Category Archives: comics

Dog Interviews Moby’s Little Idiot

By tone | Published: September 13, 2009
Moby’s new album, Wait For Me,  fleshes another side of Moby’s creative side. He is a constant doodler of a little character simply called, Little Idiot. Moby’s album is a bit on the light side this time around. His love for independent and obscure comic books are the basis of this animated interview of his [...]
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Giant Size Spiderman Mural

By tone | Published: September 4, 2009
Forget your weekend paint job for your living room. Surface View is your solution, you can attach to your wall instant sticky murals of your favorite Marvel comic panels or covers. You can cover your whole wall with your friendly neighborhood web crawler. Surface View can accommodate you with many sizes to enhance your walls [...]
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Walt Disney Buys Marvel Comics

By tone | Published: August 31, 2009
The biggest news today is that Walt Disney bought Marvel Comics for four billion dollars. This acquisition will increase licensing deals and new amusement park attractions. Disney is positioning themselves as one of the biggest entertainment units in North America. They just keep getting bigger and diversifying to different tastes globally. Many licensing deals [...]
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Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: Graphic Novel

By tone | Published: August 5, 2009
Ray Bradbury will be turning a still very young 89 in spirit on August 22 at a bookstore in Glendale, California. He will celebrating with the release of his new graphic novel based on his award winning book, Fahrenheit 451. Sandbox World got an advance copy of the book. It’s an amazing interpretation of [...]
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Gigantor Statue

By tone | Published: August 3, 2009
Gigantor is still big in Japan, as Mickey Mouse was in North America. In Kobe, Japan, they are building a 59 foot Gigantor monument to pay homage to the great 60’s Anime cartoon that opened the floodgates to the western world. Gigantor is better know at home as Tetsujin-28. Fans will flock to the park [...]
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The Simpsons Awarded Guinness World Record for Longest Running Sitcom

By tone | Published: July 26, 2009
Can you believe it The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet holds the record for the longest running sitcom on TV which compiled 435 episodes. Well the king is dead. The Simpsons were officially crowned the new longest running sitcom ever in the world by the Guinness World Records at Comic-Con. Not only are they the [...]
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Captain Alpha Male

By tone | Published: July 20, 2009
Captain Alpha Male is a mild cross between Heroes and The Office. The web series makes light fun of the super-hero genre with a touch of the Office to boot. (link) Follow the adventures, misadventures and office politics as Captain Alpha Male leads a league of unusual superheroes in a quest for truth, justice and their [...]
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The Real Charlie Brown

By tone | Published: July 13, 2009
Since when is grief good? Not a according to Charlie Brown, Tim O’Brien’s brilliant interpretation of what Charlie Brown would look like in real life is scary at best. Imagine walking around with a head like that.
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Superhero Decadence by Donald Soffritti

By tone | Published: July 7, 2009
Italian cartoonist Donald Soffritti gives you a glimpse of what happens to Super-Heroes when they get older. Captain America died in the clutches of his nemesis in the current stories, but many of you suspected what we have know all along, Steve Rogers died a slow death of over consumption of fast-food when he got [...]
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The Last of the Funnies

By tone | Published: July 7, 2009
Stop the presses! The newspaper comics section is dying. The bread and butter of many newspapers has always been the comics section. That has dwindled for many years. The internet has put the final nail on the coffin for newspapers or perhaps reshaped it into something new. Either way the cartoonist is finding it hard [...]
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