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...YOUR CARTOON FEATURE "YOU CALL THAT Intelligent?", about the controversy involving those who reject evolutionary theory in favor of "intelligent design" [July 4], missed one angle. I think God, to keep things interesting, pretends not to exist, leaving wiggle room for both atheists and believers. Evolution is both deniable and breathtaking, and once you understand it, awe and humility result...
OCCUPATION: Underachieving, overweight patriarch of award-winning prime-time cartoon household the Griffins...
OCCUPATION: Underachieving, overweight patriarch of award-winning prime-time cartoon household the Simpsons...
Disney is no stranger to China. The company debuted there in the late 1930s, when the cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was screened in Shanghai. Today Disney sells Mickey Mouse gear through 1,100 Disney Corner outlets, and it wants to double that number over the next year. Disney movies and TV programs, like the popular Dragon Club series, appear on local television. With 24 hours of programming a week, Disney claims to be the largest foreign provider of films for Chinese TV. Disney's wholesome fare has given the company a leg up on getting its movies...
...Yellowstone National Park. What could be more American than a road trip to Yellowstone? A month and a half's worth of strips detail the adventures, with each daily location noted in the lower corner, "Cedar Rapids, IA ? Hastings, Neb. ? Yuma, Col.," etc. It may be the first ever cartoon travelogue. King's interest in America's pastoral wilderness would become a recurring theme in the series, especially in the color Sunday strips. (The publisher intends to reprint them separately.) The color Sundays reveal King's extraordinary visual imagination, often incorporating entirely fanciful, dreamlike scenarios and bizarre layouts that counter...