Lost Weekend
Well, for once I spent a weekend without making an X-MEN:TAS post. Sorry. I had a defendable excuse. The photo below shows me and eleven other riders of obscure Italian …
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X-MEN:TAS WRITER E-PUBLISHES DARK COMIC NOVEL
Without Mark Edens, there would be no X-MEN:TAS as we all know and love it. We would have stumbled through somehow, but Mark’s presence was critical to the storytelling. Mark …
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY X-MEN:TAS!
Today marks the 24th anniversary of the first airing of X-MEN:TAS on the Fox Television Network on October 31st, 1992. (It is also Halloween, and would have been my late …
ESTABLISHING CHARACTER: DISITINCTIVE DETAILS IN WRITING AND DRAWING
Successful animated characters are distinctively written and drawn. One of the problems with the original run of X-Men comics (’63-’70) was not the talent of the creators (initially legends Jack …
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CONNECTING OUR STORIES TO THE MARVEL BOOKS
X-MEN:TAS has a complex relationship with the many series of X-MEN comic books that we respectfully mined as source material. Many fans have made lists of the connections they see, …
OUR BOOK NEEDS TESTIMONIALS
Thanks for the reaction to the announcement of our X-MEN:TAS book, due out next year. Ten times the usual number of people checked out this site over the past 24 …
BEST INTENTIONS
Your first thought when watching (or writing) a televised cartoon is rarely: “What would the government think of this story?” That’s good. Countries where governments completely control the content of …
BOOKS to TUBE to SCREEN
Storytelling worlds evolve. Plays become operas become movies become essays become performance art. Sherlock Holmes has been reincarnated and re-imagined every other year for over a century. What compels creative …
THANKS FOR WATCHING
We who work in television get graded every week. If you viewers don’t watch our show, we get fired. Almost all TV series fail,most very quickly. It’s a weird career, …
IMAGES & WORDS: EQUALLY ESSENTIAL, STRONGER TOGETHER
There have forever been questions about art, how it affects us, which elements are most important. Is it the images or the words? Movies and TV and live theater and …
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACK
Today is evidently Jack Kirby’s birthday. I know this only because hundreds of artists have posted images honoring him all over the web. I haven’t been able to save many …
CHARLES & MAGNUS
There is no more intense relationship in the X-Men universe that than between Professor Charles Xavier and his longtime friend and adversary, Magneto (or “Magnus” or “Eric Lehnsherr” — he …