Movie adaptations of books are not good because they follow every word of the text. On the contrary, the greatest adaptations are more like translations of their source material. They find inspired ...

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When it comes to the land of comic books, it’s a master class on the art of monsters whenever Mike Ploog enters the conversation. The legendary comic artist was instrumental in helping develop some of ...

William Steig’s original 1990 picture book Shrek! has a few elements that Shrek fans will remember from the 2001 animated movie it inspired. There’s a big, green, lumbering protagonist with a ...

"Shrek" is actually based on a children's book from 1990. More than a decade before the animated movie was released in theaters, author William Steig wrote the children's book, "Shrek!" The book had ...