One day back in 1967, I was home from school with the flu and to pass the time, I decided to write some letters to comic book letter pages. This, of course, was back when comic books had letter pages. Back when they did, I sent in a lot of letters and amazingly (for a […]
My friend Carolyn was just reading this here weblog and she pointed out a funny typo that I made which I'm not going to correct. In the previous message here, I referred to a certain candy bar as "Three Mouseketeers." That's wrong. Actually, the candy bar I never liked was named "Three Musketeers" — and […]
I have 18 messages from people who claim they love candy corn. These people lie. […]
At the risk of coming off like the Ebenezer Scrooge of a different holiday, I have to say: I really don't like Halloween and never have. Even as a kid, the idea of dressing up and going from house to house to collect candy struck me as enormously unpleasant. I did it a few times […]
Over at Comic Book Resources, Budjette Tan is beginning a series on the Filipino comic book artists who flooded into the U.S. industry in the seventies. Here's a link to Part One. […]
Over at the N.P.R. site, we find an interview with Gary Larson, cartoonist of The Far Side. […]
Here are two more messages on this subject of whether you have to be dead to get on a postage stamp and if so, for how long. This first one comes from someone who signs his message, "MichaelRbn"… I think the reason for the timing of the ten year rule is actually pretty simple. If […]
Michael Kinsley writes a rebuttal to the rebuttal. […]
I'm getting a lot of e-mail about this stamp thing. Here's a message from John Hedegor who seems to know what he's talking about… I have been reading with interest your items concerning postage stamps that seemed to represent waivers to the rule that people have to be dead for ten years before their likenesses […]
Kenny Ausubel discusses how certain politicians spin anti-environmental policies to make them seem pro-environment. […]
Here's a rebuttal to Michael Kinsley's earlier article on stem-cell research. […]
If you're interested in the art of lettering comic books, there are a number of articles and interviews over at Richard Starkings' Balloon Tales site. Of particular note should be this roundtable discussion in which a number of industry professionals discuss whether comics should be lettered in upper and lower case or ALL CAPS. […]
According to this report, there are people out there who are complaining that the new Looney Tunes DVD doesn't include such fave WB cartoons as One Froggy Evening and What's Opera, Doc? This is a silly criticism, and one that I suspect is not as widely-held as the news report would have us believe. […]
Here at news from me, we wander from topic to topic. We started talking about the new Dr. Seuss postage stamp and now I'm printing the following from my pal, Rick Scheckman… Another non-President who did not wait ten years to be on a postage stamp was Dag Hammarskjold. Dag was at the time of […]
A couple of folks have written to remind me that the U.S. Postal Service made an exception to their rule that a non-president had to be dead ten years to be on a stamp. The exception they all mention was Walter Elias Disney, who passed away in 1966 and had his mug on a 6-cent […]