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    Does Obama Have the Guts to Take on Big Cartoon?

    The Cover for Dave Eggers' New Book is Just Precious

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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    08/31/09

    In reply to Does Obama Have the Guts to Take on Big Cartoon?
    You know, Hellboy's been doing pretty well for an independent the last few years.
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    Image of Deric Deric
    08/31/09

    In reply to Does Obama Have the Guts to Take on Big Cartoon?
    If this means Captain Jack Sparrow vs. Groo the Wanderer, I'm all for it.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    08/31/09

    In reply to Does Obama Have the Guts to Take on Big Cartoon?
    Hey, what about Spawn?

    *crickets*
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    Image of Richard Rushfield Richard Rushfield
    08/31/09

    @DennyCrane: Yes, Spawn still seems to be under the Fox ownership.. so that is still out there,..but it doesnt seem to have much going on now, big screen-wise
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    Image of Aidan_ Aidan_
    08/31/09

    @DennyCrane: Hey, HEY! This is civilized blog. We don't use that kind of foul language around here.

    What about Seth MacFarlane's awful piece of shit?
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    Image of MsMuffinMcGuffin MsMuffinMcGuffin
    08/31/09

    In reply to Does Obama Have the Guts to Take on Big Cartoon?
    I was wondering about those anti-trust laws as well. Seems like most of the stuff we studied in film school i.e. a certain amount of separation between companies, appears to have disappeared into one big mouse trap.
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    Image of Princess Commands, Darling Princess Commands, Darling
    08/31/09

    In reply to Does Obama Have the Guts to Take on Big Cartoon?
    I give props to Richard for mentioning Moon Knight, my all-time favorite superhero.
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    Image of Richard Rushfield Richard Rushfield
    08/31/09

    @Princess Commands, Darling: Bless you Princess, So few recall...
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    Image of Macloserboy Macloserboy
    08/31/09

    In reply to Does Obama Have the Guts to Take on Big Cartoon?
    Um, people could just create their own goddamn characters. Heroes has proven that.
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    Image of johnny_carsick johnny_carsick
    08/31/09

    In reply to Does Obama Have the Guts to Take on Big Cartoon?
    that's a terribly awkward angle for barry to be dapping the ol' webhead from.
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    08/31/09

    In reply to Does Obama Have the Guts to Take on Big Cartoon?
    Wow way to forget about the Warner Bro's cartoons there.

    You know Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck...

    And technically the Pixar universe was always part of Disney. Pixar never released a non-Disney distributed animated film.

    Also the Muppets are not cartoons, Muppet Babys non-withstanding, so they dont count.
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    Edited by Jim Topoleski at 08/31/09 3:05 PM Jim Topoleski was starred Jim Topoleski was unstarred
    Image of Richard Rushfield Richard Rushfield
    08/31/09

    @Jim Topoleski: Excellent point, even though they dont have much big screen presence. Adding now. And muppets do too count, puppets/tunes close enough
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    Image of Dominant Glee Club Dominant Glee Club
    08/31/09

    @Richard Rushfield: I hate to quibble, but comic book characters aren't technically cartoons. I mean, that's not nearly as egregious a jump as adding Muppets, but still. If Muppets count, then what about Charlie McCarthy? Do you draw the line at ventriloquist dummies? Pinocchio is principally an animated cartoon, so I'll give you that.

    How about this: change the joke from "Big Cartoon" to "Big Animo." Then we'll talk.
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    Image of mipsy6 mipsy6
    08/31/09

    @The Dominant Glee Club: It's a good point--comic book characters and cartoon characters are not the same thing. And if you're talking cartoon characters, you're forgetting about one really big one: SpongeBob SquarePants. He may be newer than Mickey, but he's pretty damn popular. Add Dora the Explorer and South Park and Viacom's got some presence in this area. And Fox has The Simpsons.
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    The Dominant Glee Club promoted this comment Edited by mipsy6 at 08/31/09 4:05 PM mipsy6 was starred mipsy6 was unstarred
    Image of Dominant Glee Club Dominant Glee Club
    08/31/09

    @mipsy6: Really, the point to keep in mind is that they're action figures, not dolls.
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    Image of MincnglyWhrdL'mer MincnglyWhrdL'mer
    06/18/09

    In reply to The Cover for Dave Eggers' New Book is Just Precious
    damn. this looks mildly like that brooklyn artist who does the highly refined pencil drawings of survivalists in the woods, wearing flattened animal hide masks with just the eyes exposed, he was in a show at PS1 some four years back - I'm blanking, and it's going to drive me NUTS
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    06/18/09

    In reply to The Cover for Dave Eggers' New Book is Just Precious
    Maybe Eggers' book will be told from the mother's point of view. What it feels like to make a nice dinner for your family and have your bratty kid run around like a dork in his monster costume -- that same costume you've washed now every night for two weeks -- and when you finally call the good-for-nothings to the table to eat the meatloaf you spent all afternoon assembling, the mashed potatoes you made fresh, not from a box, and the ungrateful little bugger says he's going to "eat you up," which reminds you you haven't had sex in four weeks thanks to your husband's new account at work, maybe, maybe you've just had e-fucking-nuff. So you send the little bastard to his bedroom without any supper and you have the nicest hour of your day. Maybe that's what the new book is about?
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    06/18/09

    @Mama Penguino:


    I'm mixing you a martini right now. Just sit down and I'll get it over there in a minute.

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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    07/17/09

    @Mama Penguino: applause
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    06/18/09

    In reply to The Cover for Dave Eggers' New Book is Just Precious
    Dave Eggers, "I'm going to eat you up!" she says shamelessly.
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    06/18/09

    In reply to The Cover for Dave Eggers' New Book is Just Precious
    Eggers is the Steve Jobs of publishers: Wrap your products in sleek, simple and faux-hip packages and the masses will clamor for it. Even if the insides aren't as revolutionary as you've led everyone to believe.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    06/18/09

    In reply to The Cover for Dave Eggers' New Book is Just Precious
    Does no one else think that many, many ten-year-olds might be somewhat intrigued, in a good way, by this clever packaging?


    And if it's a byproduct of Where the Wild Things Are, then isn't calling it "twee" kind of spectacularly missing the point?


    I just don't understand the twee-bashing. None of it.

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    Image of PrincessKashmir PrincessKashmir
    06/18/09

    @skahammer: I generally understand and endorse twee-bashing, but I agree with you in this case.


    Not everything everyone thinks, does or creates is for us (cynical, overeducated 20/30-somethings). This book seems pretty obviously aimed at kids, and I know exactly how I would have reacted if I were 8 and seeing this book on the shelves.

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    PrincessKashmir was starred PrincessKashmir was unstarred
    Image of skahammer skahammer
    06/18/09

    @PrincessKashmir: Age eight, you're right, not age ten.


    Kids, feh. Who knows what's "age-appropriate" these days anyway?

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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    06/18/09

    @skahammer: Thank you! Little P loves Where the Wild Things Are and will no doubt be horrified and enchanted by this book cover. Must we introduce weltschmertz when judging children's books?
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    06/18/09

    In reply to The Cover for Dave Eggers' New Book is Just Precious
    Fuck precious. One longs for the days when a writer would fight a bull instead of wrapping it up in twee and selling it.
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    Image of Crotty Crotty
    06/18/09

    @airvault: Do you mean Hemmingway? I don't think he actually fought any bulls. But he certainly did sentimentalize the bullfigting, and in a way render it twee.


    Also, during sex, "the Earth moved out from under them." isn't that sort of twee?

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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    06/18/09

    @Crotty: OK, how about machine gunning sharks in the Carribean? Is that twee?
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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    06/18/09

    @BadUncle: Sarah Palin's vacations are NOT twee!
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    06/18/09

    @airvault: And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply PREVAIL. There was no point in fighting - on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave...

    So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.


    Sounds pretty twee to me. But also great. And I'd like to hear someone criticize Hunter S. Thompson as twee. A degenerate, narcissistic, cynical misogynist maybe, but twee? Feh.

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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    06/18/09

    In reply to The Cover for Dave Eggers' New Book is Just Precious
    Everything Eggers does is precious. But quite a lot of it is genius, too, so yes, we'll all buy this just in case it is.
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