Cavity Creeps!
Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 7:28 AM • Cartoons and Comics, Television

My latest nostalgia attack was brought on by a reference to the Cavity Creeps in a recent South Park episode. Cavity Creeps? Yes. Remember these ads for Crest toothpaste?

(That merry band of Crest-suited militia also used submarines, surface vehicles and fighters.)

Boy, was my childhood ever infused with advertising. And boy was I ever susceptible to it.

Gates vs. Jobs
Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 12:32 AM • Cartoons and Comics, Mac

I’m a total fanboy, so of course I thought this short cartoon had six kinds of teh funny:

Via TUAW.

Répète!
Friday, January 14, 2005 at 8:55 AM • Cartoons and Comics

In English, Pépé Le Pew has a thick, Maurice Chevalier style accent. But what does he sound like when dubbed into French? Corsican. Sort of like Charles Pasqua, apparently.

Star Trek comics
Tuesday, April 13, 2004 at 1:20 PM • Cartoons and Comics

The Gold Key Star Trek comic series: I had two of the reprint volumes (“The Enterprise Logs”) as a kid. I remember that they were utterly unlike Star Trek in the first few issues — references to rocket motors, pink phasers, everybody but Spock in a green shirt, bald Klingons — but adhered more closely to the canon over time, I thought back then. I’m still trying to remember whether they were any good, though. Another nostalgia fix, via The Cartoonist (as so many good things are).

Opus sucks?
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 at 8:34 PM • Cartoons and Comics

Though I think it’s probably premature to pass final judgment — invoking the Next Generation third season rule — Colby Cosh’s verdict (and that of some others) on the new Opus strip is, to say the least, that he’s underwhelmed.

Opus 1
1 Wednesday, November 26, 2003 at 9:01 AM • Cartoons and Comics

Someone scanned the first Opus Sunday comic (via Jerry). Wouldn’t make a practice of doing that, mind you. Have yet to find out who carries it locally; couldn’t find a Saturday Citizen (Canadian papers run their thick, colour-comics-inclusive weekend editions on Saturdays) around the shop. (No, journalists don’t buy their own papers, silly.)

Opus day
Friday, November 21, 2003 at 5:23 PM • Cartoons and Comics

More on the run-up to the launch Sunday of Opus (see previous entry): a transcript of an online chat with BB himself, and a parody interview with Opus by MeFite Wendell (via MetaFilter).

The return of the penguin
Thursday, November 20, 2003 at 8:45 AM • Cartoons and Comics

Any time an interview with Berke Breathed is published, it’s worth linking to. Immediately. Not only is the imminent launch of Opus (oh frabjous day) the biggest thing to hit the comics industry since Bill Watterson retired, but Breathed’s corrosive shots at the comics industry (watch out, lasagna-eating pussycats) are, as always, a must-read. (Via Boing Boing)

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