Heart of the City is getting a cartoon.https://www.animationmagazine.net/2022/07/heart-of-the-city-comic-gets-animated-with-slap-happy-andrews-mcmeel/
>>150991393>New Heart is getting a cartoon>not Classic HeartI'm sure someone will like it for its one season.
>>150991651Is New Heart really that bad?
>>150991651>Rogue One was goodHeart is right to question her life, and the correct choice is to go back to not caring about Star Wars.
>>150991393>this gets a cartoon but not Mysterious Mr. Enter's Growing Aroundwhen you feel like the world is unfair just look at that shit to confirm it.
>>150991801It's inoffensive, but such a shift from everything the original did, that it really should have been its own thing, not a continuation of the world Tatulli made.
this is the newspaper comic most in need of a writing team so I guess I am for this
>>150991393Is it good?
>>150991393>announced July 18, 2022>no further word on it in over 3 yearsI'm not saying it's dead, but it's looking pretty fucking dead.
>>150993090What's the significance of posting this particular strip?
>>150993649Probably trying to keep this thread alive while it's deader than the cartoon.
>>150991393This is the work Slap Happy Cartoons has done in the past. What do we think?
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>>150991393>a shitty Tumblr slop comic gets a tv showWatch it be even more beanmouthish and look cheap as fuck and visually garbage like Deadendia. It’s funny cause these showrunners bitch and whine when their Tumblr comic based shows get cancelled cause it’s "disrespectful" to them or something when the fact that the network greenlit their garbage in the first place is "disrespectful" cause they’ve only greenlit it cause beanmouth shit is cheap slop easy to produce, they basically know their arts shit but they’re too retarded to realize that.
>>150991393Classic Heart had a hotter mom, but sure, let's see where this goes.
>>150991854That guy is loser anyways.
>>150993984Classic Heart has a hotter ... everything, and Tatulli could at least draw feet.
Why didn't they pick something at least mildly interesting like Wallace the Brave?
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>>150991801>>150992426If you've ever been in the Sunday Funnies threads on Sunday, you'd know that the comic is constantly panned for being shit. Bad writing, bad art, sometimes it gets REALLY lazy by making the Sunday comic a crossword puzzle or a maze. The worst offense is how much of an ass pull it is compared to the original Heart of the City that Mark Tattuli created.
>>150994644What makes it an ass-pull?
>>150991393I suggest you don't get hopes up for an upcoming show until there are several promotional art or animation sample. You'll risk looking forward to a show that's dead in production and it hurts.
>>150991801No, /co/ overhates it quite a bit. But it goes from being one of the better Sunday strips to mediocre drivel, which is a harder fall than say, Nancy. It barely even resembles the original so I think if it were its own thing /co/ wouldn't bat an eye.
Someone post the Sunday strip where she strips naked in front of her mom (original Tatulli Heart, not the new one).
>>150991801I liked the first Bob Newhart show better overall but it was funny
>>150993984It's just drawn so much more lively.
>>150997174That's an example of lame joke , but here's an example it can be funny. But the majority of steenz strips are very underwhelming or attempts at new age slice of life pieces. So I'm not optimistic it will be very good
>>150991393Who?
>>150991393>2022 anon... >>150991801I tried to like the switch over, but as someone who read the original version and could tell Mar was getting tired near the end, I liked the age up and stuff he did, but I just couldn't get into the Nu Heart. I can see why Schulz and his family didn't want Peanuts to continue without him.
>>150996458For obvious reasons, that can't be posted.
>>150993825Fin looks like a one-off FoP character.
>>150995227Right, I forgot when Tatulli aged up the characters in preperation for Steenz's takeover (?).
>>150997624He aged them up because he thought keeping them young was getting old
Because I can't find any other excuse to post this, here's Mark Tatulli's first syndicated strip "Bent Halos"https://archive.org/details/bent-halos
>>150997798wew lad
>>150991651>>150991393OP looks nothing like the comic strip
>>150998641Because OP's pic is the 2020 reboot of the comic drawn by a different artist.
>>150991801Lol no
>>150997624No he aged them up years before that in 2018. He got rid of Heart's Tutu a few years earlier then he added a skirt for the start of middle school era. There was also an increase of fantasy sequences.
>>150991393Are you FUCKING shitting me?! Off all the comic strips that could be adapted into something at least entertaining, they took the worst one!?>>150991801It's ungodly boring and low effort, even by newspaper strip standards. There's weekly Sunday strip threads here and it's usually a fun time, but you can see how Heart tends to be a buzzkill there more often than not. It's a newspaper tar pit.
>>150997312You could honestly see Tatulli could do it anymore.He lost the Heart for it.And those ****** idiotos over at Gcomics banned the archive if you don't fork over monies!!!!
>>151003021In NuHeart, she's afraid he will give her a Valentine's Day card
>>151002798I will let you live this time, Carlos, because you're sadly correct.
>>151004406Shame Heart grew out of her crush on him, even worse if the new writer decided not to do the same for Dean towards Heart.
>>150997325The newer versions of The Producers missed the point by not having the drugged-out hippie playing Adolf.
'Heart of the City' was one of my favorite strips. It began in that period of time where strips were allowed to push boundaries.
>>151008840Now it's all sanitized "slice of life", with an art style that fits a low quality web comic more than comic strip.
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Does anybody have those Halloween strips?
>>150991393I just found out about this today can someone explain what happened and how it dropped in quality? Did the creator sell it to someone?
>>151009661Mark tatulli decided to retire from heart of city, the syndication publisher found a new cartoonist for the title who goes by steenz. This was in 2020, they told fans that it will be a new comic with a new style, but the same name. Cause syndication purposes. Mark still creates lio which is a newspaper comic, and it is good.
>>151009661In summary:>Original creator, Mark Tatulli, created Heart of the City for 22 years>Wanted to quit the strip and focus on his other, more successful comic, Lio and other kidlit projects>Andrews McMeel, the publisher of the comic, owns the rights to Heart of the City>Made the decision to either put the comic in reruns or get a new artist to take over>They decided it was best to get a new artist to take over Heart>Andrews McMeel chose Christina "Steenz" Stewart to take over>Gave her practically free reign to reboot the strip into her vision>Has been going on for 5 years nowWhat's even sad is that Steenz's version of Heart has more book collections than Tatulli's version. He only had one book collection made, meaning more than 20 years of his work is lost media.
>>151009853There are strips in the book that aren't even on the GoComics website. It hate it when art is treated like something so disposable.
>>151009846>>151009853I don't understand why they didn't just make a whole new comic at that point if there's nothing that ties it to the original besides names
>>151010350Like >>151009853 said the publisher had the option to either use re-runs or have a new creator use the title. Which, if I'm remembering correctly, boils down to contracts the publisher made for syndication in each distributor to run the title for the length agreed upon, and I'm assuming the publisher found it more profitable to opt out of paying mark for reruns and instead launched the title( the rights of which they own) under a new cartoonist. Basically it all comes down to money, but another huge factor in regard to newspaper comics, is space. There are not spots open and any that would are long reserved, so don't create a new comic but use an existing IP and the rebrand it, since they own it. And they also own basically all of them. But I could be wrong about this.
>>151010350>be Andrews McMeel>Heart of the City is a successful comic running in syndication in x number of newspapers>the original creator wants to stop>do you:>retire the strip and have to sell a new comic papers they might not even want, which you'll probably have to spend on marketing and publicity to convince them to pick up>keep the strip going under the same name and keep all your syndication contracts in place, even if it is for all intents and purposes a completely new comicThey chose the latter option and for a business POV it's understandable why, even if from an artistic POV it's kinda shitty.
>>151010553>And they also own basically all of them. But I could be wrong about this.Heart of the City came out at a time when the syndicate would own your comic, but in recent years that's been overturned to where the artists now own their comic and characters, they just distribute it and manage licensing. Ironically, despite how much /co/ likes to pit them against each other, it was Bill Watterson, Jim Davis, and Charles Schulz that fought for those rights for the newspaper artists.
>>151010553>>151010569Same thing is happening to Nancy btw
>>151010103I can't believe it's Garfield of all things that's the comic that gets the most faithful book collections.
>>151010664And who "manages" the ip, distribution, and syndication of those? The same as heart. Andrews mcmeel syndication.>>151010737 they also own gocomics.Heres a list of others they syndicated, but definitely don't own or control the market Cathy Classics Mike du Jour Adam@Home Alley Oop The Argyle Sweater Arlo and Janis Baby Blues Baldo Betty Big Nate Biographic The Born Loser Breaking Cat News Brevity Brevity - strip The Buckets Calvin and Hobbes Close to Home Color Me Posh Cornered Crabgrass Crankshaft Cul de Sac Dark Side of the Horse DeFlocked Doonesbury Drabble The Duplex F Minus The Flying McCoys For Better or For Worse FoxTrot Frank and Ernest Frazz Fred Basset The Fusco Brothers Garfield Get Fuzzy Ginger Meggs Graffiti Grand Avenue The Grizzwells Heart of the City Herman In the Bleachers JumpStart KidSpot KidTown La Cucaracha Lio The Lockhorns The Lockhorns en Español Lola Loose Parts Loose Parts Strip Luann Magia en un Minuto Magic Eye Magic in a Minute Marmaduke Moderately Confused Monty Mother Goose and Grimm Mutt & Jeff Nancy Non Sequitur Non Sequitur Panel Off the Mark Over the Hedge Overboard Peanuts Pearls Before Swine Phoebe and Her Unicorn Pickles Pooch Cafe Prickly City Reality Check Red and Rover Rip Haywire Ripley's Believe It or Not Rose is Rose Sherman's Lagoon Shortcuts Shortcuts Classic Stone Soup International Sundays Tank McNamara Thatababy Tom the Dancing Bug Uncle Art's Funland Wallace the Brave World of Wonder WuMo Ziggy
>>151010877Crazy how many heavy hitting comic strips they have under them, while King Features only focuses on promoting Popeye and Flash Gordon. Do you have a list off all comics under King Features?Though I did find out Andrews McMeel stopped syndicating new comics because they keep trying to sell their old ones.
>>151010789I think Jim Davis was the one who first insisted on the horizontal book format for the Garfield collections as he hated how others would rearrange the panels and muck up the flow.
>>151011031Yeah, they started calling it "The Garfield Format" after the collections hit 8 New York Times best sellers lists after Jim Davis convinced them to print the books that way
>>150991393They look like a buffet of fuckable meat
>>150998842Kat does not look half black at all
>>150997798It's crazy how thoroughly Donald Trump's pre-2016 legacy of being a cartoonishly tasteless slumlord slapping gold foil on everything he can get his hands on has been erased
>>151011121Even the boy?
>>151009853>More book collections this is because they've gone into the graphic novel business essentially as a way to make up for dying newspapers (dying by stupid ownerships not because of being a newspaper) that's why Phoebe and her Unicorn cut down to weekly and mostly focused on GN's
>>150991393Don't like the style in this picture to be honest.
>>150995697Was that pic of yours a show that got cancelled during production?
>>151011615Anon this woman is half black
>>150997325It was fine enough to be posted in a syndicated newspaper, but too racy for an anonymous image board?I asked for someone to post it because I can't ind it online. Went through Go Comics chronologically trying to find it and unless I missed it I think it's been pulled.
>>151010553>Basically it all comes down to money, but another huge factor in regard to newspaper comics, is space. There are not spots open and any that would are long reserved, so don't create a new comic but use an existing IP and the rebrand it, since they own it.This.It's not a new comic, just under new management.Personally, I like Charlotte.She and Dean have a nice chemistry.
>>151015229Even if Charlotte has to win all the time?
>>151016463Is this a parody?
>>151016778A parody of what?
>>151016938it's too sincere for anon's irony-poisoned brain
>>151014541>halfHer dad is maybe half black. She's a quadroon at most.
>>150991393kino
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>>150991393Looks like tumblr slop
