The newspaper connection here is small but significant (wait til the end to discover!), but that's enough justification we nee to do this viewer request: It's The Adventures of Mark Twain, Will Vinton's insane tour de force homage to the writings of Mark Twain which the Internet loves for that one bit (You know the bit.)

The newspaper connection here is small but significant (wait til the end to discover!), but that's enough justification we nee to do this viewer request: It's The Adventures of Mark Twain, Will Vinton's insane tour de force homage to the writings of Mark Twain which the Internet loves for that one bit (You know the bit.)

In the early 80s, there was a very popular Broadway musical adaptation of the old comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, everyone's favorite serial about an orphan and her war profiteering sugar daddy. Then they turned that popular musical into a not so popular (but weirdly enduring) film. Join us for our first of two episodes about the 1982 Annie movie with Tim Curry, Bernedette Peters, and Carol Burnett.

In the early 80s, there was a very popular Broadway musical adaptation of the old comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, everyone's favorite serial about an orphan and her war profiteering sugar daddy. Then they turned that popular musical into a not so popular (but weirdly enduring) film. Join us for our first of two episodes about the 1982 Annie movie with Tim Curry, Bernedette Peters, and Carol Burnett.

It's not just comics that get their own TV adaptations. Sometimes sit coms become cartoons because... reasons? Mike Vago of Why Isn't This a Movie, author and Onion AV Club contributor, joins us this week to look at some of the misbegotten attempts to bring sit coms to the... well, to the same screen really! Learn about the Duke boys on a race around the world, I Dream of Jeanie with her new bumbling genie sidekick, and the horror of Rick Springfield and Miss Tickle!

Garfield was so popular, is it any wonder that he wasn't just adapted into cartoons but into other mediums as well?  There are Garfield books, Garfield movies, Garfield... coloring books!? In this episode, we look at two (2) classic Garfield coloring books. Kids love to color!

Little Nemo in Slumberland is a comic from the way, way, way back times  of the old days, but in 1989 they tried to adapt it into this anime  movie. They really, really wanted to do something great. There's so much  love in this thing and... well, it's A THING. Join us for our second episode deep dive into this Nemo thing!

Little Nemo in Slumberland is a comic from the way, way, way back times of the old days, but in 1989 they tried to adapt it into this anime movie. They really, really wanted to do something great. There's so much love in this thing and... well, it's A THING. 

Free for All is an oddity of a strip. Created by Brett Merhar in the waning days of the newspaper comic strip monoculture ie the late 90s, it was syndicated for but a single year... but Merhar still managed to convince Showtime into greenlighting a series. It wasn't good.  Join us for a mega-stuffed 2 HOUR episode where we talk all about the bizarre anomaly that was Free for All, a weird webcomic-eque Bloom County clone with a ferret, and also stick around for some SURPRISING backstage news about the creator!