'you know this is a coming out movie, it's going to mean a lot to a lot of people' and I said, 'oh yeah, I can see that.' I think these kinds of metaphors and analogies are why mythology lasts as long as it does. Tomm Moore is concerned about the urgency of climate change, and the future that faces his granddaughter. Moore says he's not surprised that some people have read LGBT narratives into the metaphor of transformation within the film. Moore and Wolfwalkers co-director Ross Stewart drew on Irish myth for the story but its themes feel current. The angular austerity of the town - rendered in sharp, woodcut-like lines - and the sensuous swirls of the forest beyond the walls - even on the small screen (its cinema run was curtailed due to the pandemic but it's now available on Apple TV+), mean it's a visual banquet. She arrives to the town with her father, a hunter, who is tasked by the locals to eliminate the native wolf population, but Robyn finds things are not all that straightforward after befriending a local girl in forbidden lands that lie outside the town's walls. The final piece of a loose folkloric trilogy (the others being Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea) tells the story of a young English girl, Robyn, who is an outsider in a 17th-century Irish town. In the best sense, that much is clear from Wolfwalkers, which is another leap forward from Cartoon Saloon's previous films. With the buzz, there is a chance, but it's not my first rodeo." I am glad we've gone from being a complete outsider to being a definite contender, but I think it's going to be a difficult year because Soul is an incredible movie. Both times when Cartoon Saloon has been nominated for an Oscar, either Pixar or its parent company, Disney, has walked away with the award, so it's understandable that Wolfwalkers' co-director Tomm Moore says, "I'm not counting chickens. In a sense it's déjà vu for the Kilkenny-based company.
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When the Oscar nominations are announced later next month, the same battle lines will be drawn. Wolfwalkers, an animated jewel of a feature by the Irish studio, is one of the contenders, but the favourite is Soul, Pixar's latest box office behemoth. When the Golden Globes go virtual on March 1, Cartoon Saloon will once again be a hand-drawn David to the CGI Goliath of a major studio.