I couldn't get up to Hollywood Boulevard today to see Soupy Sales receive his star in the cement but my friend Mark Kausler (only one of the great animators working today) made the soggy trek. He sent this e-mail and gave me his okay to post it here for all… Because of your website, I […]
The Bush administration has apparently decided that a good use of your tax dollars is to make cash awards to subsidize right-wing talk radio and TV. So far, this report in USA Today has gone undenied and has even been more or less confirmed… Seeking to build support among black families for its education reform […]
Above left is the cover of Fantasy Masterpieces #4, a reprint title that Marvel put out back in 1966. At the time, it was reprinting the original Captain America stories by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, in part because the publisher was then anticipating legal action from Simon and somehow thought it would help to […]
Okay. About the same time I was posting the rumor that Paramount Home Video was about to announce a DVD of the 1959 Li'l Abner, Paramount Home Video issued a press release announcing a DVD of the 1959 Li'l Abner. It comes out April 19, as does a DVD of Darling Lili, another interesting movie […]
TV Legend Soupy Sales is supposed to receive his long overdue star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, tomorrow morning at 11:30 AM. The location is at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Orange Dr., right in front of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. That's the good news. The bad is that the National Weather Service […]
I am told by several sources that Paramount is about to announce a DVD release of the 1959 Li'l Abner movie (the one we all want) for April 19. It'll have a new, crisp transfer but probably no extras apart from the theatrical trailer. If I hear anything more, I'll let you know. […]
Hello, everyone. The computer is fixed (thanks, Bill) but I'm way behind on things, so there won't be a lot of postings here the next few days. A lot of you are sending me long, thoughtful letters about Will Eisner. They are all interesting to read, but please share them with the world by posting […]
So this morning, my high-speed Internet connection suddenly begins cutting in and out, mostly out. The Comcast people were of no help on the phone and they're currently planning to send out a repair person next week, assuming they can find one. But that wasn't a total crisis since I still had my dial-up connection, […]
If I look a little slow for the next few days, it's because the high-speed Internet connections in my area are stammering — on for ten minutes, off for an hour, on again, off again. I'm on a primitive, moves-like-molasses dial-up connection right now and may be for some time. So posting will be lighter […]
Above, we see Will Eisner in his natural habitat: At the drawing board, and probably producing one of the most innovative pieces of comic art of its day, whatever day it was. Eisner, who died Monday evening due to complications following his recent heart surgery, was one of the most important architects of the American […]
As many have written me, the TiVo folks have finally started releasing "TiVo to Go," which is a new feature for most Series 2 TiVos. If you have your machine networked with your computer, you can record a show on your TiVo and then transfer it to your PC. (A Macintosh version is somewhere in […]
Funeral services for Frank Kelly Freas are being held tomorrow afternoon in Canoga Park, California at 1 PM. If anyone wants the information, drop me a private note and I'll forward what I have. […]
The other day, I suggested that a good place to send your money for disaster relief was the Red Cross. This is still a good idea but I have a better suggestion. If you have money to send and you want to see it used by an organization that truly puts it where it'll do […]
Frank Kelly Freas, the acclaimed science-fiction illustrator (and delineator of Alfred E. Neuman) passed away quietly this morning at approximately 4 AM. He was nominated twenty times (a record) for the Hugo Award for his artwork and won ten times (another record) as Best Professional Artist. His artwork graced the covers and/or insides of books […]
Seems like a mostly-lovely day out my Los Angeles window. We've had a lot of rain lately but it always seems to clear out just in time for the rest of the world to watch the Rose Parade and resent us. Didn't see Regis Philbin filling in for Dick Clark last night. Did see some […]