Several folks have sent me various links to online videos of last night's verbal scuffle on Hardball between Chris Matthews and Zell Miller. (It's tough to link to some of these online videos. Your best bet is to go to the Hardblogger page and see if there's a link there.) Before I viewed it late […]
Interesting to see John McCain on with Letterman the other night. Michael Moore preceded him in a remote segment, complaining that McCain had slammed his movie without seeing it, which is a perfectly valid point. Fahrenheit 9/11 has been criticized by a lot of people who, like McCain, have only seen excerpts. One suspects some, […]
Watched some of the Republican Convention. Boy, Zell Miller seemed angry, especially for a guy who, not that long ago, spoke so fervently for most of the opposite viewpoints. I can accept and even respect that a man might change his mind but not that he should show so much contempt for people who are […]
Since Garfield and Friends is now emerging on DVD, I'm getting a lot of questions about the series. One that turns up often is, "What's the deal with the Klopman Diamond?" For a year or three on the show, it seemed like we couldn't go a week without someone mentioning the Klopman Diamond and folks […]
Four or five times a week, I get an e-mail asking me my opinion of Tales to Astonish, a recently-issued biography of Jack Kirby by "Ronin Ro." I've avoided answering because I've been having a hard time figuring out how to phrase my response, and because every so often, I pick up my copy, re-read […]
Here's a message I received that I think is worth answering at length… Let me start by saying that I am a big fan of your writing. I loved POV when it was in CBG and try to check your site everyday. I also have every issue of Groo. But…come on now with your anti-Bush […]
Over at Slate, William Saletan is reporting from the Republican convention and making some pretty sound (I think) observations about the empty rhetoric of some of the speeches. I suggest everyone read this piece and also his weblog. […]
I've received a number of messages not unlike this one from a reader who signs himself "Jim"… I imagine the goal is to provide an alternative voice to the around-the-clock Republican love-fest that will otherwise dominate mainstream coverage during this convention. If the protests remain peaceful, and if the networks cover them, it will remind […]
I don't have a good feeling about the protest demonstrations that have already commenced in the avenues of New York. I think people have the right to protest, and there are times when they almost have the obligation…but I'm not sure I understand the goal here. Is the idea that the folks massing in the […]
I enjoyed watching Frazetta: Painting With Fire, a documentary on the great illustrator, Frank Frazetta, which is now turning up on the Indepedent Film Channel. (Next airings: September 7) The 105-minute film features interviews with a couple dozen artists and Frazetta friends and families, including Neal Adams, Dave Stevens, John Buscema, Bill Stout, Al Williamson […]
Last Friday evening, police in Toronto swooped down on a comic book convention, closed down one booth and arrested its operators…and not, like you might imagine, for selling Groo. Here are the details. […]
Comic book Superheroes can survive all sorts of attempts on their lives when in magazines and graphic novels but they often don't fare so well when someone tries to adapt them into animation. One notable exception — maybe the best attempt ever in television — has been the several (six, I think) shows from Warner […]
It won't do you a bit of good to know this since there are zero tickets left for the last few performances this weekend…but I had a wonderful time last night visiting Brigadoon. This is the Reprise! revival up at the Freud Playhouse up at U.C.L.A., which like all Reprise! revivals, re-creates some great musical […]
A fine comic artist named Stuart Immonen offers 50 Reasons To Stop Sketching At Conventions. […]
Speaking of spending money on DVDs of cartoons from the Warner vault — as I did, just the other day here — I neglected to mention the second volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, which comes out at the beginning of November. Not much hard sell needed here: More than 60 well-chosen, well-restored vintage […]