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Winnie The Pooh Sketch Fetched $50,000
An original sketch of Winnie-the-Pooh, Tigger and Piglet by E.H. Shepard has fetched $50,000 at auction:
The oval pencil sketch by E.H. Shepard, one of children’s literature’s most famous illustrators, shows Pooh dipping his paw into a pot of honey while sitting at a table as Piglet and Tigger look on.
Auctioneer Bonhams said the successful telephone bidder was from Germany and bought the picture for his wife, a long-time Pooh fan.
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Japanese Man Petitions to Legally Marry Manga Character
Well, shoot, I always found Ichi-Kun Ichihonei pretty hot, but I’m already married.
Taichi Takashita launched an online petition aiming for one million signatures to present to the government to establish a law on marriages with cartoon characters.
Within a week he has gathered more than 1,000 signatures through the Internet.
“I am no longer interested in three dimensions. I would even like to become a resident of the two-dimensional world,” he wrote.
“However, that seems impossible with present-day technology. Therefore, at the very least, would it be possible to legally authorise marriage with a two-dimensional character?”
Link via Geekologie.
Geekery blog Topless Robot links to a translation of a Japanese story that purports that the character in question is Mikuru Asahina from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Major problem with Takashita’s plan: Japan doesn’t allow polygamy, so only one person can marry an anime character at a time.
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X-Men paper toys
Go here to download some adorable and very simple paper toys of Wolverine, Cyclops, Magneto, and more. And you can find previously posted papercraft projects here.
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The Original Meaning of “Facebooking”
From our pal and favorite cartoonist Adam "Ape Lad" Koford, here’s the original defition of "Facebooking."
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Toilet Hero
It seems that the success of Guitar Hero has prodded video game makers to try and make copycat games of similar genre. Michael Moss of Quitting Time comics envisioned one such "products that never made it": Toilet Hero!
To be fair, based on experience, I can tell you that if you unclog a toilet, you’re instantly a hero in the eyes of your wife.
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10 Very Good Reasons Why You Should Grow A Beard
This slideshow comic from Matthew Inman makes me want to grow a beard, but I don’t think that’s going to happen! Link -Thanks, Jon Jason!
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Bambi: Top “Tear Jerker” Movie of All Time
Pearl & Dean, a British movie advertising company, conducted an online survey to find out the top "tear-jerker" movie of all time.
Here are the top 10 list, via the Daily Mail:
1. Bambi (1942)
2. Ghost (1990)
3. The Lion King (1994)
4. E.T. (1982)
5. Titanic (1997)
6. Beaches (1998)
7. Philadelphia (1993)
8. Watership Down (1978)
9. Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
10. Steel Magnolias (1989)
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Bizarro: If Cats Had Opposable Thumbs
I thought this is perfect for "Caturday" - for more Bizarro goodness, please visit Dan Piraro’s website and blog.
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Don’t Talk to Him, Honey, He’s a CEO!
In 2006, Jeffrey Brown published a book of gag comics called I Am Going To Be Small. Matt Forsythe of Drawn! blog was reading it on the train home and found this eerily prescient comic - via Drawn!
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Spider-Man’s Next Partner: Stephen Colbert!
Guess who’s coming to star in an upcoming Spider-Man comic? It’s none other than Stephen Colbert, who’s running for president in the Marvel Universe!
Marvel is proud to reveal that Spider-Man and acclaimed television personality Stephen Colbert will join forces in an all new eight-page story featured in the extra-sized AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #573! Acclaimed writer Mark Waid and fan favorite artist Patrick Olliffe present Stephen Colbert, a candidate for the U.S. Presidency in the Marvel Universe, teaming up with Marvel’s most iconic crime fighter.
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Mickey Mouse Must Die!
"One of Satan’s soldiers." That’s what a Saudi muslim cleric called Mickey Mouse, saying that the cartoon character must die:
Sheikh Muhammad Munajid claimed the mouse is "one of Satan’s soldiers" and makes everything it touches impure.
But he warned that depictions of the creature in cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, and Disney’s Mickey Mouse, had taught children that it was in fact loveable.
The cleric, a former diplomat at the Saudi embassy in Washington DC, said that under Sharia, both household mice and their cartoon counterparts must be killed.
Mr Munajid was asked to give Islam’s teaching on mice during a religious affairs programme broadcast on al-Majd TV, an Arab television network.
According to a translation prepared by the Middle East Media Research Institute, an American press monitoring service, he said: "The mouse is one of Satan’s soldiers and is steered by him.
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The Lamest Supervillains in Comic Book History
The International Society of Supervillains blog has the list of the 11 lamest supervillains in comic book history. For example, here’s Asbestos Man:
History:
Chemist Orson Kasloff became a criminal after years of being a respected scientist failed to pay off the way he expected. He envied his fellow scientists, who he often saw riding around in Maseratis and banging supermodels, like, every night, because that’s obviously what scientists do all the time. He didn’t get much respect as a criminal, though, and decided the best way to quickly gain a rep would be to defeat the Human Torch. So he challenged him to a fight in a letter and created an asbestos costume.M.O.
The Asbestos Man created a flame-retardant asbestos suit to fight the Torch and used a fancy net to rope him in. The Torch rendered him instantly useless when he broke his net. Then he laughed at him for wearing a suit that would cause him to inhale particles of a known carcinogen. That’s just stupid, kids!
Lame? With asbestos litigation costing over $250 billion in the US alone, I think Asbestos Man is the scariest supervillain ever: Link - Thanks EEM!
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Oscar the Grouch Garbage Bag
In an effort to raise environmental awareness in children, artist Lily Franky and Sesame Street collaborated to create garbage bags printed with an image of the trash-lovin’ Oscar the Grouch.
Pink Tentacle has more artful garbage bags (including a very clever rabbit-kun plastic trash bag by Tokyo-based creative group MAQ, Inc.): Link
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Unmentionables Card: Cute but Mean
Tired of all the sugary Hallmark cards? Well, here’s something for you: Unmentionables from Luis Medina and Kathleen Orazio of Shinebox Print,
a pre-printed mini booklet of cards with cute monsters that say things you’re thinking of, but are too polite to say out loud.
Link - via The Urban Recluse
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Christian Bale and Kermit the Frog: Separated at Birth?
What do Christian Bale and Kermit the Frog have in common? Surprisingly, a lot more than you’d realize! Link - Thanks DB!
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The Voice Of Fred Flintstone
You might not recognise the face but I’ll bet that if this video omitted the title “Alan Reed the voice of Fred Flintstone” you would have guessed the voice in a second.
Trivia: Reed died shortly before his 70th birthday on June 14, 1977 and his body was donated for medical research to the Loma Linda University School of Medicine.
Link:YouTube
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He-Man + Mustache + Mullet + Chaps = Rio-Blast!
What do you get when you add a mustache, a mullet hair-do and chaps to He-Man?
Why, you get the best Masters of the Universe character ever: Rio-Blast!
According to Wikipedia, Rio-Blast is a cowboy and an old, good friend of He-Man (hmmm, Brokeback Mountain good, maybe?). In fact, he’s so cowboy that his favorite thing in the world is cooking chili.
Super Punch blog has more on the guy: Link (with video clip)
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Is Disney’s Copyright of Steamboat Willie’s Mickey Mouse Still Valid?
Mickey Mouse has a tremendous recognition rate. Indeed, the cartoon mouse is the world’s most famous personality - he’s even better known than Santa Claus in the US!
But did a mistake by Disney in the 1920s cause it to lose its copyright over Mickey Mouse? Here’s an interesting article at the Los Angeles Times by Joseph Menn:
Film credits from the 1920s revealed imprecision in copyright claims that some experts say could invalidate Disney’s long-held copyright, though a Disney lawyer dismissed that idea as "frivolous." [...]
Copyright questions apply to an older incarnation, a rendition of Mickey still recognizable but slightly different. Original Mickey, the star of the first synchronized sound cartoon, "Steamboat Willie," and other early classics, had longer arms, smaller ears and a more pointy nose.
The notion that any Mickey Mouse might be free of copyright restrictions is about as welcome in the Magic Kingdom as a hag with a poisoned apple. Yet elsewhere, especially in academia, the idea has attracted surprising support.
"That ‘Steamboat Willie’ is in the public domain is easy. That’s a foregone conclusion," said copyright scholar Peter Jaszi of American University’s Washington College of Law after studying the issue at The Times’ request.
The issue has been chewed over by law students as class projects and debated by professors. It produced one little-noticed law review article: a 23-page essay in a 2003 University of Virginia legal journal that argued "there are no grounds in copyright law for protecting" the Mickey of those early films.
Link - via Boing Boing
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Dissecting Lightning McQueen of Pixar’s Cars
Jake Parker of Agent44 Blog didn’t just wonder about what Lightning McQueen, the hero of the 2006 movie Cars by Disney and Pixar would looke like on a dissection table … he actually drew one out!
Link - thanks kinomozg!
Previously on Neatorama: Hyungkoo Lee’s Cartoon Skeleton | Skeletal Systems of Cartoon Characters
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The Muppets Take the Internet
I love short video clips of Statler and Waldorf of The Muppets that are goin’ round the Web.
It turns out that there’s a slew of Muppets videos on YouTube as the Swedish Chef, Gonzo, Beaker, Sam The Eagle, and of course, Statler & Waldorf now have their own YouTube accounts.
Joe Hennes of ToughPigs has some of the funniest "Viral Muppeting" clips: Link
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Walt Disney Organizational Chart of 1943
Larger image at Jerry Beck’s Cartoon Research: Link
How did Disney (during the Walt Disney era) make movies? This organization chart from a 1943 booklet The Ropes At Disney showed that everything started with Walt himself, who focused on story and direction, and let others deal with the details …
Links: Disney Organizational Chart 1943 | The Ropes at Disney at Cartoon Brew
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Advanced Beauty
(Vimeo link)
Advanced Beauty is an ongoing collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians, animators and architects to create audio-reactive ‘video sound sculptures’ using the visual programming language Processing, high-end audio analysis and fluid dynamic simulations alongside intuitive responses in traditional cell animation.
This series of videos is inspired by the concept of synesthesia, the syndrome where a person experiences one sense as another, for example, a synesthete may “hear” or “taste” colors. See more videos from the project at Colour Lovers. Link -Thanks, Jon Jason!
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Batman and Other Superheroes … Simpsonized!
In his blog Springfield Punx, artist Dean T. Fraser draws superheroes and other comic characters in the style of The Simpsons cartoons. So far, he’s done some characters from Batman, Spider-man, Star Trek TOS, etc.
Check it out: Link - via Super Punch
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Hardcover & Paperback
(Aniboom link)
A love story of an animated origami couple, by Israeli animator Moshe Servatka. -Thanks, Bill!
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Dilbert Minus Dilbert
Following the popularity of Garfield Minus Garfield, it’s only natural that the same thing is applied to other comics. Box Brown, the creator of the adorable Bellen (previously on Neatorama here), did this one: Dilbert Minus Dilbert.
Link - Thanks Brian!
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The Homer Simpson One Euro Coin
Neatorama reader Miguel Artime sent in this one: a special coin found in the cash register of a Spanish candy shop. It seems that someone decided
to, um, modify the 1 Euro coin featuring the face of King Juan Carlos I de Borbon y Borbon, King of Spain, into the less regal mug of Homer Simpson! The owner does not want to sell it because "it brings good luck."
Link [in Spanish] - Thanks Miguel!
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DESTRO featuring The Baroness- “Get Money” MUSIC VIDEO
NSFW: Explicit lyrics
It’s rare to see something so amazing on YouTube.
DR. SMOOV’s video is a series of meticulously pieced clips of the characters from the GI JOE TV episodes, linked together with impeccable timing as a cover to “Get Money” by Junior M.A.F.I.A.
Via SneezeMag
Click Play or go to Link.
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