...in beguiled eyeballs, extended out from skulls an inch more than normal. With the release of " 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea " 55 years ago, Walt Disney stumbled upon a mostly unexplored emotional response from movie audiences. This unique...

In this article: Walt Disney, Berkeley Breathed, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Kirk Douglas, Captain Nemo, Imperial Star Destroyer, Peanut butter, and Alligator

...Michalek will oversee bidding on a pair of white boxer shorts signed by David Sedaris , original cartoons out of our guestbook by Matt Groening and Lynda Barry , a poster signed by Annie Leibovitz , an original painting from the Big Fucking...

In this article: Champagne, Lynda Barry, David Sedaris, Annie Leibovitz, Matt Groening, and Ed Murray

' DILBERT ' (UFS)Enlarge Image In recent weeks, some 'Riffs readers have questioned why it was the Scott Adams comic strip " DILBERT." and not the homegrown "CUL DE SAC," that was chosen to remain housed in The Washington Post Magazine ,...

In this article: Dilbert, Scott Adams, Zeitgeist, Calvin and Hobbes, The Washington Post Magazine, and The Boondocks

Bad bosses good for economy, says Scott Adams - Corporate Trends-News By Company-News-The Economic Times Bad bosses good for economy, says Scott Adams 17 Nov 2009, 0035 hrs IST, Vikas Kumar , NEW DELHI : For someone who built his...

In this article: Scott Adams, Dilbert, Recession, US, Dogbert, Economic Times, Pacific Bell, Wells Fargo, and India

...part of it," says Foxx , who says he has been following Butler 's career since his international breakthrough with 300 as the leader of Frank Miller's re-imagined Spartan warriors. " 300 was my movie. I'd go around saying the lines. Butler...

In this article: Jamie Foxx, The Soloist, Gerard Butler, Ray Charles, 300, Law Abiding Citizen, Mike Tyson, Michael Mann, Miami Vice, and Lionel Richie

Categories: Anthologies, Cartoons, Comic Books, Review I can't really overemphasize the role Berke Breathed 's Pulitzer-winning '80s comic strip Bloom County played in my life. Its prepubescent hero, Milo Bloom , was a budding journalist of...

In this article: Bloom County, Bill the Cat, Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury, Opus, God, The Academia Waltz, Cutter John, Binkley, and University of Texas, Austin

...with incredulity, pointing out that not only is King a pop- culture omnivore, but has played on stage with The Simpsons creator Matt Groening in his Rock Bottom Remainders band. King then gave a different account of the book's origins,...

In this article: Stephen King, Under the Dome, The Simpsons Movie, Anxiety, Cancer, Paris Review, Lee Child, Jack Reacher, and The Stand

...muses. Finance | "We generally hate companies when we think they have too much power. And that correlates with profits. " So writes Scott Adams , the man behind the " Dilbert " comic strip, in a brief blog post suggesting that maybe the time...

In this article: Dilbert, Scott Adams, Microsoft, and UPN

...all chose the same book. Its identity will be revealed at the auction, along with a drawing commissioned from political cartoonist Mike Luckovich of the three men patiently waiting to have the book signed by its main character.

In this article: Carl Hiaasen, Jane Goodall, Barack Obama, Jimmy Buffett, Anthropologist, Playboy magazine, Mike Luckovich, EBay, and Tarzan

...I got with my Graveyard Book Award." So I bought this. It's "The Murder Re-Enacted": It's an E. H. Shepard illustration ( he 's most famous for illustrating Winnie the Pooh ) from Kenneth Grahame's book The Golden Age. Kenneth Grahame...

In this article: Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age, E. H. Shepard, The Wind in the Willows, Dream Days, A.A. Milne, Mr Toad, Toad of Toad Hall, and Winnie the Pooh

...day -- raises a mug of root beer in honor of "Willie and Joe" creator Bill Mauldin -- aka World War II 's greatest cartoonist. Mauldin and Charles Schulz (who both died in this past decade) -- how we miss them both. Then there's my repeated...

In this article: Veterans' Day, Bill Mauldin, Charles Schulz, Peanuts, World War II, and Fort Hood

October 2009, Hardcover, 247 pages, $24.95 The Totally Unauthorized Biography of... Bill Watterson?!? We're by now all familiar with unauthorized biographies of rock stars and sleazy politicians, but it's a bit strange to come across one...

In this article: Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, and Dave Matthews

...Moore and Dave Gibbon 's seminal 1980's comic book, Watchmen , ushered in a new era of dark and brooding antiheroes. After his adaptation of Frank Miller's 300 , director Zack Snyder was tasked with bringing the comic to the big screen. Watchmen...

In this article: Watchmen, Pixar, Zack Snyder, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, DVD, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Hasbro, Bruce Timm, Batman, and Alan Moore

...every day, and I still wake up with a stomachache." The panel -- which included Feiffer , Ware , cartoonist Lynda Barry and Matt Groening , creator of " The Simpsons " and (as Ware pointed out) the only cartoonist on that stage still churning...

In this article: Jules Feiffer, Chris Ware, Lynda Barry, Matt Groening, Candy, Life in Hell, Village Voice, Chicago Reader, and Francis W. Parker School

...touch is missing, although fresh tales have their charms More than 80 years ago, this ditty helped make A.A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard's original stories about Winnie the Pooh an enduring classic. In its wake comes a modern version...

In this article: A. A. Milne, Pooh, Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Tigger, Ernest H. Shepard, Rabbit, and Piglet

...when it was announced earlier this year that he would pen the sequel to Winnie-the-Pooh , 80 years after AA Milne and the illustrator EH Shepard first brought Christopher Robin and the little yellow bear to a generation of children, knives...

In this article: Winnie-the-Pooh, James Bond, Eoin Colfer, AA Milne, Dave Eggers, Where the Wild Things Are, Jean Rhys, and Hitchhiker's Guide

Over at the comic book blog Robot 6, Sean Collins reports that Frank Miller , the celebrated creator of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns , Sin City , and 300 , has become a regular commenter at the blog of conservative writer and military...

In this article: Frank Miller, Victor Davis Hanson, Ayn Rand, 300, Martha Washington, The Spirit, Barack Obama, Sin City, and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

...Day Parade, 1986 Photo: Joseph Sohm/Corbis ' Garfield ' is a multi-million pound phenomenon - he even has his own credit card When Jim Davis , the creator of Garfield , the lazy, sarcastic cartoon cat, heard that President Obama was looking...

In this article: Jim Davis, Garfield, Garfield, Dog, Asthma, Charles Schulz, Paws Inc, Odie, and Barack Obama