Ian Frazier Wrote ‘Coyote v. Acme’ in 1990. Now It’s a Movie. (nytimes.com)

With “Coyote vs. Acme,” Ian Frazier, a soft-spoken reporter and humorist, has finally gone Hollywood.

“He just can’t be murderous enough[…]sometimes he gets very peaceful at the end, when he runs off the cliff.” Speaking with Ian Frazier, who wrote the original 1990 New Yorker humor piece #CoyoteVsACME was based on: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/s...

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Ryan W. Mead · 3 · 1d ago
(The article also accurately points out that Joey Green wrote a humor piece about a Coyote/ACME lawsuit for National Lampoon eight years earlier, disappointing both Frazier [who was unaware of it] and Green: “If [the movie’s] based on his, it’s based on mine.”)