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I was laying in bed this morning playing with the girls. They have been extremely gassy lately. I’d like to think they got that from their Mom but I highly doubt it. Anyway, I was trying to figure out if there had ever been a super hero that was a baby? I think there was a stretch one, but I can’t remember. I’m also sure that the Incredibles had a baby (I think). Anyway, I want to create a new set of twin super hero’s and call them Farty Pants.

Hows this for darn cool, In 1988 a group of artist created a short film for Apple using the powerful new Macintosh II. The film was called Pencil Test. Two of those artist who worked on that film have gone on to have…moderate success. You may have heard of them, their names are John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton.

At the gift shop, same one sill here this morning, I picked up a set of Doonesbury paperback books. A collection of a few years of the series, or months? But it was full of Zonker Harris and his super starred college football helmet. It was a fun train ride.

I was certainly not one of the first members of Queensryche’s fan club, but I was definitely one of the earlier ones. I remember periodically getting one of those old photocopied newsletters in the mail, with all of the nice letters from the band, and those cool anime drawings of the band by a then-unknown Tomoko Saito, who is a big name in the industry now at Dark Horse Comics among other places.

I remember getting up in the mornings and watching the Little Rascals and the Three Stooges before school everyday. Those shows were old as hell but they are great to this day. The same is true about the cartoons from those days. TBS used to air the good cartoons, Tom and Jerry, or Bugs Bunny. The Merrie Melodies were some of my favorites.

Fans of Belle & Sebastian may want to check out Image Comics' Put the Book Back on the Shelf, a new graphic novel that features contemporary comic writers and illustrators offering their visual interpretation of B&S songs.

Here’s some really hilarious U.S. WW-II propaganda showing Bugs Bunny and Popeye doing their part in the Pacific against the Japanese.

It’s interesting that Republicans feel free to say nasty things in about gay people today just as they openly made racist slurs back in the day. Equating Rep. Frank to Beavis and Butthead is beyond the pale — and, frankly, I don’t think Jesus would approve.

Cartoon Brew is bringing the wacky Disney noise. In addition to a magazine ad where it's Mickey Mouse vs. gonorrhea, they also posted linkage to the Google video above: Walt Disney presents VD ATTACK PLAN!

From Dave Walker of The Cartoon Blog fame comes We Blog Cartoons. Cool eh?

In the same spirit as books like The Science of the X-Files and The Physics of Star Trek, the California Science Center in Los Angeles is running a Science of Superheroes exhibitition. “Live the comics! Live the science!” exclaims the exhibition’s website. At this exhibition, you can learn how Bruce Banner’s emotions transform him into The Incredible Hulk, climb walls like Spider Man, and more.

You can also find some of Tenniels’ Alice illustrations at the Webmuseum, and his political cartoons, illos for The Haunted Man as well as a full Alice set on The Victorian Web and some of the color versions of the Alice images on the British Library site.

Many of us innocently put up photographs, funny quotes and stories, and assume that there is not someone pouring over our weekend escapades in search of bad behavior. Apparently, this is not the case.

There are two strips that I try to catch in the morning's newspaper: Doonesbury and Dilbert. I know I can get them online, but there's something valuable about reading them at the kitchen table.

Today a young woman came into the special collection where I work and she wanted to look at some political cartoons. I showed her what we had, and it led to a good chat about Ben Franklin and the difference between American and French revolutionary print culture. I pointed toward our copy of Mary Wollstonecraft's Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution and said, "It's the same Wollstonecraft who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman." Blank stare. I summarized. "Men of the eighteenth century wrote a lot of misogynistic crap about how women are worthless because all they care about is money and clothes and entertainment. Wollstonecraft points out that all women are educated to do is marry rich, look pretty, and have a good time. Until we provide an equal education to women and men, she argues, men will always hate women for what they grow up to be." The student blinked a few times and said she'd pick up a copy on her way home.

Check out the Cadillac Ranch inspired rock formation in the background. It’s details like this that make Pixar films really “rise above the crowd”.

　Pixar Animation Studiosは3月7日、12月31日締め2005年第4四半期（10～12月）業績を発表した。売上高は5560万ドル（前年同期は1億890万ドル）、利益は3090万ドル（前年同期は5520万ドル）となった。2005年度通期では、売上高2億8910万ドル、利益1億4170万ドルとなり、利益では過去最高を記録した。

Now this isn’t some creative genius at work here, since Mr. Vandross seemingly came up with his own version of a sandwich similar in an act of desperation and being bunless. A burger quite similar to this also makes an appearance in the Cartoon Network Adult Swim show The Boondocks episode called “The Itis”. Grandpa makes up a donut burger and opens a restuarant that serves them up. But people get “The Itis’ whenever they eat one of his burgers, which is akin to the all too familiar Food Coma or being Food Drunk. So Grandpa puts beds in his establishment for his patrons to sleep off their Itis. The problem is that people become grossly overweight, and the Itis burger becomes the new crack. People are too fat and too tired to work, they lose their jobs and turn to crime in the streets to get enough money to get their fix of another Itis burger. It’s a bit of social satire, but it certainly has a ring of truth to it. So Krispy Kreme and The Grizzlies certainly can’t lay claim to “inventing” this concoction, but they can lay claim to commercializing it and putting a few people closer to their graves with their every so “tasty” heart clogging “goodness”. *gag*

Last week was pretty stressful, and this week isn’t starting off all that great either. The annoying nervous tick eye twitch thing is back, which drives me nuts. It reminds me of the teacher on Beavis and Butthead.

You know what sound I’m talking about or not? First, the fart sounds, those under pressure for so long and released at top speed. Woof!

Oh man. This is serious. Check out this peek behind the scenes of the Incredibles comic over at House of Cool.

Check out this cool real-life version of the Simpsons opening. Not sure who, how, or why this was created, but it’s pretty amazing.

Ok, enough of the mushy mushy. Must go get the grill fired up for hamburgers. At the moment Tashie and Logan are actually quiet (*gasp!*) watching ‘Monsters, Inc.” so I”m gonna take advantage of this time. hehehehe

Washington Mutual should be fine then. You’ll like them - they have very funny commercials. My grandfather Giuliani used to say that a business with a good advertising is a business when you’re there you’re like family, the olive garden.

Seward Street has a post on the return of hand-drawn animation, including the impending return of "traditional" animation under the new Pixar-Disney merger.