-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/07 08:35, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Thursday 01 February 2007 00:27, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:29:16PM -0500, Max Hyre wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: >>>> On 01/31/07 16:58, Hal Vaughan wrote: >>>>> Maybe, but we'll never see an American 'toon that'll top Johnny >>>>> Quest. >>>> I mentioned /JQ/ to my son the other night. "What's /Johnny >>>> Quest/?" >>>> >>>> We're so old. And I'm too young to have watched JQ first runs. >>> When I was maybe 10, reading the entire science fiction >>> section of my local library, I came a cross a book whose >>> protagonist was Johnny Quest. He was searching for his >>> father, and it was involved, IIRC, with an underwater city. >>> >>> Much later I became aware of _Johnny Quest_ the cartoon, >>> and wondered whether it was the same. Anyone know? >> The wife says Johnny Quest the cartoon was about Johnny, his friend >> Hadji, and Johnny's father in various adventures. She doesn't think >> it is based on any books, but then she did read much at that stage... >> THe underwater city thing doesn't ring a bell at all. Still, could be >> based on the idea. > > I never thought of the toon being based on a book. I know that was not > the case, but that doesn't rule out that there could have been books > based on the series. I also know the series was the first toon (at > least in USA) where they actually researched what they were writing > about before writing the script.
Just as there are spin-off books of movies, I would not be surprised if there were/are spin-off book of popular cartoons. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFwkiYS9HxQb37XmcRAl7BAKDGsLaN51hFji79CmQDeG7z9udvZQCgoJWz aptyqgkbe6513N9x+ZucwyM= =KtCf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
