Notable quotables
§ Tintin Pantoja goes to a comicon in INDONESIA!:
Since I couldn't attend MoCCA this year, I dropped by an Indonesian analogue- KONDEFEST- this weekend....
We’re not just imagining these things, you know
Old Disney Rejection Letter via Boing Boing.
UPDATE: to those who thought this was not a form letter --- nope, it was SOP.
Land of a thousand links
A lot of stuff to catch up on. So just the quick hits:
§ John Jakala looks at manga that don't hold up over multiple...
PERSEPOLIS film removed in Thailand
Thai officials have cancelled a screening of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis after complaints from the Iranian Embassy:
The Bangkok International Film Festival has dropped the Cannes...
RATATOUILLE
Last night, I was lucky enough to catch an early screening of RATATOUILLE, the new Brad Bird movie from Pixar. After THE IRON GIANT,...
SPEED RACER toon zooms to TV
We were at the Licensing Show yesterday but will have to present out picture parade tomorrow. Lots of Speed Racer news, however, including the...
Thunderbirds are STILL GO!
A few days ago we were fretting that THUNDERBIRD fandom might be dying out/. The evidence? An excessive number of Geocities pages and dead...
Robot Chicken Star Wars
http://www.superdeluxe.com/static/swf/share_vidplayer.swf
The entirety of the ROBOT CHICKEN all-STAR WARS episode is up at Super Deluxe, and it has a few funny bits...but is it just...
Yen Press teams with the WB
Among the more interesting news items at the BEA was the trade show debit of Yen Press. While almost every major publishing house is...
PERSEPOLIS shares Jury Prize at Cannes
The animated PERSEPOLIS, co-directed by Marjana Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud has shared the Jury Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The film tells...
Fan-made Fletcher Hanks toon
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IRVMz-hn4g&w=425&h=350]
Via Flog.
PERSEPOLIS movie reviews
Cinematical LOVE
Watching Persepolis -- an animated adaptation of Marjane Satrapi's best-selling graphic novel memoir -- I didn't just feel excited intellectually and artistically; I...
