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...roots go back to 1994, when Mike Lazzo, senior vice president of Cartoon Network (which, like TIME, is part of Time Warner), was asked to create an inexpensive, late-night show for adults, who were tuning in to the network in larger-than-expected numbers. Thus was born Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, a talk show whose host is an old Hanna-Barbera superhero, sitting behind a desk, bantering with an alien bandleader and asking such bewildered, real-life celebrity guests as Donny Osmond what superpowers they have...
...Space Ghost became a cult hit, and in 2001, Cartoon Network created the Adult Swim block of cartoons around it. The original shows (it also includes acquired Japanese anime toons) follow the same principle: lunacy on a low budget. On Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a trio of superpowered fast-food products pursue get-rich-quick schemes (luring pilgrims to a "sacred oil stain" in the neighbor's driveway) and avoid crime fighting (except, for instance, when they catch pot-smoking aliens tapping into their TV cable). According to co-creator Matt Maiellaro, budget constraints posed a problem in animating Meatwad...
...David Boring by Daniel Clowes (Pantheon; 2000) Best known for "Ghost World," thanks to the movie version, Clowes' "David Boring" is a more sophisticated novel of a guy in search of a woman while the world may be ending. Part of the "second generation" of comix creators, Clowes' flair for offbeat characters and sly humor has no peer...
...both the foundational text and the ghost within the field,” she said...
...Free trade is not a ghost terrifying the taxpayers. Opening the market offers everybody a fair chance to gain one's livelihood. Why should hard work not pay off? As Darwin said: "Only the fittest will survive!" Andreas Kiesl Germany...