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Saving Rudolph

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Cartoon Brew points us to Screen Novelties News which has a harrowing tale of the restoration of the original Rankin/Bass puppets used to make RuDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER. The puppets were in bad...

Vaughan is LOST

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On his MySpace blog, Brian K. Vaughan reveals he's doing the reverse commute: Sorry I've been so coy about these rumors, but I always like to wait until the contracts have been signed and the...

Kupperman Funhouse

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Found on YouTube via The Comics Journal Message board, two cartoons from Michael Kupperman which aired on Saturday Night Live as part of the TV Funhouse series. First up...the amazing Pablo Picasso! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b59yD9P61zI&w=425&h=350] Next...CAPTAIN MARGINAL,...

Nerd dream continues unabated

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Just pinch Masi Oka, the nerd turned actor on HEROES. Now he has been nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance as Hiro Nakamura, super powered otaku. While Oka was the sole acting...

Nerd Catch Phrases, among others

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TV Land has released a list of the top 100 TV Catch phrases, and while we think political speeches don't quite qualify, it's still a useful list, with several entries from nerd world, which...

PREACHER to HBO

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Although the rumor had previously been pooh-poohed by Garth Ennis himself, it seems that PREACHER is indeed in development as a mini-series at HBO. The pay cable network is developing a one-hour series based on...

Type-casting: guy who plays nerd on TV is a nerd in real life

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Masi Oka has become a hero to geeks around the world. Once a mild-mannered effects guy at ILM now he's starring in TV smash HEROES as Hiro, a nerd who gets superpowers. In an...

Tim Sale on HEROES

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As is widely known, Tim Sale is the "ghost artist" for the painter character on HEROES, and over at Newsarama Zack Smith finds out everything you would want to know about the gig: Newsarama: Starting...

Alan Moore to appear on the Simpsons

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Can Alan Moore get any more cuddly? Warren Ellis posted along this link from a Northhampton newspaper, and it's too late for April Fools: Alan Moore will guest on THE SIMPSONS: Moore, aged 53,...

Morning briefing: THEM/SIX

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An obscure Image B&W one-shot entitled SIX by Michael Avon Oeming, Daniel Berman and Ethen Beavers will be turned into a TV pilot, now called THEM. Terminator 3's Jonathan Mostow, Battlestar Galactica's David Eick...

Marvel proves comics ARE soap operas

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Stare at this picture a long time, my children. It represents the strangest crossover yet, the team--up you ever DREAMED you'd see: Marvel and Guiding Light, a day time soap. Now you may be...

Moon Knight readies for eventual download on iTunes

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Moon Knight, the superhero with more secret identities than ties created by Doug Moench and Don Perlin, is being developed for a TV series. The pr refers to him as a "cult favorite,"...

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