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  Non-Superhero Comic Bits: 'Lions, Tigers And Bears' Gets Writers, 'The Nye Incidents' Back On Track, 'Penny Arcade' Strip Optioned

  By Angie Han June 8th, 2011

  Way back in 2009, we reported on a couple of comic book adaptations in development: Lions, Tigers and Bears, about a boy whose stuffed animals come to life; and The Nye Incidents, based on a Devil's Due comic about an alien abductee serial killer. Neither project got much farther than the early stages, however, and…

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• Pixar's 'Presto' Director Doug Sweetland To Make Feature Debut With 'The Familiars'

  By Peter Sciretta October 4th, 2010

  Doug Sweetland, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his 2009 Pixar-produced computer animated short film Presto (which was attached to WALL-E theatrically) is finally set to direct his first feature length film. A student of CalArts, Sweetland decided to leave school in his final year to join Pixar to become an animator on…

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