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Carmen Sandiego

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Comic-Con 2012 Cosplay That Really Impressed Us

by Jill Pantozzi | 3:35 pm, July 16th, 2012

The sheer amount of costuming going on at Comic-Con is mind-boggling. Trying to come up with a “best of” list would be foolish (especially considering we weren’t there to see them with our own eyes), not to mention insane, but we have come across several online that really impressed us. So here’s our first roundup of Comic-Con cosplay pictures for your fan-gazing perusal.

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Essay

Who In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? CEO, Intellectual, & America’s Most Positive Latina Role Model

by Frances Martel | 11:48 am, February 28th, 2012

“We want to motivate them to learn about the world,” game show host Greg Lee once told the Associated Press, sometime in the past century (1992) Lee had just taken the helm at a children’s education show entitled Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, whose plot demanded the children observe the command of their boss at Interpol, The Chief (Lynne Thigpen), to capture the elusive monument thief. The premise of the show, based on a video game, at once was to maintain the audience of older children as they graduated from Sesame Street and morning shows meant for younger folk. No one in my generation doubts that it did just that. But what the creators of the Carmen Sandiego video game and program franchise could have never anticipated was the cultural impact Sandiego had on one particular demographic following the canon— Latin American girls.

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Almost Totally Excellent

Jennifer Lopez To Produce a Carmen Sandiego Movie

by Jamie Frevele | 12:30 pm, November 4th, 2011

Okay, before we begin to instantly worry about the very mention of Jennifer Lopez being involved with something as beloved as Carmen Sandiego, let’s hear her out. Walden Media has acquired the rights to Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego? and has teamed up with Lopez to develop a live-action, full-length feature film about the globe-trotting thief. Lopez, who is attached to produce (not star), hopes to turn this into a family-friendly caper reminiscent of the National Treasure movies and The Thomas Crown Affair. Wait, what? That … might be pretty awesome, actually!

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Pre-Victorian Silhouette Portraits of Pop Culture Characters

by Susana Polo | 10:14 am, June 1st, 2011

The strong silhouette is a very important aspect of character design, not just in comics, animation, and film where I’m guessing you could identify most of your favorite characters simply by their profile, but also in videogames, where players need to be able to discern, at a glance, whether that approaching enemy is Horde or Alliance, Spy or Scout, Witch or Tank.

We think that’s why we’re so fascinated with the pop-culture papercut portraits of Olly Moss, especially the ones of live action characters played by humans. These characters have considerably less character design in their making than their drawn and animated counterparts, and yet, as subtle as they are, they are still completely recognizable.

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