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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: Robin the Boy Wonder (fictional character), Batman (fictional character), Arts, Artists, Superman (fictional character)
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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: Child Development, PBS (tv network), Medical Procedures and Tests, Nickelodeon (tv network), Health
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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: Arts, Elections, Politics, Museums, Science and Technology
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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: Arts, Sports, Chicago Bulls, Erik Spoelstra, Miami Heat
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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: Authors, Human Interest, The New York Times, Heart Attack, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
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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: Woodrow Wilson, Mother's Day, Entertainment
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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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'Annie' items boost museum's collection
Representatives of the Lombard Historical Museum didn't exclaim "Leapin' Lizards" when they recently received a collection of memorabilia related to village history, but it would have been in keeping with the indomitable spirit of the red-head on whom the...
Tags: Arts, Politics, Lobbying, Museums, Chicago Tribune
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Bitstrips comics explode onto Facebook
Facebook may have a lot of uses for social networking and time-wasting, but lately it's been offering a creative outlet, too. A new comic-making application called Bitstrips is popping up more and more on Facebook updates. And after just a few months,...
Tags: Social Media, New Products, Personal Service, Media Industry, Entertainment
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RIP, PC
Once 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: Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Hardware, Microsoft Corporation, Google Glass
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5/8/2013-Good Times At City Hall
The CEO of Yahoo is right. There's something to be said for being in the office with your fellow employees. I had an entirely different cartoon in mind for today when a staffer came up to me and said, "Are you going to draw a cartoon about Mayor Caviar?"...
Tags: Vitamin Therapy, Dietary Supplements, Omega-3 Fatty Acid, Caviar, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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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: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (movie), Justice System, Teaching and Learning, Newspaper and Magazine, San Marino
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