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...early 1980's, Rhode Island-based toy company Hasbro hit upon the idea of releasing toys that transformed from vehicles into futuristic robots, essentially doubling each toy's play value. The line was a smash success, heavily buoyed by a popular television cartoon and comic book series. Despite succumbing to the fickle whims of popular taste, the line managed to rebound and, like a sort of Star Trek for children, has maintained its popularity through various incarnations over the years up to the present...
...remained loyal. But primary colors and flashy battles no longer remain the draw for these fans, many of whom now have children of their own. The enduring attraction of the Transformers series seems less about simple nostalgia than the unique take on a universal premise. The creators of the comic and television series painted a breathtaking picture of a fantastical world populated by living machines fighting a war that had raged for millions of years. Politics, drama, humor, and a human-like empathy were woven into a tapestry that put a twist on the eternal struggle between Good and Evil...
...16th century Europe than they would be four centuries later. Granted, social attitudes toward the repellent aspects of old age were different. And yet it is difficult to look at his numerous drawings of horribly, freakishly ugly old people--which would be assiduously copied by other artists (As comic emblems? As homages? Who knows?) and would make a final appearance during the Victorian age in the triumphantly hideous image of the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland--without sensing that Leonardo's peculiar and sadistic imagination is at a big remove from ours...
...motion and emotion in all his still lifes, glamour and elan in a weighty Sunday paper. Over his 80-year career, AL HIRSCHFELD'S witty hand made hardly an inapt stroke. At his death last week, five months short of his 100th birthday, this comic muralist left an inadvertent history of 20th century entertainment. For dozens of dailies and weeklies but mainly for the New York Times, Hirschfeld drew--and drew out the spirit of--virtually every celebrity from high art (Toscanini, Natalia Makarova) and popular art (Roberto Benigni, Natalie Wood). Through his pen, inanity became animate, and caricature...
...three books can be found at superior comic stores and online bookstores as well...