Dan Zettwoch did the cover for this year’s current Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror special in his own, trademark style. Check out his blog for early sketches, and for info on an expo at Family in LA, where Sammy Harkham, Matt Groening, Jeffrey Brown, Jordan Crane, and Tim Hensley will also be signing copies.
Comex Paints claims they can match any color. Even iconic ones (and even more after the click).
Big news in the Belgian daily De Standaard : everybody’s favorite all-american disfunctional youngster Bart Simpson turns out to be a Tintin fan. In the episode In the name of the grandfather, the Simpson family takes a trip through Europe, and is greatly impressed by the beauty of Ireland. “It’s whole lot prettier than Belgium”, Bart says. His mother, Marge berates him: ‘If you hate Belgium so much, then I might as well take away your Tintin albums. ” Bart looks terrified and clings his copy of The crab with the golden claws to his chest. Neat !
We’ve seen ad campaigns with big cartoon hair before, and here is another one, for the Mini Cooper Cabrio.
(from Ads of the World)
Flemish cartoonist Steven De Rie created this poster for the 20th edition of the Wilrijk Comics Festival. Try and find all references to characters and comics-related news items.
I’m not much of a gamer – my favorite games are those little ditties that I can grasp in no time, that don’t take hours to boot up and configure, and that I can play whenever I have like five minutes. Lately, I’ve become quite addicted to Lazrhog’s iZoo, which is essentially a Bejeweled or Zoo Keeper clone for the Iphone and Ipod Touch. Gameplay is simple : just line up three animals and they disappear; a level is complete when you’ve made a specific number of animals disappear.
A nice touch to this game is the fact that it’s skinnable. So far, skins have been published using elements from similar games, like Chuzzle and the aforementioned Bejeweled, next to the original one (which is shown above on the left and, in all honesty, is a plain Zoo Keeper clone). They all follow the same path, with gamepieces that are easily identifyable by color and shape.
The Simpsons skin (shown on the right) is another matter – normally you would expect a typically branded skin of a good game not to add anything to gameplay. However, thanks to the fact that all Simpsons characters very much look alike (they are all yellow, they all have big eyes), finding three similar shapes in a row becomes just that nice little bit trickier
Yesterday on The Simpsons : Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore and Dan Clowes appear at a cooler comics store than Comic Book Guy’s. More pictures at scans_daily.
About a year ago, Dove ran a campaign featuring cartoon women like Jane Jetson and Marge Simpson, showing the benefits of Anti Frizz Creme, Volumizing Mousse, Define & Style Control Gel and Precision Volume Hairspray (the branding gurus had a day off when they thought of those names). It met with mixed reactions, and personally, I can’t say I’m overwhelmed by the idea, nor by the execution of it…
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