Matt Drudge is claiming to have uncovered a transcript of General Wesley Clark making the case for the Iraq War before Congress. Over on his weblog, Joshua Micah Marshall points out that Drudge's quote is an outta-context excerpt from a much longer speech that went in other directions. I'm not sure why it's such a […]
Ben Varkentine just e-mailed me about a review he posted of the new book, Against the Grain: Mad Artist Wallace Wood. This reminded me that I'd forgotten to finish a series of recommendations of new books about great comic artists. This is just such a book. In all my days of being around comic fans […]
Here's a good one. Thanks to Marvin Silbermintz, I have discovered the American Newspaper Repository Gallery. Do you like the illustrations one sees in old newspapers? Then you'll like this site. […]
Bang the horn! Blow the drum! A nagging void on the Internet has at long last been filled with the arrival of The Official Pogo Website, located freeway close over at the easy-to-remember address of www.pogopossum.com. As everyone with an I.Q. higher than their neck measurement is well aware, Walt Kelly's Pogo was one of […]
I just received a very official-looking e-mail from the Citibank company saying there has been fraud on my credit card and possibly my checking account, as well. It asks that I log in immediately to verify my information. Only problem: I don't bank with Citibank. I never have in any way. Closer examination of the […]
Here's an interview with Cullen Murphy, who is the editor of the Atlantic Monthly…but we don't care about that. What we care about is that in his spare time, he writes the Prince Valiant newspaper strip, drawn by his father. (Thanks to Craig Robin for the link.) […]
Last year at the Comic-Con International in San Diego, I hosted a panel with Ray Bradbury, Forrest Ackerman and Julius Schwartz. If you were in the room, you heard Mr. Bradbury talk about an article he had just completed for Playboy on why we must renew our commitment to manned space travel. It's in the […]
Here's what Mr. Letterman was talking about last night on his show. The graphic below appeared on the CBS website for the last week or so, plugging Sunday night's People's Choice Awards. As you can see, it shows the smiling face of Jay Leno who, along with Dave, was nominated in the Best Talk Show […]
Scott Shaw! offers us a nice profile/autobio of Willie Ito, a great cartoonist and a heckuva nice guy. The occasion is an Oddball Comics salute to the Beany & Cecil comic book, which wasn't particularly oddball. But hey, it's a great excuse to talk about Willie. […]
The Supreme Court today declined to intervene in the legal brawl between comic book creator Todd McFarlane and hockey star Tony Twist. Here's a news story that doesn't say much more than that. This is not unexpected. The High Court only agrees to hear about 1% of all the cases brought before it. (Keep that […]
Over in Salon, Eric Boehlert says that the media is starting to do the same thing to Howard Dean that they did to Al Gore. […]
Robert Spina sent me this link to a piece in The Cincinnati Enquirer about how they're deciding which newspaper strips to drop and which ones to add. […]
Two more points about movie credits. One is that as a couple of correspondents noted, many animated features are not covered by the WGA and some of them have been known to either list many writers or to credit someone as writer who, rumor has it, never wrote anything. This whole business of the Writers […]
According to this article in The New York Times (which you may have to register to read), the end credits for The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King run 9 minutes and 33 seconds. They don't say how many names that involves but the previous Lord of the Rings movie (with apparently a […]
About the time O.J. Simpson was arrested, I made what was probably a brilliant decision. I make so few that I remember them all. I decided not to follow the case for a while. I could see that the scenario had the potential to be all-consuming, offering up an excess of entertainment and frustrating emotion, […]