On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:35:09AM -0500, 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. > I saw recently a PBS show about the author on Tin Tin. He did maticulous research before creating his strips, also. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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