It’s true – the dust has barely settled on Never Have I Ever season 3 (which was excellent by the way) and yet we have talk already of season 4. Why so soon, you might wonder? (Not that any of us are complaining about Never I Have Ever goodness coming Continue Reading
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How Hanna-Barbera used simple animation to highlight music, dialogue and sound design
SNAPSHOT The difference between what we did at Warner Bros. and what’s on Saturday morning is the difference between animation and what I call illustrated radio. If you can turn off the picture and still know what’s going on, that’s illustrated radio. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Hanna-Barbera was very Continue Reading
You’re off and running with Scandinavian whimsicality with Moomin’ Move!
My oh my but doesn’t augmented reality stir up a hornet’s nest of reactions! On the surface, they’re fun electronic games that have “escaped” into the real world, giving people the chase to go on the hunt for characters and treasures, alone or together, and get some exercise in Continue Reading
Christmas goes gritty again: Klaus and the Crying Snowman
Snow might be a bit thin on the ground (read: non-existent) in the sunny climes of Australia during the festive season but in far off Scandinavia from where Grant Morrison and Dan Mora’s vividly-gritty takes on the origins of good old Santa Claus takes place (now with visibly less jolly Continue Reading
Jellystone Dark: DC’s re-imagined Yogi is more intense than the average postmodern bear
SNAPSHOT In Yellowstone Park, legends speak of a spirit bear referred to as “the Yogi,” which few if any have actually encountered. Real or not, when a bear seems to have graduated from stealing picnic baskets to kidnapping actual campers, Ranger Smith decides it’s time to stop this menace—so Continue Reading
Vacuum cleaners are frightening, not spiders! Right Lucas? #Halloween2018
There is simply no debate on the issue – Lucas the Spider is absolutely, ridiculously cute and adorable. CUTE *AND* ADORABLE. Even an arachnophobe like myself doesn’t find him terrifying which is why I can only agree with him when he says in this new Scary Stories video that Continue Reading
Read me a vivid picture: Books as arrestingly beautiful art
There is a poetry and beauty to books and bookreading – every single novel you dive into is a journey into new worlds, a meeting with new people and a rush into hitherto-unheard stories, all shaped by the artistry of the author’s words. “Bookstagrammer” Elizabeth Sagan, has given this Continue Reading
Spooked! Simon’s Cat thinks something creepy over yonder lies
SNAPSHOT Upon waking from a satisfying Halloween nap, a languid Simon’s Cat deliciously stretched the sleep out of his limbs while staring at a picture on the wall behind the bed. After he was fully awake, the relaxed kitty suddenly became pensive and suspicious all the while staring at Continue Reading
Read your way through the end of the world with Anna and the Apocalypse!
Honestly the zombie apocalypse gets far too negative a rap. Sure, the world has gone to undead hell in a handbasket and life as you know it is over – and yes that sadly includes watching Netflix and the buying of pop culture memorabilia on Ebay – BUT, and Continue Reading
Rip’d from the pages of my childhood: Miffy by Dick Bruna
Dick Bruna, creator of Miffy, died at the age of 89 in February 2017. That might seem like a brutal way to begin an homage to one of the children’s books series, and characters, I treasured most as a child, but the truth is his death rattled me far Continue Reading