Hard Drinkin' Lincoln

*Hard Drinkin' Lincoln*
Hard Drinkin' Lincoln
Created by	Mike Reiss
Directed by	Xeth Feinberg
Voices of	Jim Ward; Jocelyn Blue; Tress MacNeille; Maurice LaMarche
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	16
Production
Running time	approx. 3 minutes
Original release
Release	2000 –; 2002

Hard Drinkin' Lincoln is a Macromedia Flash Internet cartoon series produced in 2000 for the Internet animation company Icebox.com. The series was created by Mike Reiss and directed by Xeth Feinberg. Unlike Reiss and Feinberg's later series for Icebox, Queer Duck, Hard Drinkin' Lincoln did not receive attention from other media outlets.

Synopsis

The series portrays Abraham Lincoln (voiced by Jim Ward) as a boorish alcoholic who enjoys pestering his wife Mary Todd Lincoln (voiced by Jocelyn Blue, later Tress MacNeille) and causing trouble during shows at Ford's Theatre.^[1] Many episodes end with Hard Drinkin' Lincoln being shot by John Wilkes Booth (the main antagonist, voiced by Maurice LaMarche), often to the delight of bystanders.^[2] Other historical figures who appear in the episodes include Jenny Lind, Mohandas Gandhi, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee and Frederick Douglass. Creator Reiss explained: "What makes me proud of 'Hard Drinkin' Lincoln' is that it's a totally undeserved attack. The comedy comes from the fact that this man did nothing to deserve this."^[3]

Credits

Written & Created by: Mike Reiss
Directed & Produced by: Xeth Feinberg
Voices: Jim Ward, Jocelyn Blue, Maurice LaMarche, Kath Soucie, Kevin Michael Richardson, Tress MacNeille
Animation Director & Designer: Xeth Feinberg
Music by: Xeth Feinberg and Sam Elwitt
Theme Music by: Sam Elwitt
Executive Producer: Mike Reiss

References

^ Schwartz, Barry (2008). Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America. University of Chicago Press. p. 163. ISBN 9780226741901.
^ Brown, Thomas J (2011). Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial. JHU Press. p. 9. ISBN 9781421403786.
^ Anthony, Ted (February 20, 2005). "Lincoln Belongs to the Ages -- and the Marketplace". LA Times.

External links

Hard Drinkin' Lincoln at IMDb

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[1] Schwartz, Barry (2008). Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America. University of Chicago Press. p. 163. ISBN 9780226741901.

[2] Brown, Thomas J (2011). Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial. JHU Press. p. 9. ISBN 9781421403786.

[3] Anthony, Ted (February 20, 2005). "Lincoln Belongs to the Ages -- and the Marketplace". LA Times.

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