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Here are some highlights from this year's Eisner Awards Ceremony at Comic-Con. You'll get to hear part of Don Glut's speech as he accepts the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing… […]
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Scenes From Comic-Con #7
Continuing with photos of what I did at Comic-Con, we have a photo of what may just be my favorite panel of any San Diego con. Sunday morning for me always starts with the annual Jack Kirby Tribute Panel which is always packed and always interesting. I love it because Jack was, is and probably […]
Stan
One of the things that amazes me about my silly life is how I got to know and even work with a lot of people who were very inspirational to me when my age was in single digits. There was a myth (probably) that when a woman was pregnant, if she listened to a lot […]
WKRP People
I have a few e-mails asking if I'm going to write anything about Loni Anderson, who left us recently at the age of 79. I'm afraid I don't have much in the way of Loni Anderson stories and what I have, I told here back in 2014 writing about the show that made her famous, […]
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In 2011, Sutton Foster starred on Broadway in the umpteenth revival of Anything Goes, the 1934 Cole Porter musical that had more memorable songs than you'll find in an entire season of new Broadway offerings these days. The most memorable part of Ms. Foster's revival was a dance number set to the title song and […]
(Space) Ghost Artist
I mentioned here that DC Comics will soon issue a hardcover collection of artwork that the late/great Alex Toth did for the firm. I also prayed that they would not use a cover Alex's drawing of Superman had been replaced by one by another artist…and I'm hearing now that that was not the final cover; […]
Scenes From Comic-Con #6
I like that of the nineteen panels I appeared on at Comic-Con, only four could in any way be considered "promotional" for anything in which I have even a teensy financial interest. Two of my panels were about a new book I have coming out this October. It's this one — The Essential Peanuts by […]
Fact-Checking the Fact Check
Yesterday in a Fact Check post, I wrote, "Trump claims that the bad jobs report that just came out is phony and he fired the man who reported it. FactCheck.org says there's no evidence that the reported numbers are inaccurate." As many of you wrote to tell me — and as I have corrected — […]
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Hey, how do they do the Muppets when the Muppets go outside? […]
More Comic-Con News
Okay, so Comic-Con 2025 in San Diego is over. 2026 will take place July 22-26 that year and the con is committed to the San Diego Convention Center for 2027 for (probably) the same week of the year. But what about 2028? That's where it gets interesting because the 2028 Olympic Games will be taking […]
FACT CHECK: No Wonder Kessler's Giving Up
Daniel Dale over at CNN takes a long, deep dive into the history of Donald Trump rewriting history. He includes a number of examples where Trump spokespersons were asked the source of the man's claim and they either couldn't do it, wouldn't do it or just made up something that didn't prove anything. Benjamin Netanyahu […]
Scenes From Comic-Con #5
More photos from what was maybe my favorite Comic-Con of all I've attended in years. There was something magical about the early ones because everything was so new and exciting…and there was also this: My first few dozen years of attending comic book conventions, not just in San Diego but anywhere, I was constantly meeting […]
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Ah, here's another chapter in this series that's examining every season of Saturday Night Live, show by show and cast replacement by cast replacement. This is Season 23 — another year when I barely watched the program — and we aren't even halfway through the history of this series… […]
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Here's an episode of a show I watched every Saturday morning when I was twelve — Mighty Mouse Playhouse, which probably lasted on CBS longer than its ratings warranted for a simple reason: It was produced by the Terrytoons cartoon studio and that studio was purchased by CBS in 1955. So it cost the network […]
That Group Pic
At Comic-Con, we took a rather amazing group photo of a whole lotta cartoon voice actors plus me. In this post, we — and by "we," I mean "I" — asked for help in identifying everyone in the photo. A number of you sent in identifications, including one person who I think got 25 out […]