Friday, June 3, 2005

Foto Blogging

So without a lot of time to write, I'm going to create the illusion of activity on this weblog by posting photos. This one was taken last weekend at the National Cartoonist Society get-together in Scottsdale, Arizona. The gent with the mustache is my collaborator of mucho años, Sergio Aragonés, who has been a mainstay of Mad Magazine since 1963. The man he's speaking with is Jack Davis, who was in Mad as of its first issue in 1952, and who went on to become one of the most popular commercial artists in the world. They're sharing a nice moment talking about something-or-other. Sneaking past them at left is Irwin Hasen, who was a great illustrator for DC Comics in the forties and early fifties, and who was later best known for the Dondi newspaper strip. Read more about Sergio here and about Irwin here, and one of these days, I've got to write something about Jack.

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Friday Morning

First off, I'm way behind on responding to e-mail, and it'll probably get worse before it gets better. My ongoing apologies to those of you whose messages languish in my "to be answered" folder.

Secondly, I'm almost burned-out on reading about Mark "Deep Throat" Felt but this article by John W. Dean is of great interest to those of us who wallow in this stuff. Even more important is this list Dean has compiled of what Felt/Throat is known to have told Bob Woodward and how much of it was wrong. It may, however, have been close enough for government work.

The weekend rerun of an old Saturday Night Live is of little interest. It's a 1998 episode guest-hosted by Scott Wolf. But the following week, they jump back to 5/22/76 for one with Buck Henry and musical guest Gordon Lightfoot. It contains the "Talk Back" sketch which I thought was the funniest thing they did the first season. There's also an installment of "Samurai Tailor," Michael O'Donoghue doing his impression of Tony Orlando and Dawn having sharp steel needles plunged into their eye sockets, and Lorne Michaels upping his offer to The Beatles to reunite on SNL.

Sunday evening, we'll all be watching The Tony Awards, which I suspect means we'll see a lot of Eric Idle.

Some time next week, I'll probably be posting the schedule of events I'm hosting at this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego. Looks like there'll be fourteen of 'em — a new record for me and one that means I'll be spending all four days in various convention halls. Well, it beats trying to get a hotel room down there...

Back to a deadline...

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