Die neue Besitzerin des Baseballteams "Cleveland Indians" will die Mannschaft endlich auflösen und engagiert die abgetakelsten Spieler, um einen sicheren letzten Platz in der Liga zu erreichen. Tatsächlich eilt der bunte, chaotische Haufen von Niederlage zu Niederlage. Fänger Jake sieht seine letzte Chance, etwas aus seinem Leben zu machen und versucht gleichzeitig seine Ex-Freundin Lynn zurückzugewinnen. Als dem neuen Pitcher Ricky eine Brille verpasst wird, erringen die Indians trotz widriger Umstände Sieg um Sieg und können vielleicht doch noch den Verkauf der Indians durch den Sieg der Meisterschaft abwenden...
Es ist ein schicksalhafter Tag im Leben von Charlie Brown, als das kleine rothaarige Mädchen durch die Klassentür schreitet und sein Herz höher schlagen lässt. Sofort ist es um den Jungen geschehen! Dabei hat sich sein Leben doch bislang als eine Aneinanderreihung von Pannen dargestellt, dabei ist Charlie doch so unsicher, woran auch die langjährige Konkurrentin Lucy nicht unschuldig ist – aber von seinen Gefühlen beschwingt beschließt der Pechvogel, das Lager zu wechseln und endlich auf die Seite der Gewinner zu treten. Nun kann ihn nichts mehr stoppen, erst recht nicht mit einem so treuen Gefährten wie Snoopy an seiner Seite. Der Beagle hat derweil ganz andere Probleme, da er seine Fähigkeiten als Fliegerass unter Beweis stellen muss, um in seiner Fantasie die Verfolgung seines erklärten Erzfeindes aufzunehmen, die Verfolgung des Roten Barons. Und außerdem gilt es, die schöne Pudel-Fliegerin Fifi zu erobern...
When a group of generals from the Pentagon notify General Halftrack that they want to inspect a model of the modern soldier, Beetle Bailey probably wasn't what they had in mind.
The historical saga of American superheroes. Born in the period between the Great Depression and the World War II to combat the hobgoblins of the modern world, these mutant human beings with superhuman powers colonized the funny papers, radio dramas, television and films, to become a truly national industry in the United States: they gave expression to the fears and obsessions of the twentieth century and bolstered American ideals.
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
An animated special based on the comic strip Cathy by Cathy Guisewite.
In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!
Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period. One day his editor makes him meet a blond nice girl. Immediately Giulio fall in love and starts to draw his impossible love story into a new comic book. The 2nd is 'Quello dal basco rosso' (the one with the red beret). Sandro, a mature man, meets one of his former girlfriend and her daughter Daniela. Daniela couldn't have sex with her boyfriend because of a childhood remembrance. In fact she always remember her mother having sex with a man wearing a red beret. She discovers that man is Sandro, makes love with him and soon recovers from her obsession.
Opus the Penguin struggles to achieve his seemingly impossible dream to be able to fly.
Americans are preoccupied with the news, but need an escape from many of the events reported in the news. These escapes in the past have included dime store novels. The most accessible of these escapes is what are known as the funny papers, the set of serialized comic strips that are included within many newspapers. They appeal to all socio-economic classes, and all ages. Some of the earliest known from the late 19th century include the Yellow Kid, Little Nemo, Happy Hooligan, the Katzenjammer Kids, Mutt & Jeff, and Bringing Up Father. Many cartoonists are seen in action. Some originated their characters, while others have taken over following the passing of the originator. The joy of many comic strips are the absurd and the fantastical, which are limited only by the imagination of the cartoonist. Others are grounded in reality, which add to their poignancy within the public mindset.
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.
Stage-and-night club star Jeannie Laird buys her first home, and everyone who is anyone comes to her first garden party only to be blinded by smoke from next door. Jeannie charges next door to bawl out her new neighbor and meets comic-strip artist Bill Carter. Bill has devoted himself to his strip, and raising his ten-year-old son Joe since the death of his wife. Joe bases his strip on the everyday happenings of he and his son and is proud of keeping it scrupulously honest. When Jeannie and Bill fall in love, young Joe is hurt, especially when Bill starts using a lot of the father-son time to be with Jeannie. Bill cancels a father-son trip to Canada, and Joe decides to write a letter to Bill's syndicate pointing out that the current plot line of the script being set in Canada isn't honest, since they didn't go.
20 years after Calvin and Hobbes stopped appearing in daily newspapers, filmmaker Joel Allen Schroeder has set out to explore the reasons behind the comic strip's loyal and devoted following.
A detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find her missing husband, a master of disguises, and important industry executive.
Garry Trudeau's classic characters (Mike Doonesbury, Zonker, etc.) examine how their lifestyles, priorities, and concerns have changed since the end of their idealistic college days in the 1960s. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Short documenting the importance of comic books to children's imaginative development, in spite of adult fears that they might be a negative influence.
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
An unsold TV pilot based on the classic comic strip, shot by Jim Henson with puppets built by Don Sahlin.
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
The history of Bruguera, the most important comic publisher in Spain between the 1940s and the 1980s. How the characters created by great writers and pencilers became Spanish archetypes and how their strips persist nowadays as a portrait of Spain and its people. The daily life of the creators and the founding family, the Brugueras. The world in which hundreds of vivid colorful paper beings lived and still live, in the memory of millions, in the smile of everyone.