© Fresh Animation. Art by Kevin Karstens from an idea by Bawdy Bard (click to increase in size). Posted by the Web-Ed on 01/11/2013.
We weren't familiar with the animated teen soap-opera 6teen, which originated in Canada and ran on the Cartoon Network in the U.S., until Bawdy Bard sent us this cartoon along with several others that sprang from his delightfully deviant imagination. 6teen is a coming of age series about a group of sixteen-year-olds who work, play, and generally hang out at Galleria Shopping Mall. The characters, seen here as they would look a couple of years later (8teen, you might say), are Darth Mall, geeky Star Wars super-fan, and Nikki Wong, on whom he had a long-time crush.
Nikki seems less interested in Star Wars trivia than she does in getting a good spanking, which Darth is only too happy to provide while indulging in some role-play at the same time. Both the conception and the execution of this cartoon neatly balance humor and eroticism: Bard's contrast of the specific form desire takes in the geeky Darth and the rather pragmatic Nikki, and Karstens' animation-style but realistically-proportioned character drawing.
