Steve Murray updates some classic literature for a piece by National Post books editor Mark Medley. Is it wrong that I would read The Instagram of Dorian Gray? Well, I'd skim it at least.
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Forty Fords A-Filming...
To celebrate Harrison Ford's 40th credited big-screen appearance in Cowboys & Aliens this weekend, The National Post's Steve Murray takes a look back at everyone's favourite acting chameleon. Click through for which role is which.
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Tim Burton's Green Eggs And Ham
I think a dark version of Dr. Seuss is well overdue and perhaps it could come to pass as National Post illustrator Steve Murray imagines some updates of childhood classics that could follow in Red Riding Hood‘s footsteps.
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Tim Burton Monster Mash-Up
Steve Murray strikes again with his interactive illustration of auteur Tim Burton's films for the National Post. Click through to roll over the images for tidbits of the director's feature films.
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The Depp Hatter's Tea Party
Tim Burton's Weekend At Bernie's
Poor Predictable Edward, Always Chooses Scissors
Scent Of A Politician
This will only make sense to Canadians or those who are disturbingly well informed about our political party leaders. Of course some of these scents might be easily applicable to any politician and not just those who suggest they "can smell the whiff of sulphur" on the other. (Graphic via Steve Murray)
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Fantastic Forefathers
Star Trek: Smells Like Certain Death
Private Eyes, They're Watching You...
Loved And Lost
Illustrator extraordinaire Steve Murray (aka Chip Zdarsky) drew this massive cast photo of Lost for the series finale. Click through for the flash version to see which season each character was introduced and how they died. For those interested in a full-size version, it is the cover of the arts section of Saturday's National Post, available at finer Canadian newsstands near you.
As for me, I'm going to miss the finale as it is inconveniently scheduled in the middle of a long weekend that is ostensibly in honour of Queen Victoria, but is mostly about going to cottages and drinking beer, which is what I'll be doing. But for all your Lost needs, head directly to Nik at Nite where Nikki Stafford will take excellent care of you.
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Lost: If It Weren't For Those Meddling Castaways...
Lost And Found: Oceanic Flight 815
Lost Tarot Cards
Private Eyes, They're Watching You...
The illustration is from the talented Steve Murray, aka Chip Zdarsky. You can follow him and John Oates' mustache of Twitter.
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J-Stache: Ride the Mustache
I'm A Jingle Bell Schmuck
Keyboard Cat: You Make My Dreams Come True
Disney Begins Imagineering Marvel
The House of Mouse's purchase of Marvel, mashing together Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck alongside Spider-Man and Wolverine has set off nerd alarm bells, as fans freak out about what Disney will do to their favourite superheroes... (Image via Daily What)
The National Post's Steve Murray manages to intercept a memo from Disney about some of the "helpful suggestions" they have to do.
Joey deVilla at Global Nerdy purposes an upside, a potential for a really interesting sequel to the game Kingdom Hearts.
Super Punch rounds up a few Disney/Marvel mashups, including Emilio J.Lopez's Spider-Man as a Mouseketeer and...
...Mickey vs. the Marvel Universe ...
Plus Matt Occhuizzo's Disney Avengers, among a few others.
Of course the fine folks at FARK had to have a go at it as well, in a ridiculously long thread.
As did Holy Taco with their Punisher meets the Seven Dwarfs, while speculating on the inner monologue of Stan Lee at the sale of his empire.Previously at Popped Culture...
Superheroes Don't Die, They Just Fade Away
Twisted Sisters
101 Sesame Street Muppets
101 Sesame Street Muppets
Oh, these are the people in your neighbourhood,In honour of 40 inspirational, celebrational, Muppetational Sesame Street years, my National Post colleague Steve Murray created an EPIC illustration of 101 Muppets, quickly succumbing to carpal tunnel soon thereafter. It was well worth it.
In your neighbourhood,
In your neigh-bour-hood,
Yes, these are the people in your neighbourhood,
They’re the people that you meet,
When you’re walking down the street,
They’re the people that you meet…each…day!
This image doesn't do justice to the full-size interactive key. At best I can only identify a couple of dozen by name and I practically used to live on that street.
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Sesame Street Fighter
The Kids Aren't Alright
Heeere's Cookie Monster!
May The Trek Be With You
The Star Trek reboot may be on the pop culture horizon, but today is Star Wars Day (May the 4th be with you) and so The Ampersand interrupted Star Trek Week to revisit a cultural lesson on the yin/yang nature of the galaxy's most lucrative beloved sci-fi franchises.Star Trek and Star Wars are like matter and antimatter: They cannot truly exist without each other (for both are necessary to keep the geekosphere supplied with oxygen in the form of new material), yet both cannot occupy the same place at the same time. An ascendant Star Trek precludes a strong Star Wars and vice versa, as both vying simultaneously for sci-fi fans’ attention would prove too nerdsplosive for the mainstream media to handle.Read the full explanation at The Ampersand and see which fan favourite is currently transcendent.
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Star Trek: The Remixed Generation
Star Trek: Smells Like Certain Death
The People vs George Lucas
Canadian History: The Video Game
If Canadian history looked like this, I think I could get into it. Can Mario (Sir John A. McDonald) crush King "Louis Riel" and his rebellion? I want to play!"Through gaming, we intend to challenge students to see if they can be as successful as Sir John A. Macdonald in creating a new country," wrote Thomas S. Axworthy, chair of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queen's University in the National Post.
Of course it would probably be more like a dull(er) version of Railroad Tycoon. But I love Steve Murray's graphic, so I suppose that will suffice.
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What Would Pac-Man Eat?
Invaders! Possibly From Space!
Che's Big Adventure
Che's Big Adventure
National Post illustrator Steve Murray sums up the 4 hour and 15 minute run time of Che thusly:
Now I feel like going and reading a Babar book, for some reason. You can see more of Steve's work at Extremely Bad Advice and Posties and Stevetastic.
(Link via, indirectly, Boy Reporter)
Now I feel like going and reading a Babar book, for some reason. You can see more of Steve's work at Extremely Bad Advice and Posties and Stevetastic.(Link via, indirectly, Boy Reporter)
The Kids Aren't Alright
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame street? No? What do you mean it isn't for kids?The recent DVD release of Sesame Street: Old School, Volumes 1 and 2, which encompasses the years 1969-79, came with a warning: “These early Sesame Street episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.”
Are they kidding? These two volumes encompass the beginnings of the classic kids show, which intersect almost perfectly with my childhood. My generation played with lawn darts and had full-wheel walkers that could fly down stairs like nobody's business, but Sesame Street was a source of all that was pure and good.
Or not, it seems. The ravenous, googly-eyed, sugar-binging Cookie Monster used to throw back boxes and boxes of the sugary treats. Om nom nom nom. Now the cookies are considered a "sometimes snack" and he's just as happy with carrots and other veggies. Stupid, overweight children.
And everyone can now see Snuffleupagus too, not just Big Bird. Seems that they didn't want kids thinking adults wouldn't believe them if they told them something, which is understandable, but it still takes a way a bit of the magic. Whatever happened to imaginary friends?
Even Oscar, the cranky, garbage-dwellig Grouch, is too much for our kinder, gentler, child-rearing ways. Apparently he was a touch too acidic way, way back in the 1970s and wouldn't pass muster today. “We might not be able to create a character like Oscar now,” Carol-Lynn Parente, the executive producer of Sesame Street, told The New York Times.
Amusingly, it's likely people my age running the show these days, the ones brought up watching what is now deemed inappropriate for kids. A classic case of "Do as I say, not as I do." I suppose all parents do that.
Of course I'm hardly the first to bemoan the changes and wonder where they are leading to. Below is graphic artist Steve Murray's take on the subject. Click on the image for a larger version.
Are You Ready For Some Football?
I finally get football. I don’t mean I understand how the game is played – I don’t – or its appeal, but I think I know have some insight into the mindset of the fans thanks to Steve Murray’s comic strip, excerpted above.Murray, an illustrator for the National Post, is drawing his impressions of the week-long hoopla leading up to the Grey cup – the championship game for the Canadian Football League – taking place in Toronto this week. The CFL is our version of the NFL, and there is some difference in the game. What that is, exactly, is lost on me.
Anyway, you can comics one, two and three here.
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