pugs

2016 sees the 20th anniversary of Pokémon, and the world is geared up for celebration, with digital re-releases of Pokémon Red and Blue, the augmented reality app Pokémon Go, and now, this fan-made art book of all 150 original Pokémon drawn to look like... adorable pugs! The project, by Australian graphic designer and illustrator Sean Dowling, is live on Kickstarter now with a host of rewards including posters, art cards and a softcover book of all 150 titled “The Pugédex”.

Tuesday's links ahoy! (after the jump)

Holidays: It's Thanksgiving here in the United States, so we're doing the holiday thing. Hope you folks are enjoying yourselves, even if you're abroad and have to pay the bills today! Toys: Mimoco has announced a new line of Mimobot Star Trek designer flash drives that includes Captain Kirk, Spock, Captain Picard and Data...

Star Wars is many things to many people, but mostly it is loved. Like, super loved. Disney loves it so much it bought Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion last week and today's release of Angry Birds Star Wars which will probably make around that much by...

Movies: Disney has announced that it will release Edgar Wright's live action Ant-Man movie on Nov. 6, 2015. Tech: Engadget goes hands-on with the new Wacom Cintiq 24HD touch and offers its impressions of the latest high end art tool. Art: Berk Senturk imagines the Justice League (and other comic book characters) of the Ottoman Empire...

Want to convert regular photos into something resembling comic book art, but don't want to Google a Photoshop tutorial? Thanks to Supersoftware's Manga-Camera app on iOS, you can now instantly convert iPhone snapshots into black and white wonders adorned with a variety of backgrounds and sound effect staples from the manga tradition...

The Dark Knight Rises finally arrives in theaters tomorrow, July 20 (of course if you're a regular CA reader, there's a good chance you're seeing the end of Christopher Nolan's Bat-trilogy tonight at midnight), and to mark the occasion, Warner Bros...

This past weekend my wife and I, along with our pooch Pearl the pug, attended the 12th annual Oregon Humane Society Pug Crawl in Portland. This year's theme for the OHS fundraiser was "Pug Nation: A Better Pug for a Better America!" which came alive in a parade of costumed pugs and pug mixes wearing a variety of patriotic costumes...

Just as Marvel Studios has spent the past few summers building a cinematic universe where its most famous heroes can team up, so too has Hasbro built a corresponding plastic realm where fans young and old can act out the adventures of The Avengers with action figures, role play toys and costume items...

Since 1977 Star Wars fans, shackled by the lameness of physics, have only had two options when it comes to lightsaber toys: 1. You can buy a retractable blade made of clear plastic that simulates "unsheathing" or 2. You can buy a solid saber, with a blade that's essentially a light-up tube...