Disney?s Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Disney is going to the dogs. How can you go wrong with the latest from Disney. They proved many wrong with Underdog, now Cheech Marin will voice a new CG movie about a Chihuahua [...]
After many false starts, The Prisoner, looks to have legs once again to make it as a new re-versioned series. Now for every time that announcement came out would equal the attempts Number Six tried to escape the village. Christopher Eccleston is rumored once again to play Number Six. For those [...]
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick is the latest in many projects with Lego and M2 Films for Cartoon Network?s Toonami. The latter have enjoyed success with Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick CG animation in the past. The drive behind these shows comes from [...]
John Read is putting his best foot forward with a valiant new quarterly magazine about cartooning with the apropos name of Stay Tooned! Magazine. The magazine caters to the artistic inclined cartoonist who wants to find out more about his craft and how the masters of past and present go about their business. It [...]
Child’s Play: The Berenstain Baby Boom, 1946-1964: Cartoon Art by Stan and Jan BerenstainSome artists become formulating in their ways as a certain work finds success. Stan and Jan Berenstain before the "Bear" fame were toiling with gag cartoons in McCall’s, The Saturday Evening Post, and other publications of the time between 1946 until [...]
Beetle Bailey Volume 1 By Mort Walker
Checker Book Publishing Group is becoming the Criterion of the comic strip industry. They are polishing forgotten treasures for us to once again re-discover. Beetle Bailey is one of those quirky strips that has made waves year [...]
Flight Explorer, Volume One
Flight is one of those gems that comes out every year and worth waiting for. You beg for more, and more we shall get. I am pretty sure there is a conscious effort to bring a well packaged product for all ages with quality stories [...]
There is the McDonald’s kiddie attitude out there in the publishing world that if you hook them young you can have them for life as customers. WWE is always seen as kid’s fare at best with their convoluted controlled violence for the masses. They publish also magazines about their [...]
Give them a "Bone". Warner Brothers has acquired the film rights to Jeff Smith’s much acclaimed self published series. With hard work and perseverance, good things will happen. With a solid run of continuous selling of Scholastic’s colored versions of Jeff’s original black and white [...]
So begins my quest for this year to find original art hidden through out the city of Montreal. Montreal is a vibrant city of multi-cultured people spawning mosaic origins from all over the world. I am sure the art I will find can found and [...]
Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938, Vol. 1 the DVD collection was at most a farce. This overly priced set was only meant for the serious collector and alienated the regular folks and the little ones with an over priced 4 disc set of quality cartoons. Least we forget, cartoons were made for [...]
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Multi player games are all the rage. How can you stand up in the crowd? You give it away for free, that is exactly what Dofus is all about. It’s the fastest growing free online game out there. The graphics are rich and a challenge to play. Nothing really [...]
Posted on January 20, 2008, , by tone, under
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With the scandal with steroids in sports and readership at an all-time low with newspapers, it’s sad to see halcyon times where newspapers had sports cartoonists and leading the pack was Willard Mullin. He could pack a mean brush and publicize baseball and explore the myths behind each team. Now these [...]
Posted on January 13, 2008, , by tone, under
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Simplicity is the rule of the game. If you live in a metropolitan city, graffiti is abound, to some junk, to others gold. That is exactly what Keith Haring found in New York when he bailed out on his commercial art tendencies, he went to the roots and joined the underground. [...]
Posted on November 20, 2007, , by tone, under
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Do Not Open
With a bold statement like that, what kid will not pry open this book. The world can now be your oyster with this little offering that will unravel all the world’s secrets for the young ones and present you with a few surprises for [...]
