Window on the World
Wanna see what's happening in Times Square at this very moment? You can at Earthcam's Times Square webcam. If the site included the sickly sweet smell of honey-roasted nuts, it would be your complete New York experience. […]
Author: Mark Evanier
Posts by Mark Evanier
Miracle Man
And I just wrote the foreword for DC's forthcoming trade paperback of Jack Kirby's Mister Miracle. This will be the fourth collection of Jack's Fourth World series, this time reprinting #11-18 of Mister Miracle in, alas, black-and-white again. I don't think this is Jack's strongest work — his heart went out of the project when […]
Harry Shearer Stuff
While roaming about my harddisk the other day, I came across a file I downloaded a few years ago — a day-by-day diary of the second O.J. Simpson trial (the one he lost, the one with the wide-awake jury), kept by Harry Shearer. Engaged by Slate to cover the festivities, Shearer turned in one of […]
Monday Afternoon
Well it looks like Eric Boehlert was right about the XFL. The first week, its NBC Saturday night broadcasts notched a 10.3 rating (it started higher but declined throughout the evening). The second week, they were down to 5.1 which, at least, was still above the 4.5 guaranteed to advertisers. But the overnights for Week […]
Return From Sin City
Just back from another Vegas trip, mostly for recreation but also to get some work done. In case you haven't been there lately, the new trend in gaming is for "name" slot machines, themed around TV shows. Some are based on game shows, like Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, and I lost an entire two […]
Buncha Stuff
A couple of folks have written to say they wish I had more here on The Dick Van Dyke Show. So do I, so do I. In the meantime, while I write something else, you might want to check out the website of Vince Waldron. Vince, who I think owes me a lunch or maybe […]
Not the Brightest Lady
Elsewhere on this site, you'll find an article that I wrote about a great, unsung cartoonist named Owen Fitzgerald. (Oh, hell…I'll save you the trouble of searching for it. Here's a link.) I just stumbled across a neat website run by an animation artist named Shane Glines. He calls it The Cartoon and Illustration Paradise […]
Friday Evening
One of my best buddies, Paul Dini, is among those highly-responsible for some fine cartoon shows that have emanated from Warner Brothers Animation, lo these last few years. More recently, he has combined his two main interests in life — Christmas and Women Who Mean Trouble — to create Jingle Belle, daughter of Santa and […]
Pale(y) Imitations
Every March the Museum of Television and Radio in Beverly Hills stages its annual William S. Paley Television Festival. For two weeks, great TV shows of the past and present are saluted with presentations — one per evening — that feature the stars and makers of those shows. In years past, I've attended some wonderful […]
Do-It-Yourself
I've been playing with a free software program that was written by a fan of newspaper strips. It's called WinComics and the way it works is that you pick your favorite current strips from a list in its setup program…then you run the main program and it logs into various syndicates' sites and downloads today's […]
The Hardest Working Man in Comics
Since around the time of the Louisiana Purchase, I've been collaborating with Sergio Aragonés on comic books of a very silly nature, many of them issues of Groo the Wanderer. About 90% of these have featured superb coloring by the talented and brave Tom Luth. Why "brave?" Because coloring Sergio's ornate, well-populated work is like […]
The Big Game
I have about as little interest in football as you could have on a subject, but I sometimes like to follow ratings games. It is only on that basis that I'm intrigued by what will happen with the new XFL venture. Eric Boehlert wrote a piece for Salon that argued that it can't possibly succeed…and […]
Plugs
If you're in the market for tapes of old TV shows, then by all means check out www.kinevideo.net. It's run by a fine gent named Bruce Simon who I've known since around '67. He was a charter member of the infamous Los Angeles Comic Book Club, which I've written about many times in my column…but […]
Hollywood Labor News
Based on a couple of conversations over the weekend, I'm going to slightly revise my statement about a possible WGA strike and move in the direction of cautious optimism. From what I hear, they are talking, and seriously — which has not been the norm in any Hollywood labor negotiations for quite some time. We […]
Hollywood Labor News
The Writers Guild website — www.wga.org — is currently featuring a funny article by Steve Martin about the "possessory credit" that is an issue in the pending WGA strike. You'll also find the writers' side — and therefore, the correct side, as far as we're concerned around here — of other issues in the current […]