Next week’s Doonesbury will be repeats–because the strips that G.B. Trudeau drew were about Harriet Miers’s senate hearings. Read ‘em here at Slate…

This sounds like a tasteless-but-funny flight of fancy at The Onion, but it’s apparently legit: The Belgian arm of UNICEF has produced an anti-war public-service message which shows the Smurf village being devastated by warplanes.

Said an account director for the ad agency responsible for the commercial: “We wanted something that was real war–Smurfs losing arms, [...]

Nick Park’s Wallace and Gromit, the stars of three charming, inventive, and well-crafted short films, are now the stars of a charming, inventive, and well-crafted feature. I saw it at an ASIFA screening last night and had an awfully good time–as, it seemed, did the entire audience.

When I first heard of this project, I worried. [...]

Nice Richard Corliss piece from Time on Wallace and Gromit’s feature debut. I’m seeing the movie Monday night…

Very, very sad news from my longtime friend Dave Mackey, proprietor of the indispensable DaveMackey.com. I was fortunate enough to be an usher at Nancy and Dave’s wedding in 1994. She was a wonderful lady who recently published important two books.