Comics and Animation

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks Oct. 11-17: Mr. Maus in the haus, Yiddishkayt, Sita Sings the Blues (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)

11 Oct 2008

(AUTHOR TALK) Before "Maus" won him the first and only Pulitzer Prize for a graphic novel, Art Spiegelman was a "drug-addled youth cartoonist" honing his talent and battling inner demons during the '60s.

Comics Review: Scrambled Ink edited by Diana Schutz (Blogcritics.org)

10 Oct 2008

DreamWorks animators break from out of the studio and into book publication. Paging through Scrambled Ink (Dark Horse Books), the handsomely constructed hardback anthology of illustrated stories by a group of DreamWorks cartoonists, I can't help wondering what a comparable collection featuring the Grand Old Men of Animation might've looked like if the leading lights at Disney, Warner, or ...

Forest Whitaker To Make 'Wonderful World' (KillerMovies)

10 Oct 2008

Forest Whitaker will direct and star in Louis Armstrong biopic "What a Wonderful World" for Paris-based Legende, the company behind "La Vie en rose." Film, the first bigscreen project to be authorized by the Armstrong estate, will kick off during the musician’s impoverished early years in New Orleans and primarily chronicle his career as a trumpet virtuoso and improvisational singer..