Strawberry Shortcake is getting a face-lift. American Greetings Properties the owners of Strawberry Shortcake worked over a year to update the popular 80’s icon for young girls. Hasbro unveiled a whole new line of toys based on the slick new ?fruit-forward? makeover, a phrase coined by the rights holder. When characters [...]
Posted on May 22, 2008, , by tone, under
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Dumm Comics is a unique idea. It’s not everyday animators pool their talents together and create an online line of weekly strips. Heavily influenced by their background, the strips look like cels of animation frozen to capture the essence of the strips. The line so far will have the following [...]
Posted on May 9, 2008, , by tone, under
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It’s always a treat to see Fantagraphic’s Ghost World artist Dan Clowes doing New Yorker magazine covers. This week he managed to do two variant covers for our captive eyes.
Posted on March 26, 2008, , by tone, under
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It’s hard to stay ahead of the game when you are up against a juggernaut such as Marvel and DC comics. Andy Runton has paved his own road for many years with Owly. His creation Owly is for all ages. He has created along with his mother Patty Runton lesson plans in [...]
Posted on March 1, 2008, , by tone, under
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100 Days Of Monsters (with DVD)
Here is a new trend that will flow into many other mediums, the norm as of late as witnessed by "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" an online illustrated diary has found success in printed form an other sites are reaping the rewards as publishers [...]
Posted on February 26, 2008, , by tone, under
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The kids are alright at Drawn and Quarterly with the upcoming new collected works of master cartoonist Doug Wright. Doug Wright is comparable in Canadian hierarchy in the cartooning world as a Charles Schultz. There is not much on Doug Wright when it comes to published material, however, Seth and [...]
Posted on February 13, 2008, , by tone, under
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Mad Kids
The majority of well known publishers at one time and many still cater to kids with a spin-off versions of their "adult" magazines. Now Mad magazine has at one time been considered as a juvenile magazine by many parents when Mad was a pop phenomena. Now going [...]
Posted on February 13, 2008, , by tone, under
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Photoshop can be an intimidating program with people who don’t have a learning curve. Photoshop comes down in a strip down version with the Elements package or the CS one. Trade Loeffler the online artist of Zip and Li’l Bit comics, a regular on Lunchbox Funnies has a new exciting feature [...]
Posted on February 7, 2008, , by tone, under
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Bubblegum cards are not what they used to be. In my youth, if you had pocket change you bought yourself a pack of cards. They were not collector items. Embedded in the cards was this distinctive stick of gum with a powdery covering that made the cards smell of bubblegum. [...]
Posted on February 4, 2008, , by tone, under
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In the industry the regular staff at Mad Magazine are known as "the usual gang of idiots", they gave the reigns to some of the top Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists in the industry free reign to bushwhack their good old president of the United States. This is a ploy [...]
Posted on January 27, 2008, , by tone, under
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The Art of Captain Scarlet
Captain Scarlet was one of those Supermarionation TV series by Gerry Anderson that had a very realistic feel to it. Unlike Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet was very close to real life as any of the Anderson puppet creations. Always fueled by outlandish stories [...]
Posted on January 23, 2008, , by tone, under
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The DC Comics Action Figure Archive
For the legions that collect the immensely popular DC Comics action figures, we have good news: the official visual compendium of more than 1,400 characters has finally arrived. The DC Comics Action Figure Archive is the definitive reference for the serious enthusiast. Assembled [...]
Posted on January 10, 2008, , by tone, under
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I am not much of a gamer but Lego is doing amazing things with cross promotional characters such as Batman. Having had success with their Lego Star Wars, they plunged into Bat-mania and got themselves a winner of a game. What platforms will they be released? With a character like Batman, I [...]
Posted on January 10, 2008, , by tone, under
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The Crack BookDepending how one sees it, there are many cracks and they come in different sizes. Eric Decetis has cornered the market when it comes to cracks and his one panels will crack up literally.
Those who possess [...]
Posted on January 6, 2008, , by tone, under
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It’s America’s favorite modern stone-age family! (Actually, it’s their neighbors.) Packaged in a nifty plastic TV set, this classic TV couple comes out of the stone age and into your home. Each vinyl figure measures about 7-inches tall. Complete with their stone-themed TV packaging, Barney and Betty Rubble are sure [...]
