Yes, you have things like Dilbert that try to eek out enough jokes to fill in half an hour, but then you have shows that capture and sometimes exceed their newspaper counterparts. Garfield brings more personality than its tired counterpart, and Dennis the Menace creates a backdrop that could never fit in a single panel (albeit for kids only). So what strips could be fully animated, even if they were microseries like 5-15 minutes each if half an hour was too long?
Dilbert was good but seems like a hodgepodge of shorts strung together with an overarching plot. It woulda been better off being like DiGiCharat for computer techs.
anyway, has anyone ever seen Cat Soup? I imagine Nonsequitor would transfer well after seeing that.
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Anonymous2006-03-12 11:51
Megatokyo (even though it isn't newspaper) could be made into the next best soap opera.
I mean, its like all the classic soap operas of the 70's and 80's blended together. They could capture all of the middle class, white, female, homemaker demographic.
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Anonymous2006-03-12 12:54
I would call it Sad Girl in Snow.
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Anonymous2006-03-12 12:55
Anyone remember comic strip cereal? The commercial briefly animated various strips such as Haggar. I thought they could have made a series off of that commercial.
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Anonymous2006-03-14 1:36
Cathy had a commercial for some wholesale clothing store. I have no idea why I remember this, but it made me realize how fucking bad an actual Cathy cartoon would be.
"WAHHHH WAAHHHH I'M TOO FAT NO ONE APPRECIATES MY HARD WORK WITTY SOCIAL COMMENTARY BLAHHH..."
For 30 minutes. My brain hemorrhages at the thought of it.
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Anonymous2006-03-14 9:43
>>11
There was a Cathy cartoon produced in 1987 -http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352235/
Here's an article about comic strips that have been animated: http://www.dvdtoons.com/features/45
Animated strips mentioned include: Peanuts, Garfield, Heathcliff, Denis the Menace, Hagar the Horrible, Beetle Bailey, Ziggy, For Better or Worse, and Dilbert.