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...parents with plenty of information before they go to the cineplex. It seems odd that parents who caution their children to avoid sex, drugs and violence don' t mind exposing them to these themes on the big screen. There are too few "magic " years for children; maybe watching Finding Nemo for the 10th time or reading The Secret Garden out loud can prolong them a bit. If nothing else, they ' ll sleep a little better...
Directed by Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards and Tony Leech The Weinstein Company 1 1/2 stars There are few better formulas for making serious bank in Hollywood than the animated family film. Thanks to “Shrek” and “Finding Nemo,” the elements of the genre are now well-defined: endearing stories and characters, lifelike digital effects, and humor just edgy enough to please parents and teens without corrupting the kids. So with the public so hungry for wholesome digital fun, it’s no surprise that formidable Hollywood execs Harvey...
...Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays! by Winsor McCay and edited by Peter Maresca (Sunday Press) 100 years ago there appeared a full color comic strip unlike any seen before or since. "Little Nemo in Slumberland," by Winsor McCay, a pioneer of both comics and animation ("Little Gertie the Dinosaur"), followed the adventures of a little boy in the world of dreams until, at the end of every episode, he awakens. Some of the most visually inventive comics ever created, McCay's strips would put Nemo through diamond palaces, into the mouths of dragons, and as a giant...
...very first significant comics artist was Winsor McCay, who, just 100 years ago, published his first full-color page of Little Nemo in Slumberland. Here was a popular art at its onset and apogee: not a primitive Lascaux cave painting but a Sunday- supplement Hieronymus Bosch--a glorious otherworld of dreamscapes as phantasmagoric as they were funny. "He created a vocabulary for artistic creation in comics," Carlin says of McCay, "showing how they could achieve extraordinary, avant-garde things without undermining their popular appeal...
Pumped And Ready Inventor: Cam Brensinger Availability: Now, $395 for two-person Hypno tent To Learn More: nemoequipment.com Tired of fumbling with tent poles as the sun goes down at some campsite in the woods? Nemo Equipment's inflatable tent has two supporting beams that are virtually pop-proof and are inflated with a foot pump to give the tent a rigid structure without aluminum poles. Designed by Cam Brensinger, a consultant for a NASA project designing spacesuits for Mars, the Nemo tents bring aerospace technology to the great outdoors. The company says the tents can be erected in less...