As I've written here in the past (here and also here), there's a wonderful little show every Wednesday night at the Acme Comedy Theater up in Hollywood. The venerable game show called What's My Line? comes back from the dead as a very much alive live show. Your host is J. Keith van Straaten who […]
Hey, you know how I've been touting Operation USA as a great place to send your donations to help areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina? Well, United Airlines is working a promotion with them whereby members of its Mileage Plus frequent flyer program can earn bonus miles when they donate. Details here. Thanks, Shelly. You can […]
And now it's come to this: Betty Boop has gone to work for Hooters. That's right…Betty Boop, a 75 year old woman, has taken a job with a restaurant chain that forces women to wear tight shorts and tighter tops as they serve overpriced and overspiced chicken wings. I hope Grampy doesn't hear of this. […]
I think I'm going into one of my "don't read the news for a while" periods. There are a lot of tragedies and potential tragedies out there and at some point yesterday — well, I can tell you when it was; it was ten minutes into Keith Olbermann's report on hurricane devastation — something in […]
I missed one. The comic strip Buckles has been crossing over for a few days now. Here's the first one, here's the second one and here's today's. […]
Blondie references can be found today in Hagar the Horrible, Family Circus, Marvin, Curtis and what else? Help me out here, people. And of course, you should always check out the day's Blondie strip here. They've had some pretty clever ones the last few days. Several folks have written me to ask if the cartoonists […]
Apart from fulfilling my Blondie-monitoring obligations, I haven't felt like posting anything here lately. I have nothing to say about the mess Down South apart from the obvious thoughts about how depressing and tragic it is, and how we should be better prepared for things like this. I don't need to write that and you […]
Dagwood Bumstead visits Baby Blues. […]
Yesterday's Marvin strip and today's. […]
Given what's in the news, I'm really not in the mood to care about Blondie crossovers but I started this so I'm going to keep going… In today's papers, Blondie crossovers and references could be found in Curtis, Buckles, Hagar the Horrible and the strip that oughta be called Snuffy Smith but some papers insist […]
I feel like I should write something profound (or at least, profound by my standards) about the hurricane that is bringing so much misery to several Southern states. Trouble is, I find it just so horrifying and sad that…well, I can't even muster a snotty comment about those reporters who think they have to stand […]
And to cap off Jack Kirby Day, we have the announcement that the online Jack Kirby Museum is up and operating. Randolph Hoppe, John Morrow, Lisa Kirby and all the folks who've pitched in have done a great job. I have no doubt that in the months to come, this will become one of the […]
Just noticed the Blondie crossover in today's Gasoline Alley…filled with a lot of familiar comic strip faces. […]
If you live in Louisiana or anywhere in the path of Hurricane Katrina, I hope you're reading this either from a safe location elsewhere, or days later when you return to find your home safe and undamaged. Events like this that remind me of a line I quoted here a while back. Someone asked Kurt […]
It's funny. No matter how much I write about Jack Kirby — and I've written an awful lot, including a monster of a biography that's nearing completion — it's never enough. Maybe that's why the book has taken so long. Jack was such an awesome presence that even today, more than a decade after his […]