Growing up with bugs was the most natural thing in the world for Creepie, but her parents knew she had to learn to survive in the outside world. So they decided it was time to send Creepie to school…with oversized, clod-footed bipeds…the humans!!!  Read more>>

The Amazing 300 Classic Cartoon Collection

This collection of cartoons is a real bang for your buck. Where can you spend about 16.99 and get 35 hours of classic cartoons of your favorite characters in the history of animation. All these cartoons are in the public domain. A stigma to some, but for the true fan of animation this is an amazing deal. Some of these cartoons are not meant for kids, bigotry is abound with racist overtones of a time of ignorance long gone.

 

This amazing collection features some of the greatest classic cartoons ever put together. Popeye, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Betty Boop, Felix the Cat–the list goes on and on, and every one is a little slice of animation history. Whether young or old, these 300 charming animated tales will bring a smile to anyone’s face.

Inside Woody Allen

How can you turn mundane into a popular comic strip, and how many newspaper strips are based on a real life Hollywood actor. Stumped? Inside Woody Allen, was first published in 1976 and ran until 1984. This would be the longevity of Allen’s geek popularity on pop culture. For eight years newspapers were subjected to Woody’s life in comic strip form. Not exactly the best illustrated or thought out strip, but enough to merit a collected book of the strip. Stu Hample is the man co-responsible for bringing the lined neurotic rants of Woody.  Stu is alive and kicking with a blog on Amazon and you can buy the original Inside Woody Allen art on Ebay.

We are working in upgrading Sandbox World to a new format in the next three days. Stay tuned.

Ralph Bakshi with a rare cartoon from Paramount called Marvin Digs. Dig it man!

101 Ways to Kill Your Boss

Graham Roumieu is not your regular writer/artist he has gone from his latest oeuvres from last book simply entitled ” Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir” to the latest “101 Ways to Kill Your Boss “. This is not a manual folks. Repeat not a manual! This little romp of a book pokes fun at the everyday hatred for your boss and interesting ways of disposing him or her. This book is not on the violent side, if you like Charles Addams and Edward Gorey, then this book is for you. A bit milder than the other two but a great little book.

I am getting a bit frustrated lately with the recycling of characters and stories. We had grey, green, and back to grey and green once again for the Hulk. Now we are getting the red hulk. Wow! That is a big change. Let’s give it up for the colorist who has to remember that the red is (D6071B)*. Captain America is dead. The Hulk is red. What next? Thor will be back from the dead.(Oh they just did that one) I would like to see new characters. When was the last time both Marvel and DC created new characters? Not many since the 90’s. Why? Royalties of course. You have pay more for the creations. More for the shareholders if you keep recycling.  Think of all the money when the characters cross over to the big screen and you have to pay the creators. Can’t do that, they don’t have families to feed.  You can’t dish out for in-house royalties. Milk your characters for what they are worth. Now that makes me red. Must be the companies don’t want to see red, keep the books in the black. (000000)*

*denotes Adobe Color Picker (cheap humor) More colors>>

Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children’s Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became An American Icon Along the Way.

Can you believe it, it’s been 65 years since the first book from Golden Books was published. They changed the face of children’s books publishing for quite some time. From bookstores to supermarket stands there these little books stood for many years and if you had a few bucks to spare you could arise the twinkle in your kid’s eye. Those little books still warm the my youth and I can rekindle earlier thoughts of innocence. Alas, Golden Books was sold to Random House and swallowed to the big corporate machine, now they are basically relying on the classic reprints. Mind you which is not too bad considering they might print new inferior stories. So let’s celebrate 65 years of a great tradition of kid books.

Wired magazine is out already this week and they have the coolest issue ever about the invasion of Manga and how it conquered North America. You could buy the magazine or get it free online in a few days. Either way the latest issue is an amazing read. Read more>>