CNN Apologizes For Toilet-Talk Leak During Bush Speech

CNN has apologized for accidentally transmitting 90 seconds of conversation between two women in the studio toilet while viewers watched President Bush make a live speech from New Orleans.
 
Listeners found themselves listening to anchorwoman Kyra Phillips telling another unidentified woman positive things about her husband but also about her 'control freak' sister-in-law.
 
Shortly after this another voice is heard advising Phillips to switch off her microphone as her voice is being transmitted live, with the chat abruptly ending. CNN has apologized to viewers and the president for the gaffe.

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Greystone Flashback: Trever

Today's comic features a cameo appearance by Trever, who started as an intern at Greystone Inn and worked his way up to assistant producer.

What you may not know is that I considered spinning Trever off into his own strip. I had been doing Greystone Inn for a couple years (and was quite pleased with its progress), but I still harbored interest in becoming syndicated at that point. I knew the syndicates would never accept GI, but after reading an article about a new demographic group -- Boomerangers -- I thought I had a good concept for a strip that a syndicate might accept. Boomerangers, the story said, were kids who graduated college and then moved back in with their Baby Boomer parents. Seeing the number of comics that the syndicates launched that seemed to be based on nothing but demographics, I decided to pitch a strip based on Boomerangers.

So, I produced a four-week storyline that featured Trever and his decision to move in with his parents after graduating college. I packed it up and shipped it off to all of the major syndicates, confident that I was finally ahead of the curve. I had my demographic, I had my characters, and I had my cartooning up to the level that I thought I could attract the attention of an editor.

Needless to say, I was rejected all around.

Plastic Man on Cartoon Network

[Ain't It Cool News] It seems there was a Plastic Man pilot created for Cartoon Network, but it is no longer available on YouTube. A description survives, though, here. It sounds fantastic! I can only hope that the project is still in the pipeline somewhere and might yet hit my TV screen.

Meanwhile, enjoy some of the storyboard art that was produced for the pilot. You can see even more and read about the process of creating the pilot here.