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Animators gave themselves a challenge when dreaming up a film starring robots and machinery. Metal lacks the plasticity that characterizes truly innovative CGI animation (think of the inflatable frog in Shrek). Instead, the animated humor relies on dismemberment as outmoded robots fall apart, giving the entire cartoon an air of morbidity...
...John F. Kerry managed to bump President George W. Bush out of the White House in November. The editor, who’d been trying to get Rees to branch out and write some actual articles for the magazine anyway, agreed to the deal, and the fate of the cartoon strip was thrown to the hands of the voters...
...Little Lulu" should not be missed by anyone of any age who enjoys classic cartoon comedy. The ensemble cast as written by John Stanley and masterfully rendered by Irving Tripp evoke as many "HAW!"s today as they did when they first sat in racks at the soda shop. The Nick Mag special comics edition may not be as lasting but still has humor and a good heart. Hopefully it will serve as an example for Nickelodeon to collect more of their comics work, under the guidance of a strong editor, into what could be a major anthology for both...
...unlike Larry David's self-lacerating HBO show, Fat Actress, with its cartoon conception of Hollywood, lacks any sophistication. The comedy is way broad (ba-dum-bump!) and when it hits, it's very funny, as when Alley complains about the double standard for chubby actors ("Jason Alexander looks like a freaking bowling ball!"). When it's bad--more often--it's amateurish. When she pitches a sitcom to Zucker, he answers, "Oh, I'm sure it will be huge. Enormous." This is as Cole Porter--esque as the repartee gets. Other plots hinge on black men who like...
...Again and again Kiyama brings history alive with his personal accounts of major events rendered in a highly readable cartoon form. The First World War, the Influenza pandemic of 1918, and especially the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, are all covered through the unique lens of the Japanese immigrant. The earthquake arc has a particular richness. It shakes Frank and Charlie out of their beds and leaves them homeless. They wander the devastated streets, hearing screams from those buried alive. Shuffling through ankle-high ash as a result of the firestorms that destroyed more of the city than the earthquake...