We take a look at an episode of the most recent Peanuts adaptation, the one from Apple TV: One of a Kind Marcie. This is probably the first ever Peanuts property to center Marcie. How does it hold up? How's the Peanuts world without Charles Schultz? And, most importantly of all, what are the Peanuts characters' political affiliations?…

Morrie Turner's Wee Pals imagines "what if Peanuts was integrated?" Featuring a rainbow coalition of kids from all races, religions, and abilities, Wee Pals is a piece of aspirational art imagining a better future. And Rankin-Bass's animated adaption "Kid Power" certainly shares that ethos. Join us for a discussion of the mildly didactic Kid Power …

Morrie Turner's Wee Pals imagines "what if Peanuts was integrated?" Featuring a rainbow coalition of kids from all races, religions, and abilities, Wee Pals is a piece of aspirational art imagining a better future. And Rankin-Bass's animated adaption "Kid Power" certainly shares that ethos. Join us for a discussion of the mildly didactic Kid Power …

After the failure of the Dick Tracy movie, Warren Beatty was so mad at the studio that he decided to make sure the studio never regained the rights to make another Dick Tracy movie. To that end, every 12 years or so he makes a weird avant garde art piece dick tracy zoom interview intended to be seen by no one... but which allows him to retain copyr…

Jules Feiffer's comics in the Village Voice were THE THING back in the swingin' 60s or maybe the 50s, but we still remember them best as the thing that the last liberal wanted to read before he got got by Milo and Cutter John in Bloom County. Well, Feiffer wrote a movie script based on his comics back in the 80s and it got lost for 30 years, but no…

Everyone knows Prince Valiant, the comic strip that's NO FUN. You look at that wall of text and those serious illustrations and you just know this is a scam -- it's no whimsical fun comic strip, it's probably trying to teach you something! In 1997, Prince Valiant was adapted into a theatrical film with Katherine Heigl, Ron Pearlman, Warwick Davis, …

Everyone knows Prince Valiant, the comic strip that's NO FUN. You look at that wall of text and those serious illustrations and you just know this is a scam -- it's no whimsical fun comic strip, it's probably trying to teach you something! In 1997, Prince Valiant was adapted into a theatrical film with Katherine Heigl, Ron Pearlman, Warwick Davis, …

This week, we're going back... back... back in time to look at the very FIRST ever comic strip, Mutt and Jeff. America couldn't get enough of the adventures of a short guy and a tall guy who hung out together. Come for the weird Mutt and Jeff stitched-together Frankencartoon, stay for a long digression about Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, and a brand n…

Marmaduuuuuke! He's a big dog.

Once again, we're spending some time with Canada's favorite sons: The Foobs! Lynn Johnston's For Better or For Worse has an animated special all about the birth of April! What's the deal with April? Let's investigate!

Jane was a saucy 1940s British comic strip about a sweet young thing names Jane, famous for fighting nazis and losing her clothes through various contrived and saucy means. Jane was credited with helping the British drive back the axis in Burma, but does this late 80s big screen adaptation capture the sauciness of the original strips? We investigat…

Did you know that there are folks behind the Funnies? It's true! This 2018 documentary talks to all the big names: Lynn Johnston, Mell Lazarus, Mort Walker, Scott Adams, Etc, to learn all about what it takes to be a folk behind a funny. But you gotta listen to the notes that they're NOT playing!

Did you know that there are folks behind the Funnies? It's true! This 2018 documentary talks to all the big names: Lynn Johnston, Mell Lazarus, Mort Walker, Scott Adams, Etc, to learn all about what it takes to be a folk behind a funny. But you gotta listen to the notes that they're NOT playing!

Did you know that there are folks behind the Funnies? It's true! This 2018 documentary talks to all the big names: Lynn Johnston, Mell Lazarus, Mort Walker, Scott Adams, Etc, to learn all about what it takes to be a folk behind a funny. But you gotta listen to the notes that they're NOT playing!

In 1971, Michael Eisner decided he was going to make a commercial competitor for PBS's then ascendant Sesame Street. The result was Curiosity Shop, a show about four kids going to a curiosity shop run by the absent Mr. Jones. It featured music, puppets, and animation -- including appearances by the cast of Miss Peach, Dennis the Menace, BC, and Wiz…

In 1971, Michael Eisner decided he was going to make a commercial competitor for PBS's then ascendant Sesame Street. The result was Curiosity Shop, a show about four kids going to a curiosity shop run by the absent Mr. Jones. It featured music, puppets, and animation -- including appearances by the cast of Miss Peach, Dennis the Menace, BC, and Wiz…

In 1993, everyone's favorite menace, Dennis, made the jump to the big screen -- in a film that could almost be good if John Hughes wasn't so dedicated to recreating the success of Home Alone. Walter Matthau is forced to carry an entire film by himself, but, damn, does he do it!

In the early 80s, Hanna Barbera decided to take a little risk and tell the entire history of post-war America through the medium of rock and roll music and also put Scatman Crothers in it as a talking jukebox. It's like if Fantasia kind of sucked but was also about the most obvious boomer pleasing aspects of rock music. Morbiose joins us to talk ab…

It's Ethan's birthday, so we're taking a little detour from our usual wheelhouse to look at another 80s cartoon robot franchise... The GoBots! You may remember them as the poor man's transformers... and you'd probably be right! Are the GoBots going places or should they be going home? Ha ha, get it? Please yourself then.…

Happy birthday, Mickey Mouse!!! To celebrate Steamboat Willie finally, FINALLY falling into the public domain, we look at the 1988 television event Mickey's 60th Birthday, when a wizard makes Mickey lose his mojo and then he meets the cast of Cheers and Family Ties (big sit coms at the time, ask your parents). We ended up talking for two hours beca…

Happy birthday, Mickey Mouse!!! To celebrate Steamboat Willie finally, FINALLY falling into the public domain, we look at the 1988 television event Mickey's 60th Birthday, when a wizard makes Mickey lose his mojo and then he meets the cast of Cheers and Family Ties (big sit coms at the time, ask your parents). We ended up talking for two hours beca…

We're leaving our wheelhouse to discuss everyone's favorite Rankin Bass new year's special "Rudolph's Shiny New Year." Rudolph has to go to the archipelago of last years to save the baby new year and the important thing is that there's dinosaurs. A lot of questions are raised about how this worlds works, however.…

We're leaving our wheelhouse to discuss everyone's favorite Rankin Bass new year's special "Rudolph's Shiny New Year." Rudolph has to go to the archipelago of last years to save the baby new year and the important thing is that there's dinosaurs. A lot of questions are raised about how this worlds works, however.…

For listeners of Free From Corporate America's special edition audiobook, Jon Reed is now uploading chapters from his new book, The Book of Last Resort, Narrated by Rajeer Alford. This section containes the chapters: Jon Reed is now uploading audio podcast chapters from his new book, The Book of Last Resort - A Subversive Guide for Artists in the D…

For listeners of Free From Corporate America's special edition audiobook, Jon Reed is now uploading chapters from his new book, The Book of Last Resort, Narrated by Rajeer Alford. This section containes the chapters: The Necessary Redemption of Losing Your Illusions If You Want to Make Big Art, Live a Big Life Don’t Chase Love – Chase Your Muse Ins…

For listeners of Free From Corporate America's special edition audiobook, Jon Reed is now uploading chapters from his new book, The Book of Last Resort, Narrated by Rajeer Alford. This section containes the chapters: Scrape Deep – or Face the Creative Consequences Creativity is an Excavation On Political Activism, Self-Deception, and Art in Dangero…

For listeners of Free From Corporate America's special edition audiobook, Jon Reed is now uploading chapters from his new book, The Book of Last Resort, Narrated by Rajeer Alford. This section containes the chapters: Put Social Media on a Diet – or It Will Hurt You Artistically Unplugging and the Power of Deep Work Social Objects Want to Be Free – …

For listeners of Free From Corporate America's special edition audiobook, Jon Reed is now uploading chapters from his new book, The Book of Last Resort, Narrated by Rajeer Alford. This section containes the chapters: Your Success Better Be Weird Enough Face the Truth with Asher Lev – and Find Your Flow No Excuses – Punk Rock Your Way Forward Degree…

For listeners of Free From Corporate America's special edition audiobook, Jon Reed is now uploading chapters from his new book, The Book of Last Resort, Narrated by Rajeer Alford. This section containes the chapters: Pull Gold from the Feedback Loop – and Lose the BS The Artistic Perils of Friendship The Creative Virtues of Selfishness The Strange …

For listeners of Free From Corporate America's special edition audiobook, Jon Reed is now uploading chapters from his new book, The Book of Last Resort, Narrated by Rajeer Alford. This section containes the chapters: Routine Destroys “Someday" Unplug or All Is Lost – Filter, or Fail Sever the Link Between Art and Commerce Popular Success Is Unlikel…

For listeners of Free From Corporate America's special edition audiobook, Jon Reed is now uploading chapters from his new book, The Book of Last Resort, Narrated by Rajeer Alford. This section containes the chapters: To Rise Above the Noise, Find Your Greatness The Cult of Celebrity and the Attention Economy Crossroads The Social Noise Vortex Drown…

For listeners of Free From Corporate America's special edition audiobook, Jon Reed is now uploading chapters from his new book, The Book of Last Resort, Narrated by Rajeer Alford. This section containes the chapters: The Social Noise Threatens Our Creative Endeavors Your Creative Work Thrives on Free “Free” Isn’t Defeat – It’s About Using Digital t…

For listeners of Free From Corporate America's special edition audiobook, Jon Reed is now uploading chapters from his new book, The Book of Last Resort, Narrated by Rajeer Alford. This section containes Jon's book preface, as well as the chapters: - Embrace Your Subversive Creative Power - Who the Heck Is Jon Reed?…

It’s the season of giving… ourselves a break and just watching a ton of shows at once! Happy holidays once more from Mike and Ethan and our whole crew of cool friends that we invite over every year. Rocketshark, Morbiose, Fattyatomicmutant (from your favorite Tumblr memes!) and Glumdrop have joined us for some startlingly cynical Christmas specials…

For listeners of Free From Corporate America's special edition audiobook, Jon Reed is now uploading chapters from his new book, The Book of Last Resort, Narrated by Rajeer Alford. This section containes the foreword by Rachel Meyers.

In this episode, we look at the Peanuts special that's so normal that it's weird. Snoopy learns to do witchcraft and damns Charlie Brown to a living hell of invisibility. Also, Charlie Brown kicks the football??????!??!?!

What happens when everyone's favorite fat cat goes camping and encounters an escaped panther from the zoo? Well, that's pretty much it. Join us as we look at one of the lesser Garfield specials, we were gonna talk about "It's Magic, Charlie Brown!", the snoopy special with which it was originally paired, but we got too distracted talking about comm…

Mandrake the Magician has, for some reason, not made the jump to the big screen in this latest round of superhero mania, but the globe-trotting crime-fighting magician of the comics page has so much potential that we can’t help but imagine a much better movie than we got with the sole Mandrake film adaptation: this 1979 made-for-TV lost dud starrin…

It's after Thanksgiving, and that means it's time for everyone's favorite Thanksgiving special -- Tubby the Tuba! You know Tubby the Tuba, right? You will soon! Join us for this look at everyone's favorite opera for tiny tots about a tuba who joins the circus and also goes to adopt an orphan melody and there's a frog. This all seemed like a really …