PARDON MY ZINGER
In an interview with Digital Spy, producer David Mirkin stated "next year, there'll be no Homer," "all other animated shows ever are crap," and that he "would love to do Kate!" [Digital Spy]
In an interview with Digital Spy, producer David Mirkin stated "next year, there'll be no Homer," "all other animated shows ever are crap," and that he "would love to do Kate!" [Digital Spy]
Labels: PARDON MY ZINGER
posted 8/24/2009 | permalink
Simpsons Songs Written In Code
THE RDRR REPORT WEB-WATCH
Simpsons Crazy is re-writing Simpsons song lyrics in code over the Twitter:
Simpsons Crazy is re-writing Simpsons song lyrics in code over the Twitter:
if ( lisa.isBirthday ) print "Happy Birthday, Lisa." #songsincode[Twitter.com/SimpsonCrazy via Sx2]
6:27 AM Aug 21st from web
if( floors.stickEMart && dad.sickEMart && hurl(brickEMart) && doh ) needKwikEMart = false; #songsincode #simpsons
7:54 AM Aug 21st from web
class Monorail { awfullyLoud=false; trackCouldBend=false; brainDeadSlobs.give(cushyJobs); sentByDevil=false; } #simpsons #songsincode
9:15 AM Aug 21st from web
Labels: RDRR REPORT, WEB-WATCH
posted 8/22/2009 | permalink
Bongo Hires Mexican
THE BONGO BEAT BART ART MARGINAL THINKING DEPT.
Bongo Comics has outsourced yet another job that could have gone to a hard-working American cartoonist to some Mexican immigrant named Sergio Aragones. [The Beat]
Bongo Comics has outsourced yet another job that could have gone to a hard-working American cartoonist to some Mexican immigrant named Sergio Aragones. [The Beat]
Labels: BART ART, THE BONGO BEAT
posted 8/22/2009 | permalink
How Either Matt Groening or Sam Simon Saved Drew Carey's Life
GROEN DRAIN SUDDENLY SIMON
From a British tabloid article about WWE wrestler guy Glenn "Kane" Jacob:
From a British tabloid article about WWE wrestler guy Glenn "Kane" Jacob:
One of Kanes [sic] finest hours was the 2001 Royal Rumble where he went an hour before sailing over the top. He remembers the occasion fondly, because he nearly killed celebrity guest Drew Carey.If this anecdote is true, it is very likely that Kane confused Groening with former executive producer Sam Simon, who was the 2004 World Boxing Manager of the Year and a producer, writer and director for The Drew Carey Show. [Daily Star]"Two things I remember the most hitting Honkey with the guitar, I should have done the shuffle!! The Drew Carey deal was funny too."
"He was there with Matt Groening, the creator of the Simpsons, a friend of his and we were in the locker rooms, I was showing him what we were going to do with the chokeslam deal.
I grabbed him and picked him up and Matt starts yelling stop stop stop, and I looked up. The roof was so low I nearly put Drew Careys [sic] head through the ceiling. I almost became infamous for killing Drew Carey before he got out there."
Labels: GROEN DRAIN, SUDDENLY SIMON
posted 8/18/2009 | permalink
Bongo Comics Turns A Blind Eye To Copyright Infringement!!!
THE BONGO BEAT
Lawyers for 20th Century Fox take copyright infringement of The Simpsons very seriously. During the early 1990s, lawyers were sent to vendors who sold bootleg Bart Simpson t-shirts. In the late 1990s, many Simpsons sites received cease & desist orders for the grave crime of hosting framegrabs. More recently, Fox lawyers managed to take down a series of Simpsons video parodies featuring OJ Simpson. Even creator Matt Groening, who has a collection of bootleg Simpsons merchandise, personally dispatches lawyers from time to time - see the Bunnyhop incident.
Ben Jones, an artist in the art collective Paper Rad, has recieved many acclaims for his work; Paper Rad's avant-garde comics often appear in hip indie comics anthologies such as The Best American Comics and Kramer's Ergot. Following the massive Kramer's Ergot 7, of which Groening was a fellow contributor, Jones was asked to contribute to the upcoming Treehouse of Horror comic book. According to a 2003 Comics Reporter profile, this would not be his first Simpsons comic:
Yet, despite such egregious acts of copyright infringement, Jones and Paper Rad do not appear to have been punished for their actions. As far as I can tell from a Google search, the art collective has never received a cease & desist letter from Fox's attorneys. In fact, with his contribution to Simpsons Comics, Jones appears to have been rewarded for his copyright infringement!!! He is being endorsed, at least implicitly, by Bongo Comics, Groening, and Fox, who are apparently turning a blind eye to his wholesale appropriation of their copyrights. Is Jones receiving preferential treatment simply for being a celebrity? Is this really the message Bongo Comics wants to be sending to infringers?
Lawyers for 20th Century Fox take copyright infringement of The Simpsons very seriously. During the early 1990s, lawyers were sent to vendors who sold bootleg Bart Simpson t-shirts. In the late 1990s, many Simpsons sites received cease & desist orders for the grave crime of hosting framegrabs. More recently, Fox lawyers managed to take down a series of Simpsons video parodies featuring OJ Simpson. Even creator Matt Groening, who has a collection of bootleg Simpsons merchandise, personally dispatches lawyers from time to time - see the Bunnyhop incident.
Ben Jones, an artist in the art collective Paper Rad, has recieved many acclaims for his work; Paper Rad's avant-garde comics often appear in hip indie comics anthologies such as The Best American Comics and Kramer's Ergot. Following the massive Kramer's Ergot 7, of which Groening was a fellow contributor, Jones was asked to contribute to the upcoming Treehouse of Horror comic book. According to a 2003 Comics Reporter profile, this would not be his first Simpsons comic:
Effective as illustration, Ben Jones' comics demand reading. As noted by several of his fellow cartoonists, on no planet should a comic about Simpsons characters Homer and Moe taking a walk, getting high and skinny dipping ("Ho and Mo") work on any level for a single second, let alone be funny and affecting and a touch profound. In the Alfe stories, Jones' most frequent recurring feature and among the first comics the artist tried to sell through Million Year Picnic, Jones uses a sizable, extremely odd cast to pay tribute to simple pleasures and the way kindness and patience act as buttresses against life's intolerable cruelties. Jones is to the idea of friendship what the cartoonist Jack Jackson is to Texas history, its primary comics chronicler.Additionally, The Simpsons is a recurring motif in Paper Rad's ouvre, as evidenced by their website.
Yet, despite such egregious acts of copyright infringement, Jones and Paper Rad do not appear to have been punished for their actions. As far as I can tell from a Google search, the art collective has never received a cease & desist letter from Fox's attorneys. In fact, with his contribution to Simpsons Comics, Jones appears to have been rewarded for his copyright infringement!!! He is being endorsed, at least implicitly, by Bongo Comics, Groening, and Fox, who are apparently turning a blind eye to his wholesale appropriation of their copyrights. Is Jones receiving preferential treatment simply for being a celebrity? Is this really the message Bongo Comics wants to be sending to infringers?
Labels: BART ART, THE BONGO BEAT
posted 8/18/2009 | permalink
