Sentences with phrase «comic strip characters»

Other representations include the successful defense of Disney and ABC in an infringement suit filed by the owner of comic strip characters, the representation of ESPN in a trademark and copyright infringement suit involving a reality television program, the representation of Fox in a trademark infringement suit over the name of one of its television networks, and the representation of The Gator Corporation in multidistrict trademark litigation involving pop - up Internet advertising.

He studied art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1945 to 1949 and then went to New York City where he became an illustrator until 1960 when he began making paintings based on comic strip characters such as Popeye, Dick Tracy, and Superman.

The comic strip character, Pogo, stated the theological truth: «We have met the enemy and he is us!»

In some sense there is no mythic comic strip character who has replaced her for girls and young teens today.

The comic strip character, Flash Gordon, was a devilishly handsome Yale graduate and polo player.

My favorite character was a broken, lethargic and slightly psychotic Starch for her continuous laser beam and homing micro missiles, while my brother preferred Holly, partly because she's a freckled and bespectacled redhead nerd (eerily reminiscing a comic strip character we once created).

Vimeo «Life Inside Jabba the Hutt» EW longform goes «sex lies and fifty shades of grey» Film School Rejects allows for the non-story silliness of imagining Ava DuVernay directing a superhero movie Hubpages how Franklin became the first black Peanuts comic strip character Pajiba on the relatable marital awkwardness of HBO's Together starring Melanie Lynskey and Mark Duplass AV Club remembers Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen in Starman (1984).

We named him Fury after a comic strip character.

There is a lot of talk about penalizing polluters, but as the comic strip character Pogo said, «They are us.»

Not exact matches

His nine years at Pacific Bell helped inspire the characters for his comic strip, which he originally created on nights and weekends while still working his day job.

Whether following the adventures of Pepe Urban, a comic - strip character with a unique voice and interesting stories to share or participating in one of the happy hours, lectures or conferences, they can feel part of something bigger: this is the spirit of URBAN STATION.

Cartoon and comic - strip characters trade bangs and pows and oofs; «family» TV programs get laughs from verbal combat instead of physical assault.

Flytrap Finnegan, the World's Worst Caddie, was a comic - strip character who never stopped talking.

Tabletop games, particularly football, are all the rage, and no one plays tougher ball than a bunch of comic - strip characters in Chicago

Cutkosky remembers his own graduate student days well enough to identify with the comic strip's characters.

His «The Power of Procrastination» lecture presents the comic strip and its characters, explores the pros and cons (mostly cons) of being a graduate student, and discusses the pros and cons (mostly pros) of procrastination.

In 1904, the creator of the Buster Brown comic strip traveled to the St. Louis World's Fair and sold licenses to approximately 200 different companies to use his Buster Brown character as advertisement for their products.

Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good Pogo is the title and central character of a long - running daily American comic strip, created by cartoonist Walt Kelly (1913 — 1973) and distributed by the

This sci - fi series set in the year 3203 was based upon the characters of the Alex Raymond - created comic strip.

This is after all a story featuring teenage characters called Mr Fantastic (special power: stretchy limbs), The Invisible Woman (special power: take a guess) and the villainous Victor von Doom, adapted from a lightweight 1960s comic strip and given a twenty - first century makeover by a guy whose first film, 2011's «Chronicle», was an ugly, noisy found - footage mess.

«Moomins on the Riviera — Moomins, fairy tale characters in a series of popular books and comic strips from Finland, decide to take a vacation in the south of France -LRB-»cause who wouldn't?)

Based on the»30s comic - strip character, Secret Agent X-9 was a black - and - white adventure serial from Universal.

It's Me, Margaret» by Judy Blume, Roald Dahl's «Fantastic Mr Fox,» and Maurice Sendak's «In the Night Kitchen»; Gary Trudeau's popular comic strip Doonesbury debuts in US papers; Andy Warhol debuted several new pieces including «Silver Car Crash» which sold a few years ago for a new Warhol record of «$ 105.4 million; In comic books, «Silver Surfer» lost his monthly book while «Green Lantern» starts having to share his with «Green Arrow» plus the iconic supporting characters J Jonah Jameson and Agent Nick Fury, and the villain The Vulture made their debuts in The Amazing Spider - Man; Astro Boy became the first manga to go to animated series in Japan.

This film is pretty much a very pared - down version of the lengthy saga that appeared in the comics, stripping away many characters, side plots, and all sense of depth that were explored on the printed page.

If we continue the odd logic, wouldn't they also have felt the need to deride the stage musical because it wasn't Harold Gray's comic strip or, for that matter, the comic because it wasn't the James Whitcomb Riley poem that inspired the character?

Monica Vitti stars as the title character in Joseph Losey's «Modesty Blaise,» a 1966 silly adven ture movie based on a British comic strip that revels in the Swinging Sixties.

If the characters are all hand - me - downs from The Honeymooners and I Love Lucy, the jokey decor and background detail seem like third - generation Xeroxes from Li'l Abner (both movie versions as well as the comic strip) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (the movie) decked out with southern California's architecture and exterior night lighting.

By day he's arguing legal briefs through strenuous post-graduate studies, and by night he's suffering through Harry's constant, borderline suicidal temper tantrums; Hollander, a gifted comedic actor, is stuck playing this character as a skimpy comic strip, bemoaning any and all indignities with a slump of his bathrobe - clad shoulders.

Steven «Flash» Gordon is a character in a science fiction adventure comic strip written by Alex Raymond.

The endlessly inventive mind of writer Alex Garland and the frenetic vision of director Peter Travis bring Dredd to life as a futuristic neo-noir action film that returns the celebrated character to the dark, visceral incarnation from John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra's revered comic strip.

It's the humor that carries the day — that, and the nostalgic twinges at seeing the beloved comic characters going through the usual routines (Lucy's psychiatric help booth, Linus» obsession with his blanket, and more) familiar from the long - running strip.

Filmed in 3D with stunning slow motion photography sequences, the film returns the celebrated character to the dark, visceral incarnation from John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra's revered comic strip.

May 11, 2017 • His creator killed the frog in a comic strip, after the character spent much of 2016 tied to the alt - right.

SM: For me, I would say to them if the things that you loved about reading the comic strip or the earlier specials, the heart, the emotion, and the laughs that you have with these characters, we have retained every bit of that.

The endlessly inventive mind of writer Alex Garland and the frenetic vision of director Peter Travis bring DREDD to life as a futuristic neo-noir action film that returns the celebrated character to the dark, visceral incarnation from John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra's revered comic strip.

In the Peanuts comic strip, the character Linus said, «There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people... religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.»

It could be used for a short comic strip about a character or a short story.

These Book Projects with Grading Rubrics include: - Introduction - student reading record - new book jacket - pyramid diorama - act it out - letter to the author - dress - up character - salesperson - book critic - letter to friend - radio or television broadcast - comic strip - sing a song - character puppet - mobile - new words - Venn diagram - poster board - map with key places - make a web - create a new page - story sequence - advertise - story flip book - character map - book award - new ending - story chart - story map - postcard - story flag - letter to the author questions - character feeling - real or make - believe - character Venn diagram - fact finder - cause and effect - fact and opinions - event timeline - story quilt - book news - grading rubric These are GREAT for reading workshops.

Work with students to create a model of the final poster, using an imaginary character, such as one from a cartoon or comic strip, for a demo.

A sample question (not from SAMs paper) Spellings and vocabulary A few pages dedicated to plot (cloze test, table of contents for each scene and a comic strip) Gap fill for characters My students found this booklet invaluable - they really benefitted from having the text broken down into manageable chunks.

According to the deal announcement, the book will take readers «on a romp through history and literature with dignity for few and cookies for all, with comic strips about famous authors, their characters, political and historical figures, all drawn in Kate Beaton's pared - down, excitable style.»

Over on NPR's All Tech Considered blog, Nishat Kurwa discusses the recent success of Bitstrips, an app that allows users to make cartoon avatars of themselves and their friends and then insert those characters into their own comic strips.

The very richness of the Marvel universe, however, is also the greatest barrier to entry for many people: So many characters, constantly changing not only over time but also across different titles — Spider - Man used to be Peter Parker in the Amazing Spider - Man comics (and he still is in the newspaper comic strip) but now the former villain Otto Octavius has taken him over in Superior Spider - Man, while Miles Morales wears the webs in Ultimate Comics: Spider - Man.

While the strip and the comic book feature the same characters, they do not share the same continuity.

There's no animation — the storyline is advanced with four - panel comic strips — but you can almost hear the characters» goofy voices as you're reading the dialogue.

The major gag in George Herrimann's Krazy Kat comic strip, which ran from 1913 to 1944, was Ignatz Mouse's repeated attempts to clobber the title character with a brick.

David talks to us about his ensemble comic strip Intelligent Life (King Features Syndicate) and how he uses social media to spark life into the characters.

The title character started out in The Gumps, then got his own strip in the 1920s, but apparently the strip survived, on the sports pages, because folks who played the horses believed there were clues to the winners hidden in the comic in some sort of secret code.

* Fred Basset, the main character in the comic strip Fred Basset, created by Alex Graham in 1963.

Meet MUTTS comic strip creator (and Brooklyn resident) Patrick McDonnell and his characters, Mooch and Earl.