My Christmas Wish Comes True!
Yes, as it turns out, there is! [Thank you, Frank Buxton.] […]
Author: Mark Evanier
Posts by Mark Evanier
My Christmas Wish
Ah, you know what would make this holiday season perfect? I'd love to see the movie, It's a Wonderful Life, re-enacted in thirty seconds by cartoon rabbits. But of course, there's nowhere you can see that. […]
The World's Greatest Secret…Revealed!
If you ever order from Amazon-dot-com or think you might ever order from Amazon-dot-com, you will want to read this. […]
Recommended Reading
So here's what the controversy over Donald Rumsfeld's performance comes down to: Liberal columnists think he's incompetent and we should blame the president for picking and retaining this guy. Conservative columnists think he's incompetent but we shouldn't blame the president for picking and retaining this guy. [Washington Post, registration probably a must] […]
The Great Negotiation-After-the-Fact Scam
Over at his weblog, Tom Tomorrow writes about a problem he had that I've also had and that many freelance writers and artists have endured. In his experience, he wrote something for Slate and then, months later, they sent him all sorts of forms he'd have to sign in order to get paid for the […]
Book Report
I still haven't gotten around to reading (or even getting) the new Gerard Jones book on the history of the folks who shaped the comic book industry, Men of Tomorrow. But my pal Pat O'Neill has done both and written his review. […]
More Python Press
Dave Eggers writes a nice piece in The New Yorker on Monty P. and their upcoming Broadway excursion. Also, here, Eggers is interviewed and elaborates. Check both of these out now as New Yorker links have a way of not being active for long. [Thanks, "larrybatman," for pointing it out.] […]
Today's Political Rant
This morning, George W. Bush presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to retired General Tommy Franks, who oversaw combat in Afghanistan and the initial invasion of Iraq, former CIA Director George Tenet and former Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer. Franks, I can almost see. Things did go well, at least for a time in Afghanistan…but […]
Spamalot Patrol
Nice article on Eric Idle and his new Monty Python musical in the Chicago-Tribune. [Registration required but free] Amusingly, Slate today makes reference to "Mike Nichols' inspired musical about Monty Python." Nichols is directing but isn't it pretty obvious that the possessive here is misdirected and that the driving force in this project is Mr. […]
Morning Thoughts
I never followed the Scott Peterson case. I don't know how obvious it is that he killed his pregnant spouse (assuming he did) and I have no more emotional investment in the matter than I have for any homicide involving people I never heard of before. I gather that this one got as much attention […]
Recommended Reading
Col. David H. Hackworth (USA Ret.) writes about those sad letters that the Secretary of Defense (and sometimes, the President) have to send to families telling them that a loved one has died in the line of service. In the past, it has been customary for these letters to be hand-signed but the always-considerate Donald […]
Bad to the Bone
Let me be the last comics/animation-related weblog to link to these clever drawings by Michael Paulus of the skeletons of famous cartoon characters. (This is one of those links I didn't post because everyone else has…but since everyone keeps sending it to me, I figured I might as well. Nice stuff.) […]
Recommended Reading
I don't know why I found this article interesting but I did so maybe you will. The Fulton Fish Market in New York is moving to new, more modern digs. Read all about it. [New York Times, but I don't think registration will be required for this one.] […]
Bob 'n' Daws
Bob Clampett is the gent at left in the above photo. Bob was one of the all-time great directors of animated cartoons, most notably for Warner Brothers during that studio's "golden age." He later went on to produce a couple of the first great TV programs for kids, starting with a witty puppet show called […]
Good Casting
Warner Home Video is currently airing TV commercials for the newly-released DVD sets of Top Cat and The Flintstones, and I noticed a nice touch in them. They could have gotten any of a thousand different announcers to do the voiceover but they brought in John Stephenson, who was the voice of many characters on […]