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Joust in Time?

Posted August 31, 2007

There is a story making rounds that Joust is going to be made into both a movie and comic book. I loved this game, it suckered me into dropping so many quarters in the machine till M.A.M.E. came around. To tell the truth I never went to all the levels, I just loved the sounds the game made. Now tell me is it a jest or does Joust has merit of movie fame. Time will tell.

Cosmic Family

Posted August 19, 2007

Cosmic Family

For many years since the inception of Pong, parents and teachers have asked for video games that teach while kids have fun. That’s like asking to take the sugar out of the chewing gum. Ubisoft thinks it has solved this question, by creating a very exciting game for the younger set of kids with the release of Cosmic Family. A game that can be fun and be a teaching tool at the same time. Every plan looks good on paper, the kids will be the final judges of the final verdict. The art and concepts are very kid friendly, but there are many savvy young literate gamers who might not go for an offering like this. The equation that makes this possible is the Wii system, it now has a whole new generation turned on to the system. The golden age generation find the system a great way to new found exercise and the kids are finding the same benefits with the system. Many companies such as Ubisoft are jumping on-board this system’s popularity and assimilated their games with this new technology in game playing. Cosmic Family is going the right direction and will hopefully open the flood gates to new games for the younger kids and not just have eye candy games that just are put in any console and never played again because of lack of interest.

Planet Puzzle League

Posted June 15, 2007

Use the DS stylus to grab panels and slide them left and right. If you match three or more panels of the same color, they will vanish. Form chains and combos to create cascading waterfalls of panels to rack up high scores!

The basic game play is similar to the classics Tetris Attack and Pokémon Puzzle League, but the touch screen gameplay adds a new dimension of fun, giving Planet Puzzle League a bright new feel!

Comic Book Creator: Teaching Tool

Posted March 28, 2007

Comic Book Creator is the versatile teaching tool that harnesses imaginations, engages critical thinking skills, and challenges students to create satisfying stories. Comic Book Creator is ideal for teaching across disciplines, because you can use almost any subject matter to create your content!

Take screenshot from inside your favorite PC games

Drag-and-drop into easy-to-use comic book templates

Choose fonts, colors, and effects with intuitive editors

Easily add text, effects, and balloons to your story

Create the story the way you want it to read

Save you comicbook as a PDF and share it online with friends

Print it out on your home printer to take with you

The Big Book of Pop Culture

Posted March 25, 2007

Here is a great how-to for the young artistic creative minds who want to make a splash in the pop culture. Be your own all media expert with this book that tackles all aspects of the entertainment portals.

Join indie-guru Hal Niedzviecki on a how-to journey through the world of pop culture. In his upbeat, spirited style, Niedzviecki first provides a quick history of entertainment — from its origins through to the present day, when corporate powers largely determine what we read, hear and watch.

Niedzviecki then shows how to reclaim cultural expression by encouraging everyone to use the tools of modern media: print (self-publishing zines, comics and books), video (making movies and shows), CD (creating original music) and the indie-paradise of the Internet (websites, blogs, video games). Quick and easy do-in-a-day project ideas are included, so emerging artists will feel ready to tackle more ambitious works.

Punctuated by inspiring interviews with young creators, engaging sidebars, and zine-style graphics that capture the spirit of the indie movement, The Big Book of Pop Culture is an empowering guide to original artistic expression.

How to Draw and Paint Crazy Cartoon Characters

Posted March 10, 2007

How to Draw and Paint Crazy Cartoon Characters: Create Original Characters with Lots of Personality

Aspiring cartoon artists, comic book collectors, and nostalgia buffs will discover a happy combination of cartoon history and practical instruction in this color-illustrated book. It teaches art students dozens of ways to simplify, exaggerate, and distort the people, animals, and objects in their illustrations to achieve hilarious effects. An overview of cartoon history showcases humorous characters as they appeared in nineteenth-century satire, in children’s books, in cartoons of the 1920s, in Hollywood animation of the 1940s, and in today’s manga and anime cartoons. The author shows how to create cartoons using a wide range of media, from pen and ink to paint and pixels. Art students will get tips on making their cartoons interesting with funny props and laughter-evoking backgrounds. Most important are the comic character types that they place in their illustrations’ foregrounds. Here’s how to create stock types—the idiot, the cutie-pie, the comic hero, the evil genius, the loyal sidekick, the straight man, and the heavy. Here, too, are imaginative ways to costume different characters, give them funny poses, and dramatize their emotions through facial expressions, such as fear, anger, boredom, amusement, or surprise. A final chapter advises beginning cartoonists on how to build a portfolio, present their work, create a web site, and find an agent and steady work. More than 300 illustrations.

Sandbox World Going Print Form

Posted March 2, 2007

I am happy to announce that Sandbox World is going print form for a Spring/Summer edition. We are printing for this year quarterly editions. If things go well we will go monthly. Thank you for the many printing houses who email us with book suggestions and the great blog artists and webtoonists who want to showcase their art. If any of you want to jump on our offline edition of Sandbox World be free to contact me and we will see if we can include you in our edition. There is still room to sponsors. Contact

Transformers in Disguise

Posted February 21, 2007

If you thought the big budgets coming from Hollywood are the sole industry who can produce great animation, think again. Kaktus Film, Sweden’s premier design agency for motion graphics and 3D animation can give Hollywood a run at any of their top studios. With the hype of Transformers:The Movie in the horizon, you got to admire work like this.

Cartoon Network Racing

Posted February 20, 2007

My kids are real little gamers and games like CN Cartoon Network Racing is such a pleasure to watch kids play. The art rendering is amazing, it’s a long way from Pong. In the game you’ll also find 12 complete episodes of Cartoon Network series as an unlockable bonus! The game is also on Nintendo DS.

Cartoon Network Racing pits your favorite characters from Cartoon Network’s original shows in a Kart Racing tournament against each other. Race with characters from The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter’s Laboratory, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Cow and Chicken, I.M. Weasel, and Johnny Bravo, and … Just select your favorite driver, co-driver and weapons and you’re ready to go! This is no ordinary race - players experience a wild and wacky ride as they battle through 24 different circuits of cartoon craziness, collecting power-ups, eliminating their rivals, rocking and socking their way to victory! The Rules of Racing are simple: win! Be the first to cross the line and you’ll win the race. Sounds easy? Not when you’re competing against rival drivers, each out to win! Add crazy hazards, weapons, power-ups and more and you’ll see why this is no walk in the park!

Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S.

Posted December 19, 2006

Roland Kelts has a new book called "Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S." and it will dazzle you. It’s all around us. Silently since the early 70’s Japan has invaded television, the comic industry and the gaming world. It’s in all the book stores and just flip through any animation channel and the Japanese pop culture is abound in glory. Even Pete Townshend endorses the invasion.

–Pete Townshend, The Who
"Japanamerica is the book I have been waiting for. It tells the incredible story of the way the colorful and eccentric world of Japanese entertainment and popular art has enriched our lives in the West. But it also deals with why it has a poetry that has taken Americans many years to understand and feel able to echo. Japan’s holocaust was equally traumatic to the ones experienced by many Americans, and perhaps more sudden, more extreme and more focused. This story shows how today we all use movies, comics, music, art and advertising to face our past and its traumas, rather than to escape. The Japanese methods of facing the past are restrained and unusual, but ultimately glorious, and mean more to us in our post-9/11 era than ever they could before. Roland Kelts, part American, part Japanese, brings real insight to the way this union of hearts and souls through entertainment will continue to grow and draw two very different worlds together

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