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Bill Melendez Dies at 91

By tone | Published: September 4, 2008
Bill Melendez the man who animated Charlie Brown is dead at 91. One of the greatest animators who worked for the majors Disney and Warners. He stamped his own style with Peanuts and gave the world some of the best animated classic shows for all to remember. Read more>>
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Google Chrome

By tone | Published: September 2, 2008
Google Chrome is a new Google search engine for web enthusiasts who have time to fiddle with the new open source project. Pop culture comic book artist Scott McCloud the creator of the classic Understanding Comics, Making Comics and Zot! is having a banner year. If you wanted to explain a new project [...]
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Sexy Inc. Our Children Under Influence

By tone | Published: August 26, 2008
Sex sells. The visual media in general are over sexing our youth. The National Film Board of Canada has an interesting documentary about the exploitation of the youth culture who are exposed daily to sexual images and how it is having a profound influence in their thinking. Kids in their early teens [...]
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Ultraman Box Set

By tone | Published: August 18, 2008
Ultraman Box Set Ultraman is a generational thing in North America, if you were born between 1965 and 1975, most likely you will know who he is. Any generation after that will fall wayside of the pop culture hero. If you live in Japan, that is [...]
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Garfield is Dead

By tone | Published: August 3, 2008
Garfield is dead! Well erased from his own strip that is. A world without Garfield is a better world some will say. The famous and in some cases infamous feline comic strip has a love hate relationship with with many readers. When comic strips were stagnant in the 80’s, it was easy [...]
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Captain Biceps

By tone | Published: July 29, 2008
Renowned world creators Zep and Tebo (Tootuff) have unleashed famous properties such as Fly Tales, Malo Korrigan and the Space Tracers, Kaput & Z?sky and Flatmania. Many of the creations started out in album format in France. There is a big comic culture in Europe. Unlike North America most bodies of [...]
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Super Mario Kart Wedding Cake

By tone | Published: July 21, 2008
The Game of Life literally begins when you get married and you emulate one of your favorite games into the scheme of your special day. Seems everything is game under the sun when couples get together. Super Mario Kart had a moment to shine in the spotlight with this California couple in their [...]
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Leiji Matsumoto’s Captain Harlock on WiiWare

By tone | Published: June 29, 2008
Since the inception of video games, there has always been a comic book feel to many games. The comic book industry has always looked for venues to bring their creations to life either in Hollywood or in the gaming world. Nintendo Wii is making it easy [...]
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New Strawberry Shortcake

By tone | Published: June 19, 2008
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 [...]
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Hulk2 a Smash

By tone | Published: June 15, 2008
The Hulk would definitely fail any anger management control class. The second attempt to bring the Hulk to the big screen is a success with the emphasis on a more humane Bruce Banner that tips homage to the original TV series. The only reminiscent inkling of the first big screen [...]
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