Banned Book of Dr. Seuss!
Do You Know What I’m Going to Do Next Saturday?
Did you ever beat more than one kid at a time? Well, I’m going to beat five kids at a time. And then I’m going to beat their fathers, too.
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Archive for the ‘Cartoons’ Category
Grumpy Old Man
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
Talk about a grumpy old man, seems old Charlie Schulz had a few skeletons in his closet and Carl Jung would have field day with his comic strip. Charlie was reflecting his life in his strip. His bitter wife was of course in vein of [...]
Hank Ketcham’s Complete Dennis the Menace 1957-1958
Hank Ketcham’s Complete Dennis the Menace 1957-1958 (Vol. 4)
Peanuts was cerebral in many levels. Hank Ketcham’s Dennis the Menace was a one panel fast paced gag of mischievous child behavior. Denis was the embodiment of every plotting kid in North America. I grew up in an environment in [...]
Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking
As import characters go, Pippi Longstocking, has a certain appeal to young girls as being a tomboy type of hero. I don’t think the character has really caught on full force like other European characters in the past 50 years. There are many strong characteristics to [...]
Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art
Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art
Here is a book for kids and those who want to either draw or write childrens’ books. A real behind the scenes look at what goes into a book from concept to final product. This should [...]
Astro Boy the Movie in CGI
In robotic terms, the best way to describe Astro Boy would be Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein were a scientist creates life not of rotten flesh but from electronic circuits. Ever wonder where they got the idea for the movie AI: Artificial Intelligence, well in Astro Boy a scientist builds a robot in the [...]
Schulz and Peanuts
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
David Michaelis’s biography, "Schulz and Peanuts," is a bag of mixed nuts. Sooner or later somebody is going to rattle the Schultz legacy. Seen by many as the perfect father and cartoonist who had a grasp on life. But by the end of [...]
Comic Art
Comic Art 9
Keep your eyes on the prize. At one time getting the free prize in a box of cereal was nirvana. You would dig through the sugar laced box to get your cherished prize. This feeling came over me when I got the new Comic Art [...]
Skelly the Skeleton Girl
Skelly the Skeleton Girl
Jimmy Pickering works his fingers to the bone and in the process has become a cutesy macabre illustrator with his Skelly the Skeleton Girl. Skelly has the daunting task of finding a purloined bone that Skelly discovers and she tries to locate its owner and gets [...]
The Tin Man
The Tin Man is coming. Here is a brave new spin on the The Wizard of Oz by the Sc-Fi Channel. Richard Dreyfuss stars in this movie, funny thing he also had a movie called Tin Men with Danny DeVito 20 years ago.
AMERICAN MASTERS: Good Ol’ Charles Schulz
Charlie Brown will get a rock once again this Halloween but PBS will get the life of Charlie Schulz for the American Master series this fall. In "Good Ol’ Charles Schulz," AMERICAN MASTERS presents an unexpected portrait of the man behind the most popular comic strip in history. The feature-length documentary [...]
Dog Trick or Cat Treat: Pets Dress Up for Halloween
Dog Trick or Cat Treat: Pets Dress Up for Halloween
I will never understand dog owners who dress up there dogs, now they have gone to the extreme. They are putting dogs in Halloween costumes. Why? I would never put my dog through this. It’s a dog eat [...]
The Art of William Steig
The Art of William Steig
The cream of the crop, in the middle part of the 20th century, a New Yorker magazine cartoonist was king of his domain. They had jobs all over the place, from advertising to children’s books. They could do no wrong. William Steig was a [...]
Time After Time
Timing is everything. Young film students are creating great little CGI animated shorts on Youtube. Here is another perfect example of creative film making by students of the Sup’infograph in France.
There’s Nothing to Do on Mars
There’s Nothing to Do on Mars
Seems the world’s nations are gunning to land on Mars. Every media outlet is leaking the buzz word of Mars and the possibilities of landing there and finding water. Why wait? Davey Martin’s family could not wait, so they decided to go [...]