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...lower-priced vin ordinaire. Sieur would harvest the grapes and make the wine; Gallo would handle marketing and distribution. Then, after sending a crew of Gallo researchers and Grey Advertising executives to southern France, Gallo coined an evocative name--Red Bicyclette--and devised a friendly label with a fun cartoon of a Frenchman in a beret riding a red bike with a dog trailing behind him, a baguette in its mouth. Voilŕ: French charm with none of the intimidation factor. (Compare that label with, say, the one for Domaine de Montcalmčs Coteaux du Languedoc AOC, a wine from...
...CRUMB: Yeah well, [characters like Angelfood McSpade] were just stereotypical 1920s images of big-lipped black people which actually had very little to do with real African Americans. They were cartoon stereotypes I was playing around with. All that stuff I did in the late 1960s was cartoon stereotypes. I was playing around with them in a psychedelicized way. I dunno. It's hard to explain. It's not my job to explain...
South Park (Comedy Central, Wednesdays, 10 P.M. E.T.) It's hard to say that a cartoon that has featured talking fecal matter has "matured." But South Park has, after nearly eight years, grown into TV's sharpest topical satire. In a recent episode, a character becomes hooked on the Sony PSP, gets in an accident and hovers between life and death, only to find that the PSP was created by God as a weapon against Satan. Any cartoon that can successfully lampoon the right-to-die issue, an overhyped gadget and our apocalyptic obsessions at once is, like that...
...house’s open list has been flooded with proposals, from Marsh’s cartoon “horse-thing”—the closest an animal drawing can come to a stick figure, this submission resembles a hairy fist more than any sort of mammal—to the Qube, the house library...
Campaigning has gotten pretty eccentric. “Horse-thing” creators, who include Marsh and his roommates, sent out a cartoon video depicting the bizarre character stomping on the words “other mascots.” Kirshner sent out incomprehensible e-mails to Quincy residents, signed by Astra and then distributed a flyer featuring a picture of the dog with the caption, “Vote...