Category: Comics - Sunday

Over the Hedge (UM) by Michael Fry and T Lewis

NEWS FLASH!!

The "Over the Hedge" animated feature film is officially scheduled for release in June 2006 by Dreamworks. While the voice talents of Bruce Willis (as RJ) and Garry Shandling (as Verne) had already been announced, an impressive voice cast of supporting characters has now been confirmed, including William Shatner, Nick Nolte, Wanda Sikes, Steve Carell,

Created by Michael Fry and T Lewis, Over the Hedge takes a freshly skewed look at suburban living from the perspective of the animals who lived there first. The strip stars RJ, a mischievous raccoon, and Verne, his sensitive best-buddy turtle. Together they philosophize about life and adapt their woodland habitat to incorporate all the creature comforts that suburbia has to offer.

They fight to save their wooded wonderland from the evils of encroaching suburbia but end up becoming distracted by wide-screen TVs, discarded fast food and the fun of wreaking havoc with the local homeowners' association.

Fry and Lewis wrote an original screenplay for the "Over the Hedge" feature film, which will be released in Australia on June 6th, 2006 with Dreamworks and CGI and will star the voices of, Bruce Willis and Garry Shandling. Over the Hedge won the Religious Communicators Council's 1998 Wilbur Award.

There are three Over the Hedge book collections. Fry also writes and draws "Committed" for UFS. He is executive producer and creative consultant for the animated "Committed" television series. Fry also created "When I Was Short" (with Guy Vasilovich); "Cheeverwood"; "Scotty"; and the editorial cartoon "No Bull."

Lewis has published more than 15 children's titles, and won the National Cartoonists Society's 1999 Reuben Division Award for Book Illustration. While living in Alaska, he contributed to a collection of Alaskan art in the Smithsonian Institute.

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