Adapting scripts from other mediums, whether it's a novel, a play, a comic book or a video game, is a different breed of writing. You would think it would be easy...but it ain't.
When you consider the publicity that this film received for its 'groundbreaking' African American characters, I'm pretty sure Disney was hoping for a bigger opening for The Princess and the Frog.
With the Copenhagen climate talks under way, Glenn Beck wants America to know that he is not happy with Barack Obama or the Environmental Protection A...
Who is Sarah Ball and why is she saying awful things about Emo Phillips? And, why is she not saying awful things about Robin Williams?
Today marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most beloved and still-appreciated cartoon shows, ever.
With Halloween just around the corner, some folks in the White House are getting into the spooky spirit. Namely, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
With a few notable exception, broadcast news is a very scary place these days. What Edward R. Murrow would think of the current zeitgeist is unknowable, but we might hazard a guess.
What do Joe Lieberman and Lucy from Peanuts have in common?
Watching the current slide of the GOP in to nutballdom is similar to I Love Lucy -- I'm cringing, but fascinated and ... highly entertained.
Climate change, health care, multiple wars, the economy, and we are treated to 24/7 coverage of ... this.
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The point is we gotta stop constantly judging other people's sex lives. Unless they produce an amateur sex tape. Then it's fair game. Until then leave Letterman alone!
In a plot line inspired by Robert Frost's poem "Road Not Taken," fictional character Archie Andrews has already proposed to Veronica and will propose to Betty next month. I wonder what it would be like if other comics were inspired by poems...
In recent years, the punch lines have grown less crisp and the "rolling naturalism" has tumbled away from the satire that made Doonesbury the only comic strip I once made a point of reading.
In the health care reform debate, it's baffling why it's the Federal government -- and not our New-Age Robber Barons -- that keeps getting accused of ineptitude, chicanery, and self-aggrandizement.
I love opening weekend for new comics movies like Surrogates. For brief but increasingly frequent moments in the course of a year I have a perfect excuse to evangelize about comics.