Men At Work
I'm doing some remodelling of this weblog this weekend. At times, it may look odd or even be unavailable…but all should be normal before long. […]
Author: Mark Evanier
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The New York Times has been wrong about a number of things lately. So have most of our news sources but unlike the others, the Times sometimes admits it. Here, the editors apologize for insisting that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction. […]
Recommended Reading
Garry Trudeau, the guy behind Doonesbury, has a cover-featured interview in the current Rolling Stone. He does not speak well of his old fellow classmate, George W. Bush. Here's an excerpt from the piece and here's a news story that summarizes a little of what he said. […]
Relative Error
In 1996, I wrote the foreword to a collection of Li'l Abner comic strip reprints. It was an article about the 1959 Li'l Abner movie based on the musical stage production. In it, I mentioned an actress named Wynne Miller, who replaced Edie Adams on Broadway in the role of Daisy Mae, and I said […]
Fine Figures
Haven't mentioned it lately but I have been enormously impressed by the little maquettes (or statues or whatever you call them) that come from a company named Electric Tiki Design. In the past, I've been burned by figurines that, once you get them, never look quite as fine as they did in the catalog or […]
Weather Report
The folks at the National Weather Service are revising their forecast for San Diego from July 22 through July 25. This is when a lot of us will be there for the Comic-Con International and it looks like it'll be at least 80 degrees most days, with lows between 65 and 70. And I'll bet […]
Extreme Marx
As we predicted here, Universal Home Video is bringing out a boxed DVD set of the five Marx Brothers movies they control — Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers and Duck Soup. It's called The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection and it comes out in early November with a list price of $59.98, which […]
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If you think some politicians do a bad job of defending their past actions, you should have seen Wolf Blitzer being grilled on last night's installment of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. I'll post a link to the clip if and when they put it up on the Comedy Central website…but if you can […]
Listen, Bud…
As I mentioned early this morning, the DVD set of the 1967 Spider-Man cartoons came out without the special features. However, there's an interesting special feature that was separately prepared for the Internet by some of the voice actors who worked on that series. It tells you who they were, how they were cast, what […]
A Number of Folks
A number of folks have written to ask me what I thought of the recently-released Garfield movie. I think I haven't had time to see it yet. A number of folks have written to ask me what I think of a new biography of Jack Kirby called Tales to Astonish, written by a gent who […]
The Draft Is Back!
Time to sign up! […]
Secret Report
The report of the Select Committee on Intelligence is full of redactions and omissions, but there are a lot of interesting things left. Here's a link to a fully-searchable Adobe PDF file of it. […]
Stop Stan Lee!
If you surf political websites, as I do when I need to get away from the more realistic worlds of comic books and animation, you may come across ads that say "Stop Stan Lee!" These have nothing to do with the Editor Emeritus of Marvel Comics. There's a very Conservative Republican State Senator in Kentucky […]
The Cat's Coming!
We're about two weeks from the official release of the DVD set of Garfield and Friends, Volume One, and reviews (like this one) are beginning to appear. I wrote almost everything on this set…which is not, by the way, the first season. There are 24 half-hours on this new DVD release. We did 13 half-hours […]
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If you haven't seen this yet, take a few minutes and enjoy a clever bit of Flash animation and political humor. It's a parody of "This Land Is Your Land…" performed by Mssrs. Bush and Kerry. And it's awfully good. […]