Futurama

Ryan Quincy Talks About Transforming From Reluctant Voiceover Actor to Creator of the New IFC Show Out There

Emmy-winning animator Ryan Quincy has always dreamed of having his own show. During the decade and a half he spent working his way up to animation director for South Park, he spent his hiatuses creating a world entirely his own, inhabited by hairy but harmless creatures just trying to sort out the d ... More >>

Stan Lee's Comikaze Expo 2012: Is It L.A.'s Comic-Con? Not Yet, But...

See also: *Elvira and Peaches Christ Celebrate Independent Horror Movies *Stan Lee Has His Own Convention Now: Stan Lee's Comikaze *Comikaze Expo 2011: First-Time Convention Brings Big Names, Big Crowd Over the weekend, Stan Lee's Comikaze Expo took over Los Angeles Convention Center's South Hall a ... More >>

Wreck-It Ralph Influenced Not Only by Video Games But Harajuku, Gaudi and the San Diego Chargers

Wreck-It Ralph won't be in theaters until November, but the buzz for Disney's forthcoming animated film has already begun. Directed by Rich Moore (The Simpsons, Futurama), the movie stars John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer and Jane Lynch as video game characters whose lives are more comp ... More >>

Matt Groening Pulls Plug on 'Life in Hell,' Comic That Helped Inspire The Simpsons

Matt Groening pulled the plug on the iconic comic strip, "Life in Hell," that helped give birth to The Simpsons on Fox. USA Today reports that the last of the syndicated comics was published June 15, but that reruns will be provided through July 13. The characters Binky and Sheba gave life to the " ... More >>

Jimmy Wong Has a New YouTube Cooking Show (for Nerds)

Jimmy Wong continues to perfect the art of being more awesome than the rest of us. The 24-year-old multi-instrumentalist, actor, goofball and YouTube sensation launched a new YouTube channel in December where he and his hyper-adorable co-host, Ashley Adams, show you how to re-create the food and dri ... More >>

Adult Swim Takes Over Gallery 1988, From The Venture Bros. to Aqua Teen Hunger Force

See more photos in "The Best Art Inspired by Adult Swim." Gallery 1988 has hosted plenty of group shows that explore the influence of pop culture. From video games to cult films, Garbage Pail Kids to Watership Down, artists have come together at the Melrose Ave. space with a mission to transforms w ... More >>

Napoleon Dynamite Animated Series Panel at the Paley Center: Does the Show Make Fun of Ugly, Weird People?

In 2004 when Napoleon Dynamite -- a low-budget indie film about the strange and awkward characters in a small Idaho town -- took mainstream America by storm, were we laughing at Napoleon, or with him? It's an interesting question to ponder as a viewer, but one even more fun to pose to Jerusha and Ja ... More >>

Extreme Futurist Festival: TED Conference for the Counterculture

Liz OhanesianMichael Anissimov and Rachel Haywire of Extreme Futurist Festival​Dr. Kim Solez is on a mission. The renal pathologist and University of Alberta professor is currently working to make the lectures from his course "Technology and the Future of Medicine" available to the general pub ... More >>

Dragon*Con vs. San Diego Comic-Con: Which Convention Should You Attend?

Shannon CottrellSan Diego Comic-Con 2011​For the past three years that I've been covering conventions for LA Weekly, people have been telling me to go to Atlanta for Dragon*Con. I've heard it from commenters, friends and professional contacts. There are many who believe that Dragon*Con is the ... More >>

San Diego Comic-Con Announces Saturday, July 23 Schedule: Steampunk, Adventure Time, The Last Airbender, Robert Kirkman and More

Shannon CottrellSteampunk at San Diego Comic-Con 2010​More in "San Diego Comic-Con Announces Thursday July 21 Schedule: Bruce Campbell, Yoshiki, Stan Lee, Mike Judge and More." and "San Diego Comic-Con Announces Friday, July 22 Schedule: Doc Hammer, Jackson Publick, Chris Elliott, Wil Wheaton, ... More >>

Delivery Boys

SpongeBob and Stimpy: Q&A with Voice Actors Billy West and Tom Kenny

Tom Kenny (left) and Billy West​ You know them, but you don't know them: Live Talks Los Angeles, who brought us Tina Fey and Steve Martin for a chat recently, present An Evening of 1,000 Voices With Billy West and Tom Kenny. West is best known as the voice of Philip J. Fry on Futurama and Stim ... More >>

First Successful Hand Transplant in Western U.S. is Achieved at UCLA -- after the Fingerprints got a Background Check

UCLA Health System/ Ann Johansson PhotographyFuturamaaaa!​Surgeons at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center performed a 14-and-a-half hour hand transplant this weekend.The hand traveled from San Diego to become the first ever hand transplant in the western U.S. The Futurama-esque procedure has decid ... More >>

Chris Elliott on His New Show Eagleheart and the Cult Classic Get a Life

In Eagleheart, which premieres tonight on Adult Swim, Chris Elliott plays Chris Monsanto, a U.S. Marshal whose combination of ineptitude and confidence leads to more disasters than you thought could fit into a twelve-minute episode. If you're familiar with Elliott's work over the years, then this tu ... More >>

Thrilling Adventure Hour Interviews: Ben Acker and Ben Blacker

For more than five years, Thrilling Adventure Hour has been bringing L.A. a dose of "old-time radio." Well, sort of. Created by writers Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, Thrilling Adventure Hour is actually a stage show done in the style of radio. In other words, you're watching actors on stage in front o ... More >>

Picks from San Diego Comic-Con's Saturday Schedule: Futurama, Peter Bagge and Zombies

Check out our picks from Comic-Con's Thursday and Friday schedules. Saturday marks the 36th annual Comic-Con Masquerade, a massive costume contest where contestants will compete in categories like "Most Humorous," "Best Original Design" and "Best Re-creation." If there's anything we learned from ... More >>

Top 5 Misadventures of Futurama's Zapp Brannigan and Kif Kroker

Tonight, Comedy Central will premiere season six of Futurama. It will be the first original season for the network, as season five consisted of direct-to-DVD releases and will consist of back-to-back episodes, "Rebirth" and "In-a-Gadda-Da-Leela." The latter will feature Zapp Brannigan, the loud, inc ... More >>

Top 10 Fictional T.V. Food and Drink

Previously, we gave you our Top 10 Fictional Movie Food and Drink list. Now we're taking on the T.V. version. Not surprisingly, there were a lot of options to choose from and some of you, we're sure, will feel that a few of your favorites are missing (feel free to let us know). So with apologies in ... More >>

Futurama's Aimee Major Steinberger Recreates "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter"

Aimee Major Steinberger is an artist firmly entrenched in L.A.'s fan communities. In addition to her work as assistant director on Futurama, she's a ball-jointed doll aficionado who co-founded the popular forum Den of Angels, an award-winning cosplayer and a fan of kimonos and Lolita who will show h ... More >>

Dreaming of a Day-Glo Xmas

Doug Harvey’s mostly psychedelic shopping list

L.A. People: Phil LaMarr, the Voice

He's Cartoon Network's Samurai Jack, Green Lantern and Futurama's Hermes Conrad

Partying Like It's 1983: Part-Time Punks Announce Post-Punk Fest Featuring A Certain Ratio, Pylon, Savage Republic, Vivian Girls and More

A Certain Ratio's "Shack Up" This just in from the great Part-Time Punks posse: Los Angeles will be the location of the world’s first-ever Post-Punk Festival (or at least the first since 1982 or whenever the last Futurama was held in the UK!). The day-long event will be held in conjoined venues ... More >>

Capitol Films' Crash and Burn

The company's cash crunch is shutting down indie after indie

WGA Strike's Fountain of Youth

How a troubled old guild is being saved by a gutsier, newly radicalized crowd

WGA's Biggest Enemy

A fed up writers’ union hopes to appeal to a sense of fair play. In Hollywood

Matt Groening: Life Is Swell

The possible Nobel laureate on his dreams, his alt-weekly past and, oh yeah, The Simpsons Movie

The Voices in His Head

From guitar slinging to Ren & Stimpy, Billy West has found a blueprint for living

Eolomea; The Silent Star

Radio Provocateur

Phil Hendrie conquers the AM dial one deluded caller at a time. So why can't he get his mug on TV?

Yet More Lists

All Tomorrow’s Parties Today

Matt Groening talks outsider music and party planning with a fellow gearhead

Farting Robots and Shitting Ducks

The first of a new, biweekly column on science from the author of The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace and Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars

Naughty Nick

Animation giant plays anti-union toon

HollyWebland

Dot-coms struggle to create new entertainment form

Vampire Slayers Arise!

Buffy rebellion latest tangle in Fox’s war on fan sites

The Year of The Sopranos

Adding up '99

Spun City

The big documentary, plus Kane redux

Letters

Life in the 31st Century

Matt Groening: Past, present, Futurama