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After all, people have happily watched a brainy, densely layered dysfunctional-family sitcom on Fox for 15 years: The Simpsons. With that in mind, Fox moved Arrested Development to the slot right after its cartoon powerhouse. The move, on top of the Emmy, should give TV's best comedy its best chance--and maybe its last. However much Emmy hardware Arrested Development wins, it ultimately needs to make money. "This is a business," says Arnett. "The Coke commercials are not filling the gap between our segments. We are filling in the gap between the Coke commercials." Back in the makeup...
Brad Bird felt that tug of loyalties in the '90s when, as a Disney-trained animator who had helped launch The Simpsons, he was trying to get backing for cartoon features he would direct. Except for The Iron Giant, a critically praised fable that didn't do Lion King business, "I was always getting my films on the runway, but I wasn't getting them off the ground," recalls Bird, sitting in the huge playpen that is Pixar headquarters in the San Francisco suburb of Emeryville. "And I wanted so bad to make movies. I also had a family that...
Wait a minute. This is a Pixar cartoon? Instead of toys, bugs, monsters or funny fish, we get a midlife crisis and, in the first half-hour, enough domestic strife to fill a Mike Leigh film. But yes, this is Pixar, the studio that pretty much invented and perfected computer-animation entertainment, with such spectacular success that it wiped out the traditional approach that its distribution partner, Disney, had virtually patented. (The two animation titans have fallen into a rancorous dispute that's likely to end with Pixar's boss, Steve Jobs, taking the company elsewhere...
...white comic about three odd-looking creatures lost in a valley of dragons, talking bugs and rat creatures, his efforts seemed like folly. But the series grew into an award-winning favorite of cool kids and hip adults. Now finished and collected as a 1,300-page softcover (Cartoon Books), Bone combines the humor and look of early Disney movies with the scope of the Lord of the Rings cycle. A former animator, Smith draws characters that are both cute and scary, and he infuses every panel with dynamic energy. While children will read Bone for its breathless adventure...