Screen Gems
I'm really enjoying a new website by Pietro Shakarian. It's devoted to the Columbia Cartoon Studios, a much-neglected producer of theatrical animation. Go there now. […]
Author: Mark Evanier
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Groo News
Every e-mail check these days brings an inquiry or two about when we can expect to see the next new tale of Groo the Wanderer, the long-running idiot comic character by Sergio Aragonés and Yours Truly. The answer requires that I explain that Sergio and I have been busy with a couple of projects, individually […]
Recommended Reading
Here's Frank Rich with a piece called "The Festering Vietnam Culture War." […]
Bush Bounty
Garry Trudeau gets into the issue of George W. Bush's National Guard service. And puts his money where his mouth is. […]
Recommended Reading…er, Viewing
Mark Fiore does wonderful little animated online political cartoons all the time. But this one, which reveals "The Gay Agenda," struck me as uncommonly on-target. (You do have Shockwave installed on your computer, I trust.) […]
In the Limelight…
As a kid, I listened to a lot of records over and over, but mainly records that were both funny and musical, like the output of Stan Freberg and Allan Sherman. And often I listened to the folk-singing trio known as The Limeliters. When they tried to be serious, they weren't all that different from […]
Announcer Announcement
Here is the link to the press release announcing that "Stuttering John" Melendez will be Jay Leno's new announcer, effective March 29. In my first post on this, I suggested this was a bad idea…and I guess I still think that. But I also reminded myself that I don't like it when folks "review" a […]
Recommended Reading
If you'd like to know more about the battle between Michael Eisner and Roy Disney for control of the Disney empire, this New York Times article will tell you plenty. […]
Ego Posting
The current issue of Written By, a magazine published by the Writers Guild, has a one-page article about me, much of which consists of quotes from this website, accompanied by a photo from when I was about nine. I am not suggesting you plunk down money for this issue, at least because of that. But […]
Bill Oakley, R.I.P.
One of the best letterers in comics, Bill Oakley, died last Monday…from cancer, I am told. I never met Bill but he lettered a few comics I wrote and I always admired his work. This link will take you to a page in his hometown newspaper with a brief obit. (Thanks to Tom Hegeman.) […]
Justice Denied
During the second O.J. Simpson trial, and especially after as we heard more about what had transpired, I became a big fan of Daniel Petrocelli. He was the lead lawyer representing the Goldmans. He was the guy who won the case, essentially by doing everything right. Like Petrocelli, the prosecutors in the first trial had […]
Hollywood Union News
The leaderships of the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA have agreed to a one-year extension of their current contract with the AMPTP. In other words, instead of hammering out a new three-year contract before the June 30 deadline, the actors and producers have made a one-year deal which makes minor improvements to the contract, thereby […]
Round, Round…
The Spirograph was a great toy, at least for around a half-hour. After that, you had dozens of neat-looking kaleidoscope drawings and there was really nothing you could do with them..though one time, a fine comic book artist named Ernie Colón incorporated Spirograph designs into a story he drew for Creepy.. Anyway, you know where […]
They Blinded Him With Science
Another of the many issues we're going to hear about in this Election Year is this one: That the Bush Administration has repeatedly ignored the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community when its findings interfered with their political goals. When someone reports something that does not conform to their worldview, that report has to be […]
Recommended Reading
James Fallows argues that the U.S. commitment to Iraq is exhausting our military resources. I don't know if the situation is as bleak as this article makes it out to be, but I bet we hear more about this. […]