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French cartoonist David B. visualizes the invisible. In Epileptic, a moving account of his brother's debilitating illness, he delivers compelling cartoon metaphors for elusive concepts like longing. The result, due out in early January, is a graphic novel that's a worthy successor to Art Spiegelman's Maus.Set in Europe during the late 1960s and early '70s, Epileptic tells the story of David B.'s family members as they struggle to help his brother, trying out "cures" from mediums to exorcisms. A seizure is depicted as his brother twisting in the coils of a giant snake. David B. says...
...newest step towards establishing himself as a solo performer, Thompson has, to be boldly cliché, big shoes to fill as the title role of the live-action movie, Fat Albert. The movie is based on iconic comedian Bill Cosby’s hit 1970s cartoon series “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids,” which is, itself, based off of Cosby’s standup routine about his childhood. Directed by Joel Zwick (coming off aptly enough from the high of another “fat” movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding...
Cosby, who voiced many of the characters in the Fat Albert cartoon, gave Thompson relative freedom with personalizing characterization: he did not even coach on how to deliver the Albert tagline, “Hey, hey, hey, it’s Fat Albert...
...rest of the chapter is comprised of cartoon bliss. The exercises at the back of the book are the only indicators that Risk In Perspective really is a text for a university course...
Blade escapes police headquarters with the help of a group of “sleeper” human vampire hunters, known as the Night-Stalkers (“Night-Stalkers—sounds like the rejects from a Saturday morning cartoon,” growls Blade). The Stalkers (Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel) help Blade foil the super-secret plans of the vampires who have resurrected Dracula. And they do it in style...