The Incredibles.

Very well deserved (and would you, too, have had a heart attack if Shark Tale had won?).

Being the proprietor of Scrappyland has its fringe benefits–none more pleasant than the opportunity to meet Dr. Richard P. Huemer, son of Scrappy’s creator, Dick Huemer. (See my terrible cameraphone picture to the right.)

Dr. Huemer, who was in San Francisco with his wife Mary Kay for a medical conference, has a wonderful Web site with [...]

The weather was awful in New York last Wednesday–it was one of those days when the rain not only turns you umbrella inside out, but destroys it. But I had good reason to brave the storm: I was trying to visit the site where the Fleischer studio stood for fifteen years, starting in 1923.

For years, [...]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Warner Bros. is readying a new show called Loonatics for the WB Network. The show, which is set in 2772, applies the same sort of “reimagining” to the Looney Tunes characters that Warner has inflicted on Superman, Batman, and other characters.
(Cartoon Brew has an image of the new [...]

This just in: Two of C.M. Coolidge’s “dogs playing poker” paintings have sold at a New York auction for $590,400. Which is a record–but if anything, it seems low to me in relation to their significance. (And I’m sorry I didn’t know about the auction, since I happen to be in the Big Apple at [...]

I’m in Manhattan for work, and my trip back to the hotel tonight from dinner took me by the Good Morning America studio in Times Square, where Bryan Berg of Ames, Iowa is currently living and building a New York city skyline made of 170,000 playing cards–no fasteners involved.

Bryan is attempting to break his own [...]

I’m surprised to find myself with a bit of superhero news, but I was walking through PC World’s art department today, and saw this nifty booklet of blown-up images from (mostly 1960s) Marvel comics. Turns out that Corbis–the image archive owned by Bill Gates–has acquired the rights to Marvel graphics for licensing as fancy clip [...]

I’ve been startled and tickled by the positive reception to Scrappyland, my Scrappy Web site. I’m getting a lot of e-mail, including a nice note from Dr. Richard Huemer, Dick Huemer’s son. Stop by the site to read samples from the mailbag (in Letters) and to see pointers (in Links) to coverage of Scrappyland around [...]