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Jerry Robinson, Batman's Joker artist, dies in NY
NEW YORK (AP) — Comic book industry pioneer Jerry Robinson, who helped create Batman sidekick Robin the Boy Wonder and their arch-nemesis The Joker, has died at age 89. An editor and friend, Charles Kochman, said Robinson was different from most...Tags: Fine Artists, Genres, Artists, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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SpongeBob in hot water from study of 4-year-olds
CHICAGO (AP) — The cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is in hot water from a study suggesting that watching just nine minutes of that program can cause short-term attention and learning problems in 4-year-olds. The problems were seen in a...Tags: SpongeBob SquarePants (tv program), Medical Procedures and Tests, Child Development, PBS (tv network), Entertainment
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LETTER: Liked Cartoon Dogging Obama
The guest editorial cartoonist (Summers) in Tuesday's Courant [May 21] was right on. You can rest assured that the buck will never stop at the Oval Office. It will also never stop at any of the cabinet secretaries or other high-ranking individuals in...Tags: White House, Entertainment
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Colleagues recall a man of words, wisdom — Charley Reese
Editor's note: We asked for remembrances about Charley Reese from his former colleagues on the Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board. Jane Healy (former editorial page editor): "Charley's strength was in always surprising readers. Liberal readers would...Tags: Periodicals, Entertainment
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Legendary cartoonist announces retirement
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Dick Locher, 83, has put the stopper in the ink bottle for the last time after more than 40 years of capturing modern life through political cartooning. He recently announced his retirement. Dick's career as...
Tags: Entertainment, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Awards and Prizes, Ronald Reagan
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Art of the slam dunk: Miami Heat-themed works go on display
This month couldn't be better-timed for collage artist Erika King. While the Miami Heat boys are busy sharp-shooting in the NBA playoffs, her commemorative photo-collages of LeBron, Wade, Bosh and other ballers are on display at Miami Beach's Williams...
Tags: Pat Riley, National Basketball Association, The Boston Globe, Arts and Culture, Arts
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Review: "A Curious Man" by Neal Thompson
In 1933, Robert Ripley crash-landed into Chicago, opening his first "Odditorium" exhibition at the World's Fair. At the showing, writes Neal Thompson in “A Curious Man,” a fascinating and fun biography of the "Believe It or Not!" creator,...Tags: NBC (tv network), Manhattan (New York City), Heart Attack, The Boston Globe, Arts and Culture
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A Valentine for Mom
Tribune cartoonists first celebrated Mother's Day in 1914, when President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed it a national holiday, but it wasn't until the late 1930s that the cartoons made an annual appearance. Find more cartoons online at chicagotribune.com/...
Tags: Entertainment, Woodrow Wilson, Mother's Day
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'Timmy Failure' feeds Stephan Pastis' success
The last time "Pearls Before Swine" cartoonist Stephan Pastis walked the halls of San Marino's K.L. Carver Elementary School, he was an 11-year-old, practical-joke-loving fifth-grader with a penchant for irreverent doodling — things like the Ty-D-...
Tags: University of California, Berkeley, Entertainment, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Newspaper and Magazine
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Web campaign to build a Tesla museum succeeds in purchasing lab
The campaign led by Web cartoonist The Oatmeal to buy Nikola Tesla's last laboratory and turn it into a museum honoring the scientist has succeeded in purchasing the property. Matthew Inman, the artist behind The Oatmeal, put up a comic strip announcing...
Tags: Politics, Computer Hardware, Science, Museums, Elections
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LETTER: NRA Cartoon Unfair
Does cartoonist Bob Englehart have a free pass with The Courant? His cartoons often reveal his shallow understanding of the real facts behind news stories, but never has he been so outside the boundaries of fairness as he was with his May 7 cartoon....Tags: Entertainment
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Mobile computing
From the Chicago TribuneOnce upon a time, long long ago, the personal computer transformed the global economy, made heroes of nerds and gave everyday people the processing power once reserved for space scientists. Now, of course, smartphones and tablets are turning PCs into...Tags: Eric Schmidt, Entertainment, Science and Technology, Microsoft Corporation, Google Glass
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