INTERNET ANIMATION

Editoonist Scott Bateman, who, we reported, just lost his gig doing daily animation at Salon.com, is back, albeit with a weekly, not a daily, animation. He speculated that this unexpected turn of events was brought about because his cartoons generated traffic at the website, adding that Salon, unlike HuffingtonPost, pays him. He now has more spare time, which he is investing in creating an animated feature film in Flash. He’s not the first to make a feature film in Flash, he says, deferring to the pioneering Nina Paley, who produced “Sita Sings the Blues,” which has won several distinguished awards. She may at last have found her niche: she’s made at least one syndication attempt that failed; maybe two. Her comics for alternative newspapers did fairly well, but she couldn’t achieve success with more mainstream efforts. You can see a tantalizing teaser of Paley’s film at sitasingstheblues.com, a scintillating visual treat. Bateman’s work on his film can be viewed at atomagevampikre.org; his animated cartoons at batemanimation.com.