This past weekend was the arguably biggest event on the geek calendar, San Diego Comic Con. It is an explosion of headlines, news clips, and video spots that most geeks salivate over. However, I was not one of them. That’s right, I spent the biggest geek weekend of the year creating Sesame Street characters out…
From Sesame Street in the Seventies, “S is for Superman”! Stop whatever you’re signed up for and see this stupendous story!
He’s “That Guy” – the funny one! Ron Funches is making a big name for himself, taking his unique style of comedy to NBC’s UNDATEABLE and @MIDNIGHT on Comedy Central. So what makes HIM laugh? We find out, then we explore the CSI reality show that started it all. MEDICAL DETECTIVES is headed back to…
This is a Muppet News Flash: Puppeteer Jerry Nelson, the man behind Sesame Street muppet Count von Count, died yesterday at age 78. Nelson, a cast member of the show for over 40 years, also brought to life the characters Herry Monster, Fat Blue, Sherlock Hemlock and the Amazing Mumford. Nelson’s first job with the…
It’s not really Monday anymore, but this is way too good to let wait. Yes, it’s short… it’s still in previews. You’ll see the full thing in the fall, but you won’t see it on Broadway– only on Sesame Street as it starts its 42nd season. I can’t wait!
In the late 1960s, Jim Henson and cartoonist Johnny Hart teamed up to produce a pilot for a TV series based on Hartâs and Brant Parker comic strip The Wizard of Id. According to the Henson Company blog, the response was pretty positive, but by the time ABC made the decision to move on it…
As found over at People @ Parks… After years of badgering wandering kids on Sesame Street, Big Bird and Snuffy had enough. Thanks to a connection they had through Jim Henson’s workshop (trust us, it’s like six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon) they got a hold of a phantom zone projector. With the projector…
First, we have Simone and Ajax as detectives trying to find… the Maltese Duck: and then we have Bert and Ernie (or some bizarre clay figures that sorta look and sound like them) as detectives trying to find… the Maltese Duck! Coincidence, you say? Hah! Then how do you explain that the person hiring Bert…
On this day in 1969, the National Educational Television network premiered a show from the Children’s Television Workshop, with songs, animation, Bob McGrath, Loretta Long, Caroll Spinney, Carol Burnett, and Muppets. Forty years later, Sesame Street has become the longest running American children’s program, having helped educate generations of children worldwide. And Bob McGrath, Loretta…
I beg of you, gentle ComicMix readers… take a journey with me back in time. Step one? Dust off a pair of “wide leg” jeans. Don your favorite pair of Airwalk low-tops. Grow your hair out a little, and put a Pearl Jam Compact Disk into your brand new Diskman. Step Two? Power up your…
I’m not exactly sure what to make of this video mash-up of the pinball "counting song" from the children’s television series Sesame Street and clips from both old and new versions of the Iron Man cartoons — all I know is that it’s catchy. I also know that it will now be stuck…
On this day in 1969, the National Educational Television network premiered a show from the Children’s Television Workshop, with songs, animation, Carol Burnett, and Muppets. Thirty-eight years later, Sesame Street has become the longest running American children’s program, having helped educate generations of children worldwide. The effect of the show is so powerful and widespread,…
