"Rabbit, Run (film) Rabbit, Run is a 1970 American independent film directed by Jack Smight adapted from John Updike's 1960 novel by Howard B. Kreitsek, who also served as producer. The film starred James Caan as Rabbit Angstrom, Carrie Snodgress as Rabbit's wife Janice, and Anjanette Comer as his girlfriend Ruth. The movie co-starred Jack Albertson as Coach Marty Tothero, Arthur Hill as Rev. Jack Eccles, and Henry Jones and Josephine Hutchinson as Rabbit's parents. In Reading, Pennsylvania, former high school basketball star Harry ""Rabbit"" Angstrom is dissatisfied with both his failure to find a career and with his loveless"
"most famous work is his ""Rabbit"" series (the novels ""Rabbit, Run""; ""Rabbit Redux""; ""Rabbit Is Rich""; ""Rabbit at Rest""; and the novella ""Rabbit Remembered""), which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry ""Rabbit"" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death. Both ""Rabbit Is Rich"" (1982) and ""Rabbit at Rest"" (1990) were recognized with the Pulitzer Prize. Describing his subject as ""the American small town, Protestant middle class"", Updike was recognized for his careful craftsmanship, his unique prose style, and his prolific outputhe wrote on average a book a year. Updike populated his fiction with"
"and 1970s are included in a letter to the same paper published soon after Updike's death and written by a friend and contemporary. In Ipswich, Updike wrote ""Rabbit, Run"" (1960), on a Guggenheim Fellowship, and ""The Centaur"" (1963), two of his most acclaimed and famous works; the latter won the National Book Award. ""Rabbit, Run"" featured Harry ""Rabbit"" Angstrom, a former high school basketball star and middle-class paragon who would become Updike's most enduring and critically acclaimed character. Updike wrote three additional novels about him. ""Rabbit, Run"" was featured in ""Time""s All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels. Updike's career and reputation were"
"chosen the name Rabbit for his character for its echo of Sinclair Lewis's ""Babbitt"", whose main theme ""focuses on the power of conformity, and the vacuity of middle-class American life"". This is unlikely, however, as Updike claims not to have read Lewis's novel until after he wrote ""Rabbit at Rest"". Updike said in interviews that the name Angstrom was inspired by his reading of Kierkegaard and meant to suggest 'stream of Angst'. Updike said that when he looked around in 1959 he saw a number of scared dodgy men who could not make commitments, men who peaked in high school"
"of man in the modern age."" In contrast, John Updike approached American life from a more reflective but no less subversive perspective. His 1960 novel ""Rabbit, Run,"" the first of four chronicling the rising and falling fortunes of Harry ""Rabbit"" Angstrom over the course of four decades against the backdrop of the major events of the second half of the 20th century, broke new ground on its release in its characterization and detail of the American middle class and frank discussion of taboo topics such as adultery. Notable among Updike's characteristic innovations was his use of present-tense narration, his rich,"
"is extremely well regarded as a writer who mastered many genres, wrote with intellectual vigor and a powerful prose style, with ""shrewd insight into the sorrows, frustrations, and banality of American life"". Updike's character Rabbit Angstrom, the protagonist of the series of novels widely considered his ""magnum opus"", has been said to have ""entered the pantheon of signal American literary figures"", along with Huckleberry Finn, Jay Gatsby, Holden Caulfield and others. A 2002 list by ""Book"" magazine of the 100 Best Fictional Characters Since 1900 listed Rabbit in the top five. The Rabbit novels, the Henry Bech stories, and the"
"Ernie Hart Ernest Huntley Hart (October 2, 1910 – May 2, 1985 or July 1985; sources differ), also known as H.E. Huntley, was an American comic-book writer and artist best known for creating Marvel Comics' funny animal character Super Rabbit as well as co-creating the superhero The Wasp. In addition, he variously wrote, edited and illustrated numerous books on dog breeding and ownership. During the 1930s, Ernie Hart painted murals for the Works Progress Administration. In the following decade he joined Timely Comics, the future Marvel Comics, as part of its ""animator"" bullpen, separate from the superhero group that produced"
"of the latter half of the 20th century. Harry ""Rabbit"" Angstrom, formerly a high school basketball star, is now 26, and has a job selling a kitchen gadget named MagiPeeler. He is married to Janice, who was a salesgirl at the store where he once worked, and who is now pregnant. They live in Mount Judge, a suburb of Brewer, Pennsylvania, and have a two-year-old son named Nelson. Harry finds middle-class family life unsatisfying, and, on the spur of the moment, he leaves his family and drives south in an attempt to ""escape"". After getting lost, he returns to his"
"Man-Bat Man-Bat (Robert Kirkland ""Kirk"" Langstrom) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of the superhero Batman. Man-Bat was created by Frank Robbins and Neal Adams in collaboration with editor Julius Schwartz, and the character debuted in ""Detective Comics"" #400 (June 1970). The character made his first appearance in ""Detective Comics"" #400 (June 1970) and was created by Frank Robbins and Neal Adams in collaboration with editor Julius Schwartz. Man-Bat was the star of his own eponymous series in 1975–1976, which lasted two issues before being cancelled. Dr. Kirk Langstrom,"
"Ed Benedict Ed Benedict (August 23, 1912 – August 28, 2006) was an American animator and layout artist. He is best known for his work with Hanna-Barbera Studios, where he helped design Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear, and Reddy on Ruff and Reddy. He began his animation career in 1930 at Walt Disney Studios. He left in 1933 to work at Universal Studios as an animator on Walter Lantz's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts. (Coincidentally, Oswald was created by Walt Disney Studios for Universal). Benedict briefly returned to Disney in the 1940s, receiving his only Disney credit on the animated film"
"Ballantine Books, Pyramid Books and Ace Books, as well as Gold Medal, Avon, Permabook, and Pocket Books. He illustrated Edgar Rice Burroughs' books, including the Tarzan series, Barsoom series, and Pellucidar series. Robert K. Abbett Robert Kennedy Abbett (January 5, 1926 – June 20, 2015) was an American artist and illustrator. Abbett was born in 1926 in Hammond, Indiana. During the late-1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Robert Abbett, also credited as Bob Abbett, illustrated book covers for war novels, detective novels, thrillers, historical fiction and science fiction. Today, Abbett is best known for his paintings of wildlife (in particular, dogs), wilderness,"
"together, but she saves his life. The near-death experience causes them to reevaluate their relationship and Janice returns to Harry. The Angstroms warily settle back into family life as they face the dawn of the 1970s. Contemporary reviews of the book were generally positive and often glowing. Time Magazine said of the book and its author, ""Updike owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligence and a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit. A masterpiece."" Anatole Broyard, writing for The New York Times opined, ""In ""Rabbit Redux,"" Updike's ear is perfect and he has finally put together in his"
"Bernard Krigstein Bernard Krigstein (March 22, 1919 – January 8, 1990), was an American illustrator and gallery artist who received acclaim for his innovative and influential approach to comic book art, notably in EC Comics. He was known as Bernie Krigstein, and his artwork usually displayed the signature B. Krigstein. His best-known work in comic books is the short story ""Master Race"", originally published in the debut issue (April 1955) of EC Comics' ""Impact"". Born in Brooklyn, New York City, Krigstein was trained as a classical painter. His earliest confirmed work in comics is penciling and inking the 10-page, patriotic"
"held custody of the Squad. Man-Bat Man-Bat (Robert Kirkland ""Kirk"" Langstrom) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of the superhero Batman. Man-Bat was created by Frank Robbins and Neal Adams in collaboration with editor Julius Schwartz, and the character debuted in ""Detective Comics"" #400 (June 1970). The character made his first appearance in ""Detective Comics"" #400 (June 1970) and was created by Frank Robbins and Neal Adams in collaboration with editor Julius Schwartz. Man-Bat was the star of his own eponymous series in 1975–1976, which lasted two issues before"
"a rat (the latter being Gottfredson's own interpretation), but his ears suggest that he is rather an anthropomorphic canine. He first appeared in the comic strip adventure ""Mickey Mouse in Death Valley"", the first real Mickey Mouse continuity, which was partially written by Walt Disney and drawn by Win Smith and other artists, before being taken over by Floyd Gottfredson (plot and art). In this story, Sylvester Shyster was a crooked lawyer who attempted, with the help of his henchman Pete, to deprive Minnie Mouse of her inheritance. Shyster and Pete have been causing trouble for Mickey and his friends"
"Adelstein and Sunrise Inc., which also produced the original anime. Christopher Yost Christopher Lee Yost (born February 21, 1973) is an American film, animation, and comic book writer best known as the head writer of the Marvel Comics animated series """" and co-writer (with his frequent collaborator Craig Kyle) of the comic book series ""X-23: Innocence Lost"", ""X-23: Target X"", ""New X-Men"", ""X-Force"", and ""Scarlet Spider"" (volume 2). Yost was a member of the Marvel Writers Program and has worked as a screenwriter for Marvel Studios' Marvel Cinematic Universe with """" (2013) and """" (2017). Christopher Yost graduated from the"
"Robb Armstrong Robb Armstrong is an American cartoonist, best known for creating the comic strip ""Jump Start"", as well as for some of his motivational speeches. Armstrong was born on March 4, 1962, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Armstrong graduated from Syracuse University with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts. He started drawing sketches of Charlie Brown at age five, and he lists Charles M. Schulz as one of his influences and heroes. Schulz gave his Franklin, the ""Peanuts"" strip’s black character, the surname Armstrong, after Robb Armstrong. Armstrong's mother, Dorothy was a seamstress. He had four siblings. ""Jump Start"", Armstrong's comic"
"the others being William Faulkner and Booth Tarkington. In 1995, Everyman's Library collected and canonized the four novels as the omnibus ""Rabbit Angstrom""; Updike wrote an introduction in which he described Rabbit as ""a ticket to the America all around me. What I saw through Rabbit's eyes was more worth telling than what I saw through my own, though the difference was often slight."" Updike later called Rabbit ""a brother to me, and a good friend. He opened me up as a writer."" After the publication of ""Rabbit at Rest"", Updike spent the rest of the 1990s and early 2000s"
"Robert W. Bergstrom Robert W. Bergstrom (1918 in Chicago, Illinois – June 4, 2006) was a lawyer, best known for defending Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation and its associates in a suit brought by Nathan Leopold, alleging that the film ""Compulsion"" used his court case for profit. Leopold and Richard Loeb had been sentenced to life in prison in a high-profile court case for the kidnap and murder of Robert Franks in 1924. Due to his work in this case, and the eventual decision in favor of the defendants, Bergstrom won the Preeminent Bar Rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has a Hollywood"
"Redux (literary term) Redux is a post-positive adjective meaning ""brought back, restored"" (from Latin ""reducere"", ""to bring back"") used in literature, film and video game titles. Works of literature using the word in the title include John Dryden's ""Astraea Redux"" (1662), ""a poem on the happy restoration and return of His Sacred Majesty""; Anthony Trollope's ""Phineas Redux"" (1873), the sequel to ""Phineas Finn"" (1867); and John Updike's ""Rabbit Redux"" (1971), the second in his sequence of novels about the character Rabbit Angstrom. ""Rabbit Redux"" led to a return in the popularity of the word redux and, in ""Rabbit at Rest"""
"Rat (an obvious parody of Mickey Mouse) was created by Armstrong in 1971 as a character on a T-shirt. The popularity of the character led to him appearing in comics, which were initially scripted by Chester C. Crill. Mickey's first appearance was ""L.A. Comics"" #1 (published by the Los Angeles Comic Book Company in December 1971). Mickey was ""sleazy, opportunistic, capable of just about any foul deed, but also shallow, one-dimensional, and incapable of growth or subtlety. He seems to have had little in the way of motivation, beyond his creators' desire to make him the opposite of the other"
"""The Ruff & Reddy Show"". He eventually became the primary character designer at Hanna-Barbera, designing Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, the various characters on ""The Flintstones"", and many others. Benedict left Hanna-Barbera in the late 1960s, but continued providing freelance work until his retirement in the early 1970s. Still, he served as one of the advisors on Cartoon Network's original series ""Johnny Bravo"". He is cited as a major inspiration by animator John Kricfalusi, among others. Benedict died in his sleep at his home in Auburn, California Ed Benedict Ed Benedict (August 23, 1912 – August 28, 2006)"
"Robert Bernstein (comics) Robert Bernstein (May 23, 1919 – December 19, 1988), sometimes credited as R. Berns, was an American comic book writer, playwright and concert impresario, notable as the founder of the Island Concert Hall recital series which ran for 15 years on Long Island. As a writer, he is best known for his EC Comics tales and his Superman stories for DC Comics, where he also established the origin and mythos of Aquaman. With various artists, Bernstein co-created DC's Congorilla, Aqualad and Aquagirl, and also Archie Comics' the Jaguar. Like most comics professionals of this time, Bernstein went"
"for the Humanitas Award. Skir has taught numerous classes in Animation Writing at UCLA's Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media. Robert N. Skir Robert N. Skir (born 3 January 1961) is a writer best known for his work in television animation on shows including ""X-Men"", ""Gargoyles"", """", and ""Spider-Man"". He co-created and served as Story Editor on programs including ""Transformers: Beast Machines"", ""Extreme Ghostbusters"", """", and ""DinoSquad"", and co-developed the series """". His work on the series ""Transformers: Beast Machines"", was highly controversial, gaining favor among new viewers but polarizing longtime Transformer fans. His short story ""Singularity Ablyss"" was"
"Walk of Fame star. Robert W. Bergstrom Robert W. Bergstrom (1918 in Chicago, Illinois – June 4, 2006) was a lawyer, best known for defending Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation and its associates in a suit brought by Nathan Leopold, alleging that the film ""Compulsion"" used his court case for profit. Leopold and Richard Loeb had been sentenced to life in prison in a high-profile court case for the kidnap and murder of Robert Franks in 1924. Due to his work in this case, and the eventual decision in favor of the defendants, Bergstrom won the Preeminent Bar Rating from Martindale-Hubbell"
"Quick Brown Fox and Rapid Rabbit Quick Brown Fox and Rapid Rabbit were a pair of Warner Bros. cartoon characters, created by Robert McKimson, who appeared in only one cartoon, ""Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!"". Future cartoons featuring the characters were planned, but were cancelled following the shutdown of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation in 1969. Rapid Rabbit, a small brown rabbit (who's not to be confused with Rapid T. Rabbit), is every bit as fast as his name implies; a pantomime character, he never says a word, but uses a bicycle horn to express himself. He is inspired by the"
"Super-Rabbit Super-Rabbit is a 1943 Warner Bros. cartoon starring Bugs Bunny who is parodying the popular comic book character Superman. ""Super-Rabbit"" was the 16th Bugs Bunny entry, and the 47th directed by Chuck Jones. Professor Cannafraz (a Richard Haydn impression) creates a ""super carrot"" and uses it on his test subject – Rabbitus idioticus americanus (Bugs Bunny), who immediately wolfs down the proffered carrot. Armed with temporary superhero abilities that need to be replenished with additional super carrots, Bugs remembers a newspaper article about Texas hunter ""Cottontail"" Smith, who wants to hunt down all rabbits. Bugs flies to Deepinaharta, Texas,"
"Ann O'Brien Ann O'Brien is a comic book superheroine created by American comic book artist Art Adams. Along with Axwell Tiberius, she is one of the two primary characters in Adams' Dark Horse Comics series ""Monkeyman and O'Brien"". Ann O'Brien was created by writer/artist Art Adams, who conceived of ""Monkeyman & O'Brien"" as series that would enable him to draw monsters similar to the classic movie monsters that he enjoyed in his youth, like Godzilla, King Kong and the Universal Monsters. Adams named O'Brien in tribute to Fay Wray's character, Ann Darrow, from ""King Kong"" and that film's special effects"
"Ink Pen Ink Pen is an American daily comic strip by Phil Dunlap which was syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate/Universal Uclick from 2005 to 2012. It's about an employment agency for out-of-work cartoon characters. Some of the comics characters include: Bixby, the former child star and now a dirty rat; Fritz, a dog and boss of the agency; Hamhock, a pig who is trying to get his 15 minutes of fame; Captain Victorious, a lazy super hero with too many sidekicks; Ralston, a rabbit who is just looking for a higher group of people, and Tyr, the Norse god of"
"Arthur Rankin Jr. Arthur Gardner Rankin Jr. (July 19, 1924 – January 30, 2014) was an American director, producer and writer, who mostly worked in animation. A part of Rankin/Bass Productions with his friend Jules Bass, he created stop-motion animation features such as ""Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,"" ""Frosty the Snowman,"" ""Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town,"" and the 1977 cartoon animation of ""The Hobbit"". He is credited on over 1,000 television programs. Rankin was born in New York City, the son of actors Arthur Rankin and Marian Mansfield. His paternal grandmother was actress Phyllis Rankin, and his paternal step-grandfather,"
"pretty much any adult she encounters, namely Brutus and her teacher. Other characters regularly featured are the Thornapple family dog, Kewpie; Miss Fungus, Wilberforce and Hattie's school teacher; and Wastrel P. Gravesite, a bum who regularly hounds Brutus for money. The Born Loser The Born Loser is a newspaper comic strip created by Art Sansom in 1965. His son, Chip Sansom, who started assisting on the strip in 1989, is the current artist. The strip is distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Association. The Sansoms won the 1987 National Cartoonists Society Humor Comic Strip Award and the 1990 Newspaper Comic Strip Award."
"Ben Raab Benjamin ""Ben"" Raab (born October 13, 1970 in New York City, New York) is an American comic book writer and editor. He has written stories for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, WildStorm, Moonstone Books, Malibu Comics, Harris Publications and Ludovico Technique LLC. Raab is a native of Cedarhurst, New York, and attended Lawrence High School. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in English Literature and Composition. While an assistant editor at Marvel he joined New York University's ""Stan-hattan Project"". Administered by Raab's then Marvel editorial colleague James Felder, the project sought out"
"Robert Kirkman Robert Kirkman (; born November 30, 1978) is an American comic book writer best known for creating ""The Walking Dead"", ""Invincible"", ""Tech Jacket"", ""Outcast"" and ""Oblivion Song"" for Image Comics, in addition to writing ""Ultimate X-Men"", ""Irredeemable Ant-Man"" and ""Marvel Zombies"" for Marvel Comics. He has also collaborated with Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane on the series ""Haunt"". He is one of the five partners of Image Comics, and the only one of the five who was not one of its co-founders. Robert Kirkman was born November 30, 1978, in Lexington, Kentucky, and was raised in Cynthiana, Kentucky."