Recommended Reading
Here's the latest article by Seymour Hersh on the prison scandal. No matter what your view is of it all, Hersh is at the center of this story so you might as well see what he has to say. […]
Author: Mark Evanier
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Briefly Noted…
To all who've volunteered to tape the show tomorrow for Sergio, my thanks. I have someone recording it. […]
Gill Fox, R.I.P.
Longtime artist and editor Gill Fox died this morning after several months of illness. Fox was born November 29, 1919 and started his professional career with a brief stint at the Max Fleischer cartoon studio. Labor unrest drove him away from that industry and into the then-new field of comic books where he drew for […]
Something I Hadn't Known
I'm watching On the Record With Bob Costas and they're doing a segment on the anniversary of the movie, Airplane. Co-director Jim Abrahams just mentioned that David Letterman screen-tested for the role of Ted Stryker, the hero ultimately played by Robert Hays. Does anyone think the movie would have worked with him in that role? […]
P.S. on Lichtenstein
Robert Spina writes… I couldn't help but notice you expressed no opinion of the "rightness" or "wrongness" of how Lichtenstein made his living. Or if "right" and "wrong" even apply here. It has always bothered me that Lichtenstein seemingly made his greatest fortune on the backs of some of the most talented, yet underpaid and […]
Popular Culture
Beginning in the late fifties, Roy Lichtenstein became famous for what some later called "pop art" paintings, many of which were enlarged comic book panels. Over at this site, a gent named David Barsalou displays some of the results of a long-term research project, which was to find the original source material for Lichtenstein's paintings. […]
Sergio on TV
This is really just for folks in or around San Francisco. My partner, master cartoonist Sergio Aragonés will be interviewed on the local TV series, Latin Eyes, this coming Sunday, May 16. The show airs on KRON, Channel 4, twice that day…at 10 AM and again at Midnight. It's all themed to Latin American viewers […]
Fair Warning
Whatever you do, if you value your sanity, do not click on this link. […]
Working a Head
As you may know, comic strips are drawn well in advance of publication and the Sunday sections are drawn even farther ahead of the dailies. The Sunday sections are also usually printed well in advance. As a result, on Sunday, May 23, Doonesbury is in the unfortunate situation of having a strip that involves a […]
Today's Political Rant
I'm going to try to write one post about the Abu Ghraib/Nick Berg comparison, then put it all out of my mind for the rest of the day. I think whether you are for this war or against it, you have to put up with having things shoved in your face that seem to prove […]
WGA Info
If anyone would like to know how far apart the Writers Guild is from a deal with the Producers, here's a chart that shows the current offers on the table. […]
Political Stuff
A number of folks have called my attention to this posting over on one of my favorite Internet stops, Joshua Micah Marshall's Talking Points Memo. It may remind you a lot of…well, of the previous post on my site here. One reader of this site recommended I read James S. Robbins on "Comparative Barbarism." I […]
We Get Letters…
Here's part of an e-mail I got this morning. I won't give the gent's name… Question: What do www.newsfromme.com blog entries and radical islamo-fascist newspapers have in common? Answer: A large number (10 seperate entries at last count) of articles on the abuse of muslim criminals at Abu Ghraib prison by relatively few US Army […]
Today's Political Rant
The other day, John Kerry got what must be the worst news he's had in a while: Pollster John Zogby is predicting that Kerry will win the presidency in November. Why is this bad news? Well, have you followed Zogby's track record? This is the man who in the New York Senate race of 2000 […]
Speaking of Great Voice Actors…
On this site, we have articles devoted to some of the great animation voice thespians, including Daws Butler, Mel Blanc and June Foray. Once a week or so, someone writes to ask, "When you are going to put up something about Paul Frees?" He was certainly in that category. In his day, he did as […]