"TV cartoons often get away with outrageous situations and dialogue that no live-action show could touch, from Homer's gay-marriage ministry on 'The Simpsons' to the infamous 'South Park' episode ...about--well, take your pick. 'Boondocks' is every bit as political as those animated animal houses, but it hits one particularly hot button: race. The show was created by Aaron McGruder, who has adapted it from his syndicated comic strip of the same name. McGruder, 31, calls himself 'one of America's angriest black men,' and he's long taken aim at people and institutions he believes betray the race." (Newsweek) McGruder's animated show "The Boondocks" is reviewed.
Mandela to the rescue
Know your world extra,
02/2006, Letnik:
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Magazine Article
South African president Nelson Mandela is now a hero in his own comic-book series. The comic books in the Madiba Legacy Series tell how Mandela overcame a racist government in his home country of ...South Africa. The series also tell about how he fought to get black equal rights.
To Catch a Thief Wolk, Douglas
Time (Chicago, Ill.),
07/2012, Letnik:
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Magazine Article
Wolk features the movie Catwoman starred by Anne Hathaway. She plays jewel thief Selina Kyle -- nobody ever calls her Catwoman onscreen, although her night-vision goggles just happen to flip up to ...form cat-ear shapes. The Nolan-Hathaway version of the character is a world-class cat burglar, a daughter of poverty exacting her own kind of justice from the grotesquely wealthy, and Hathaway gives her a muted, parched voice and a sangfroid honed on the streets.
My choice for president Cart, Michael
The Booklist,
03/2012, Letnik:
108, Številka:
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Magazine Article, Trade Publication Article
For me, though, the great glory of the strip is its dialogue, what someone has called "swampspeak." All of the characters talk in a wonderful, vaguely illiterate regional dialect filled with savory ...non sequiturs, outrageous puns, and nonsense words and phrases. There is space for only one example: Albert and Pogo are talking about the Easter Bunny. Albert: "It's a cry and shame . . . OF Easter Bunny is nowhere round.
