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uclick's Shoecabbage Flashes its Audience

Kansas City, Mo.  (10/05/2004)  uclick's cartoon "Shoecabbage" is at it again. This time it's a new Flash movie based loosely on original quotes found in the three-times-per-week comic panel about languages.

"Uh-Huh: A Shoecabbage Movie" was written by Teresa Dowlatshahi, who co-creates "Shoecabbage" with cartoonist David Stanford.

"The movie was inspired by a single 'Shoecabbage' panel," says Dowlatshahi. "The whole loopy script was inspired by that single, wonderful drawing."

Award-winning Flash animator Mark Clarkson, author of numerous articles and books, including "Flash 5 Cartooning," created the Flash animations as well as the voiceovers.

"Mark has amazing abilities," notes Dowlatshahi. "We really lucked out."

uclick's own Doug Sparling, senior programmer at uclick, also collaborated on the project by composing and performing the movie's music soundtrack.

"Doug is a gifted musician," says Dowlatshahi. "In fact, I sometimes find myself watching the movie just to hear the music."

"This movie represents the collaborative effort of four talented creators," says Scott Shorter, uclick's director of content acquisition. "It's a different approach to humor that's made possible by the Web and uComics.com. There's no outlet for this type of entertainment in traditional media."

"Uh-Huh" can be viewed at www.ucomics.com/shoecabbage/flash.phtml. Closed captioning for the hearing impaired is available by clicking "CC."

"Shoecabbage" is syndicated by uclick, a company of Andrews McMeel Universal, the parent company of Universal Press Syndicate and Andrews McMeel Publishing. uclick syndicates digital content on the Web, through wireless devices and by e-mail, including the highly sought-after work of more than 200 nationally syndicated creators of comics, puzzles, games and text features. Millions of users access uclick content daily through uclick's own sites, like uComics.com, Garfield.com and Doonesbury.com, and through 300+ syndication clients, including newspaper Web sites like NYTimes.com and WashingtonPost.com. Content appears on major Web portals like AOL, Yahoo.com, MSNBC.com, CBSNews.com and iWon.com. uclick also delivers its content directly to more than 30,000 paid subscribers on MyComicsPage.com and thePuzzleSociety.com. Its comics incubation site, Comics Sherpa, is fast becoming a well-known community of aspiring cartoonists from around the world. For more information, go to www.uclick.com or www.ucomics.com.

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Contact(s): Lillian Kuras, 816/360-6933

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