CEO Dad to be made into animated short
A couple of people emailed me with the announcement that CNBC is developing an animated series based on Tom Stern’s…
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Stan Lee makes appearance on Heroes television show
Did anyone notice that Stan Lee had a brief appearance in last night’s episode of Heroes? I noticed his name…
Tony Cochran to talk about Agnes on Ohio public television
Tony Cochran, creator of Agnes, is scheduled to appear on Ohio public television February 17-23 to talk about his journey…
Doonesbury television episodes on YouTube
From Drawn! is a link to a 1977 Doonesbury special that aired on network television. The episode (at least as…
Baldo is heading for the small screen
From the Baldo web site comes news that the world premiere of the first Baldo television episodes will showcased at…
Patrick McDonnell’s children’s book gets air-time on Today Show
Patrick McDonnell’s children’s book, Just Like Heaven was featured on the Today Show yesterday morning. The books publisher, Little Brown…
Mike Luckovich on Craig Ferguson
Rich Diesslin writes in to alert me that Mike Luckovich was on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson last…
New Peanuts special to air tonight
Just as a reminder, He’s a Bully, Charlie Brown, the last Peanuts animated special that Charles Schulz worked on before…
Gary Larson’s Tales from the Far Side posted on Google Video
Back in 1994, Gary Larson produced an animated TV feature called Tales from the Far Side. A copy of the feature has been posted to Google Video where you can view it for free (or at least until they take it down).
Great Pumpkin TV special to celebrate 40th year on television
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown will be celebrating its 40th anniversary on the air this Friday night. The Halloween special was created after the enormous success of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Also airing tomorrow night is You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown – another special created in 1972 about Linus running for school president. The show has a Great Pumpkin subplot.
Luckovich was on CNN to promote his book
Mike Luckovich was on CNN’s American Morning on Friday Oct 6th to promote his news book – Four More Wars…. And — but we did decide to make him not get off scot-free, he’s, in addition to talking about his book, “Four More Wars,” he’s drawing a cartoon for us. We’ll tell you about “Four More Wars” in a little bit.Let’s check in with him in his office there.
Charlie Brown special to air in November
A new Peanuts animated special will be aired on ABC in late November. The feature called Heâ??s a Bully, Charlie Brown and was the last animated project Charles Schulz worked on before his death in 2000. The special is being produced by Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez (the same individuals who have a long history of working on Charlie Brown animated movies and shows).
Coming soon, the complete animated series of Dick Tracy
Classic Media will be releasing a four disk set of the original Dick Tracy TV series that ran between 1961 and 1964 on September 26th to celebrate Dick Tracy’s 75th anniversary.Â
BYU Study: Cartoon stereotypes of elderly common and damaging
A study of children’s cartoons find that characters over the age of 55 are portrayed negatively 38% of the time according to a Brigham Young University study which analyzed 45 hours of Saturday morning and after-school programming.
Jef Mallett’s ‘Nevada Passage’ reality TV show on the air
Last May, I told you that Jef Mallett, creator of Frazz, was participating in a this year’s Nevada Passage – a 1000 mile adventure race…. The event has been filmed and will be airing on select stations around the country between now and February.