From metaphoric mice to big (screen) cats, a roundup of recent eye-catching videos:
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METAMAUS:
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It’s been 25 years since Art Spiegelman first introduced “MAUS: A Survivor’s Tale,” the landmark 13-year project that is both a Holocaust story and the memoir of the cartoonist’s own relationship with his survivor father. To mark the anniversary, the 1992 Pulitzer Prize winner is being celebrated with the new “Metamaus” book/DVD package, due out next month. If you’re a fan, the video should intrigue further.
[ART SPIEGELMAN: The Interview]
[GRAND PRIZE: Spiegelman wins big at Angoulême]
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THE LION KING’s NEW THRONE:
Brad Pitt can climb to new creative heights, but he still can’t stand taller than Simba at the box office. As reported here yesterday, Disney’s Oscar-winning “The Lion King (3-D)” retained its throne in its second weekend of re-release, grossing $22.1-million to edge both the Pitt-starring tales of sabremetrics, “Moneyball,” and the feel-good animal story “Dolphin Tale.”
(E-AP: As for AP’s video voice-over, please note its error: Pitt plays A’s “general manager” Billy Beane, not “manager”; the A’s then-manager was Art Howe (Philip Seymour Hoffman). — M.C.)
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“MARK TWAIN AUTOBIOGRAPHY”:
The most excellent Michael Kupperman has begun touring in support of his time-traveling Clemens-as-superhero comic, “Mark Twain Autobiography 1910-2010” (Fantagraphics). This Saturday night, Kupperman will take his “Twain in the Membrane” book tour to the Mark Twain House in Hartford for a reading and signing. Here’s a look:
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FLORIAN SATZINGER:
Work In Progress 7 (2) from Florian Satzinger on Vimeo.
Here’s some beautiful character work from Austria’s Florian Satzinger, who blogs over at the Paperwalker Journal. The artist — who lectures in animation at the University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg — continues his work-in-progress videos featuring “warm-up sketches.” [h/t: TheDailyCartoonist].
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RIP, SERGIO BONELLI:
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The famed Italian cartoonist and editor has died near Milan at age 79. His works included “Zagor,” “Mister No,” “River Bill” and “Verdugo Ranch,” as well as stories for his father’s Tex Willer comic series. The Sergio Bonelli Editore website published the message: “Our editor, Sergio Bonelli ... died this morning after a short illness, The publisher thanks all those who, at at this time [want] to show their affection.”
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