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...swells with indistinguishable manga and high-end hardbacks, discerning children and the adults who care for them may wonder what happened to all the good kids comics. Though buried a bit, they can still be found. Two recent releases, the "Little Lulu" reprints series from Dark Horse comics, and Nickelodeon Magazine's all-comics special, present two strong options. Comparing the two makes for some interesting lessons in what endures and what changes in the world of kid's comics...
Different media have different demands too. The kid market is big business on TV, with full-time factories like Nickelodeon, ABC Family and the Disney Channel churning out moppet entertainment. Nickelodeon has 14 scouts traveling the country trying to find the next young stars. But the show-biz sass that works on sitcoms may look grotesque on the big screen. Those reflexes anticipate what a director wants, when maybe what he wants is to be surprised. "You don't want some actor child who does everything perfectly and doesn't have a childlike aura," says Campbell Scott, who directed...
...NICKELODEON + HOLIDAY INN Nick@Nite, anyone? The co-branded Nickelodeon Family Suites, set to open in May, will offer a water park, arcade and other family-friendly attractions...
...headlines as much for who he was as for who he is. Freston, the new co-president of media giant Viacom, had been chairman and CEO of MTV Networks, whose MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central channels make it the lifeline to the youth market. One of Freston's missions from Viacom boss Sumner Redstone is to freshen the image and, more important, goose the profits of Paramount Pictures, the most geriatric of the Hollywood studios. So when the company's new Mr. Big showed up at the iconic indie-film festival, media types saw it as a signal of revolutionary...
...Films has been hot of late, co-releasing with Fox Searchlight Pictures cult fave Napoleon Dynamite (made for a minuscule $400,000 and earning 100 times that at the domestic box office) and backing a mainstream hit in Coach Carter ($63 million gross). MTV Films' kid sister, Nickelodeon Films, had an $85 million hit with The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. Comedy Central is another cool brand, though its Team America: World Police belly-flopped last year. Paramount has already made some youth-oriented hits. It has a long-term deal with Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels, whose Mean Girls earned...