Author: Rick Marshall

  • Getting Smurfy again in ’08

    Even a full-scale bombing can’t keep a good Smurf down. Last seen in <a href=” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MAYrF1PDks controversial UNICEF ad, the blue-skinned, three-apples-high Smurfs appear to have survived their encounter with the horrors of war and are making a comeback for their 50th anniversary. 2008 looks to be a blue-ribbon year for the inhabitants of Smurf…

  • Fight Bribery With… Comics?

    China’s Communist ruling party plans to start off the Lunar New Year holiday by distributing comics depicting graft and various other forms of corruption in an effort to reduce crime in one of the nation’s most troubled provinces.  According to the Associated Press: "The pocket-size comic book, which includes caricatures depicting common forms of graft…