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Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt’s The Animation Show, which is currently touring the US and Canada until June, is the one theatrical program I look forward to catching every year. With most theatrical animated screenings being of the slick, flashy celebrity-laden, three-dimensional variety, it warms my heart to know that Mike and Don are helping showcase some of the world’s best independent animated shorts.

Drawn! and The Animation Show are giving away 5 copies of The Animation Show Volumes 1 & 2 on DVD. The box set represents the first two years of the touring festival’s program and it’s a beauty. All the crowd-favourite pieces like Mike Judge’s original Milton short (which inspired his film Office Space) and interstitials by Don Hertzfeldt are on the discs, along with commentary on Don’s old-skool special effects wizardry. All my favourite shorts from the show are included, including Alex Budovsky’s Bathtime in Clerkenwell, Bill Plympton’s Guard Dog, and Koji Yamamura’s Atama-Yama, plus gobs more, and some new stuff that didn’t make the cut for the original tours.

For a chance to win one of the 5 sets of DVDs just send your name and mailing address to drawn.contests@gmail.com by midnight EST Monday, April 16th. and make sure to include the words ANIMATION SHOW in the subject of the e-mail. Winners will be chosen at random.