The All-Star Companion, edited by Roy Thomas. End of review. Okay, I'll write a little more: I just got mine and I can't imagine a better look at a great — some would say, the greatest — comic book of the forties. Roy, Dr. Jerry Bails and a distinguished flock of experts have wrung out […]
Here's a referral I meant to mention earlier. We've recently seen a mess of Dr. Seuss parodies — some of them reviews of the new Grinch movie; others, variations on How the Bush Stole the Election. I've seen at least four versions of the latter…five, counting Bill Maher's on Politically Incorrect. The best one I […]
Stayed a few extra days in Vegas, saw a few more shows. Show prices are rising faster than Al Gore's vote total in Florida. Funniest thing I saw in Vegas since the previous funny thing: A memorabilia shop called Antiquities in the Caesars Palace mall is selling a hairpiece that they claim was worn by […]
Here we see Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, who are starring in the new stage version of Mel Brooks's The Producers, presently heading for Broadway by way of Chicago. That's a great movie and two terrific stage performers, and I have no idea if I think this is a sure-fire smash or a probable disaster, […]
Visiting Las Vegas I went to shows, attended the Video Software Dealers Association convention and got a lot of writing done on my laptop which, being almost a year old, is hopelessly obsolete. The V.S.D.A. con was a sparsely-attended bore. Almost as few people were in the audience when I saw my pal Pete Barbutti, […]
R.C. Harvey writes solid, incisive articles and books on comic art. You can read some of the former and order most of the latter at his website, which is reachable by clicking…oh, let's have you click right here. I don't want to slight his other works as I gush over his most recent release, which […]
Ooh! Ooh! It's amazing how many TV shows have spawned fan-concocted websites full of photos, facts and even audio/video downloads. I just happened on one for one of my favorite shows, Car 54, Where Are You? You can check it out by clicking here. And if you do and you're Jerry Beck or Scott Shaw!, […]
Had lunch yesterday with my buddy Dan Gheno. I've known Dan since around 1970 and watched him turn from a devout comic fan/letter column filler into a superb painter and art teacher who has been, among other achievements, recently cover-featured on American Artist. This is not to suggest he is not still a devout comic […]
Good morning, year! Spent this a.m. doing a global search-'n'-replace to change all the copyright notices on this site. My pal Nat Gertler pointed out (and I have fixed) garbled text in a couple of columns. In converting Microsoft Word files to HTML, a number of odd things have happened, here and there, including dropped […]
Happy year to come and let's all hope that none of the predictions of dire economy and Dubya incompetence come to pass. Here's a plug for a new CD by one of my favorite musical groups. Big Daddy is presently and sadly inactive, but a division of their former label, Rhino, has brought out The […]
The folks at Dark Horse Comics have just released the first of two volumes reprinting Little Annie Fanny, as created by Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder and friends, and published in Playboy Magazine. Perhaps needless to say, what once seemed risqué and adult is now about as naughty as the fart jokes on Bevis and Butthead. […]
Billy Barty's last TV appearance was on the E! True Hollywood Story profile on Sid and Marty Krofft that debuted on Christmas Eve. Billy died the day before, and Marty spent quite some time on the phone, trying and failing to locate someone at the E! Channel to ask that they insert some sort of […]
Have you seen those clever parody commercials the Eveready battery people have running on TV? The ones that are interrupted by the rabbit with the drum? Well, several of them give addresses for websites for the fictitious products. Like, there's the one for "Growzan," a new hair-grow medicine. The commercials, if you listen carefully, are […]
Okay I know, I know! For years now it seems, I've been answering the eternal question of when I was going to do this with, "I stand on my Constitutional right not to have a website." But since our Constitution doesn't seem to mean a lot lately, I figured it was about time I got […]