Cartoons & Comics

Animation, Cartoons & Comics, Daily Bread

Daily Bread for 9.9.23: Bugs

by JOHN ADAMS • 09/09/2023 • Comments

Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 74. Sunrise is 6:28 AM and sunset 7:14 PM for 12h 46m 03s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 25.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1947, it’s the first case of a ‘computer bug‘ being found:…

Cartoons & Comics, Cats, Film

Friday Catblogging: Method Acting

by JOHN ADAMS • 03/04/2022 • Comments

Zoe Kravitz Reveals She Drank Milk Like A Cat To Prepare For The Batman Role…

Cartoons & Comics, Daily Bread, History, Politics

Daily Bread for 12.25.21: Santa as a Hero for the Union

by JOHN ADAMS • 12/25/2021 • Comments

Good morning. Christmas in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 42. Sunrise is 7:24 AM and sunset 4:26 PM for 9h 02m 32s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 65.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1758, Halley’s Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund…

Art, Cartoons & Comics, Education, Science/Nature, Technology

From Comic-Con@Home 2021: The Science of Art

by JOHN ADAMS • 07/25/2021 • Comments

How is STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) used to inspire and create our most beloved popular arts? What do portrayals of science and scientists in popular media get right and wrong? From world-building to special effects and cosplay, IF/THEN ambassadors (www.ifthenshecan.org) Sydney Hamilton (aerospace engineer), Myria Perez (paleontologist), Dr. Samantha Thi Porter (archaeologist), and Dr.…

Animation, Cartoons & Comics

Sunday Animation: Fiddlesticks (1930)

by JOHN ADAMS • 08/16/2020 • Comments

See IMDb Fiddlesticks: “The very first complete sound cartoon to be photographed in two-strip Technicolor.”

Animation, Cartoons & Comics

Sunday Animation: Riding the Rails

by JOHN ADAMS • 02/23/2020 • Comments

See Riding the Rails @ IMDb.

Animation, Cartoons & Comics

Tom & Jerry

by JOHN ADAMS • 02/10/2020 • Comments

Eighty years ago today, Tom and Jerry made their debut in the short Puss Gets the Boot. Initially named Jasper and Jinx at the time, they would go onto become the most famous animated cat and mouse duo of all time and pave the way for some of the greatest animated slapstick. pic.twitter.com/uLGUxxanZq — Animated…

Animation, Cartoons & Comics

Sunday Animation: Porky’s Garden

by JOHN ADAMS • 01/26/2020 • Comments

See Porky’s Garden @ IMDb.

Animation, Cartoons & Comics

Sunday Animation: Elmer’s Candid Camera (1940)

by JOHN ADAMS • 01/19/2020 • Comments

See Elmer’s Candid Camera @ IMDb.

Cartoons & Comics

Special Skills

by JOHN ADAMS • 03/02/2019 • Comments

America, Cartoons & Comics, History, Trump, Trump-Russia, Unfit

We’re Going to Need a Bigger Cartoon

by JOHN ADAMS • 07/17/2018 • Comments

In 1865, cartoonist Oscar Harpel drew A Proper Family Re-Union, depicting notorious American traitors Benedict Arnold and Jefferson Davis drinking a treason toddy of Satan’s creation. I’ll not presume to make the theological claim that Trump will, in fact, one day find himself in the company of those three, but as a political matter, America’s going…

Animation, Cartoons & Comics, Trump

Trump as The Joker from Batman: The Animated Series

by JOHN ADAMS • 01/11/2017 • Comments

We’ve a long, difficult slog ahead, but occasionally a bit of humor will make the journey easier. Mark Hamill, who was the voice of The Joker on Batman: The Animated Series, has recorded one of Trump’s many unhinged tweets as though Trump were that comic book villain: The Trumpster quote #1#ANewJeersToast https://t.co/qZQEGU18r6 — Mark Hamill…