Tag: Cartoons
Gene Deitch’s Nudnik joins Tumblr, Twitter and so on
As long as we're talking about the groovy 60s, the angular, sketchy cartoons of Gene Deitch (father of Kim) were a staple of the decade, from Tom and Jerry to Tom Terrific. Fantagraphics recently...
Johnny Ryan and Dave Cooper’s Pig Goat Banana Cricket will entertain innocent children on...
One specializes in beautifully rendered erotic paintings of Rubenesque women. The other is a comics bad boy known for his hilarious X-rated comics soaked in jizz, blood, and severed penises. Together they have created...
The Powerpuff Girls are back today! And here are all the retail variant covers
Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup are back! The proto riot-grrls of Saturday morning were created by Craig McCracken for the Cartoon Network back in 1998, and created an immediate sensation. While the show hasn't been...
Mark the Tenth Birthday of ‘Hey Ya!’ with Peanuts
Joe Hughes points out the painful fact that Outkast's 'Hey Ya!', the song that led us from post 9/11 PTSD, that taught us how to shake it in the early years of social media,...
Kupperman Kartoon: Twain’s Garbage River Rambles
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Cartoonist Michael Kupperman is, as we all know one of the world's funniest humans. Tales Designed to Thrizzle proves that. He's also obsessed with Mark Twain, something also proved by Thrizzle. And now, he's...
Badger’s Star Trek Pie Eating Contest from Breaking Bad is already animated
Although it only aired Sunday night, in a Flash (heh heh get it????) Vulture hired Matt Czap to animate the proposed Star Trek episode pitched in a stoned haze by supprting character Badger. The story involves pie and a transporter, may possibly be a sequel to Stand By Me, and was actually debated for years on the Breaking Bad set.
Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer writing the Metal Men for DC Nation
Well. when he isn't talking about how to deal with rejection, it turns out Evan Dorkin and partner Sarah Dyer have been writing some Metal Men shorts for DC Nation. This is a particularly...
Riddick Motion Comic explains how a three-picture epic went back to a smaller action...
THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK is one of my favorite SF films of the last decade, even though it's a mad jumble of elements: wanted criminal Riddick, last of the Furyons, necromongers, scheming for a...
Burka Avenger — Pakistan’s First Animated Female Superhero
The best superhero stories are all about inspiring people, and the first trailer for Burka Avenger, the first-ever animated series produced in Pakistan, certainly does that. Created by Haroon - one of the bigger...
SDCC ’13: To Do – Adventure Time ConQuest!
If you're going to wander around exhausted and bewildered at The Con, you might as well have a reason. That's where this year's Adventure Time ConQuest comes in, an actual quest for treasure among...
Gender-shifting superhero may save Hub cartoon channel
Hub, a cable channel for kids owned by Discovery and Hasbro, is hoping its new cartoon "SheZow" can turn the channel's fortunes around.
Hub has struggled to gain viewers since its debut in 2010, but...
Marvel’s ‘Next Big Thing’ Call – Avengers Assemble!
Phone time! Earlier today our lovely old antique phone started ringing from somewhere in Stately Beat Mansion's attic, so I braved the cabinets and cobwebs to pick up the receiver and see what was going on. It turned out Marvel Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada, VP of Animation Cort Lane and Executive Producer, Man Of Action Studio's Joe Kelly were on the line, to discuss the new Marvel cartoon series Avengers Assemble which'll be airing on Disney XD!
