Amidst the perfect storm of fan-con and festival season, Los Angeles-based Neko Productions drops a buzzworthy flood of entertainment business growth updates. Cresting the wave is the studio’s debut, original kid-lit graphic novel series entitled 101 Reasons Why. The broadly humorous tome, created by writer/director/comedian Ofir Lobel (Keshet/Netflix’s BLACKSPACE; Keshet’s TRUST NO ONE and A […]
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Ofir Lobel’s Debut Graphic Novel and Companion Animated Series “101 Reasons Why”
September 19th, 2023 
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INTERVIEW: Shaking-Up The MCU With Animated Series “What If…?”
August 9th, 2021 Jackson Murphy New animated series What If…? explores how the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline would’ve been altered if certain things happened to certain characters. The show premieres this Wednesday August 11th on Disney+ and features voice recordings from many of the live-action superhero stars, including the late Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa. Writer A.C. Bradley and director Bryan […]
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San Diego Comic-Con At Home 2021 Serves-Up Saturday Panels
July 24th, 2021 Jackson Murphy It’s Day Two of San Diego Comic-Con @Home 2021! Animation virtual panels continue to dominate. Here are the Saturday Highlights: Popular voice actor Eric Bauza opened up the HBO Max Looney Tunes Cartoons presentation by doing a Bugs Bunny & Marvin the Martian scene on Zoom! So far there have been 40 “LTC” episodes of […]
Animation Highlights at Comic Con @ Home
July 16th, 2020 Jackson Murphy San Diego Comic-Con is going to look MUCH different this year. Every panel and special presentation from July 23-26 will be done virtually. They’re all online (and FREE to everyone) through the CC website and YouTube links. So what can animation fans look forward to from the comfort of their own homes? Here’s a rundown […]
INTERVIEW: The Supermen Behind the “Reign of the Supermen”
January 17th, 2019 Jackson Murphy Reign of the Supermen is the latest DC Universe animated movie and the follow-up to last year’s “The Death of Superman”. It’s based off the popular 1992-93 comic book storyline. Earlier this week, both films screened in more than 500 theaters in North America through Fathom Events. I recently caught-up with the cast and crew […]
DC Comics and WB Animation Team On “DC Super Hero Girls” Animated Feature
June 9th, 2016 Jerry Beck Look out, Disney Princesses! Warner Bros. Animation is joining the effort to court the young girls demographic that Disney has so successfully won over. Opening the DC Comics vault, the studio has teamed younger versions of Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, Harley Quinn, Bumblebee, Poison Ivy and Katana, banding together to navigate the twists and turns […]
Introducing Beebop & Rocksteady in “TMNT: Out of the Shadows”
June 3rd, 2016 Bill Desowitz Shredder’s mutant henchmen, Beebop (Gary Anthony Williams) & Rocksteady (Stephen Farrelly), finally get the spotlight in the TMNT sequel, Out of the Shadows, directed by Dave Green (Earth to Echo). They made for off-beat transformations into mutant warthog and rhino. “Typically, these transformations are painful, but these two guys enjoy their new bodies,” explained Kevin […]
Interview: DC’s “Scooby-Doo Apocalypse”
May 26th, 2016 Greg Ehrbar The world started to come to an end today—at least in the first issue of the DC Hanna-Barbera Scooby-Doo Apocalypse comic magazine, which just arrived in stores. It’s not the first time Scooby and his pals were given a different twist (far from it), so I spoke to three of the key creatives behind this […]
