Thursday, April 14, 2011

AS SEEN ON TV: "THE WIZARD OF ID"

And now a little something different for the "As Seen On TV" showcase for my day off.....

"THE WIZARD OF ID"

The Wizard - Jim Henson
The King - Jerry Juhl
Spook - Jim Henson

From Wikipedia:
"The Wizard of Id" is a daily newspaper comic strip created by American cartoonists Brant Parker and Johnny Hart. Beginning in 1964, the strip follows the antics of a large cast of characters in a shabby medieval kingdom called "Id". From time to time, the King refers to his subjects as "Idiots". (The title is a play on "The Wizard of Oz", combined with the Freudian psychological term Id, which represents the instinctive and primal part of the human psyche.)

In 1997 Brant Parker passed his duties on to his son, Jeff Parker, who had already been involved with creating Id for a decade. As of late 2002, the strip appears in some 1,000 newspapers all over the world, syndicated by Creators Syndicate.

In 1969, Jim Henson and Don Sahlin produced a test pilot for "The Wizard of Id". By the time interest was expressed in the concept Henson was deeply involved in other projects and decided to not pursue it any further.






For More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Id


BCnU!

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