The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain Seems only like yesterday when when the world was divided by the iron curtain. The Wall: Growing…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
If there were a place anybody would want to be in November till December for the holidays, it would have to be New York. You…
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…
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…
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…
The Boy with Two Belly Buttons My 8 year daughter is curious about anatomy in general. She came home last night and asked me why…
Luck of the Loch Ness Monster: A Tale of Picky Eating Parents are always trying to find ways to tell picky eaters to eat properly…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Dino-Hockey (Carolrhoda Picture Books) Didn’t the ice-age do the dinosaurs in. Apparently not, the dinosaurs took up hockey in this exciting Jurassic confrontation not seen…
Angry Little Girls (Running Press Minature Edition) Anger management has some new poster girls. If Lucy from Peanuts went the extra mile then she would…
Beetle Bailey: Complete Collection Seems Beetle Bailey has been in service for the longest time. Fifty-seven years and counting and still I don’t know what war he…
Paul Dini has signed to do a screenplay for the new exciting CG animated movie called Gatchaman for 2009. Most people know Gatchaman as "Battle of the…
GoComics has picked up what I believe will be the next Calvin And Hobbes in the comic strip business. The Sunday Funnies just don’t have…
If you can’t beat them join them, or in this case rip them. Knight Rider is coming back to NBC, with a twist. K.I.T.T. the…
Barbie Girls Business is getting tougher all over. Mattel toys is no different from any other business model. With sagging sales for Barbie, they came…
Parade (with fireworks!) is a free online comic, that was recently published by Image Comics. This is a great piece of free comic book work.…
The Adventures of Tintin: Collector’s Gift Set Like rippled waves that hit the shore, Tintin will slowly be making a big splash on the American…
Graphic novels and manga are exploding like mushrooms all over North America. The major publishing companies are grabbing anything that comes down the pike after…
In 1980, a short-lived series called "Force Five" emerged, presenting five Toei Doga anime shows packaged together and produced by Jim Terry Productions. One of these anime series was "GRANDIZER."