Kirby Krusade?
Reporter Heidi McDonald, who covers the comic book industry, covered the brief time that a street in Jack Kirby's old neighborhood was named for him and wonders what we have to do to make it permanent. […]
Author: Mark Evanier
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FACT CHECK: Catching Up
Glenn Kessler, who must have been away on vacation because it's not like no politicians have said anything false for the last week or two, reviews some of the things Trump and his mob have been saying about the B.B.B. that do not correspond to what's actually in the B.B.B. Daniel Dale of CNN lists […]
A Brief Comment
I haven't seen the new Superman movie. I seem to have fallen off the list of people who've worked for DC Comics — which I've only done since around 1970 — who get invited to premieres. So I can't say if it's "too woke," which is a complaint I see online a lot today. The […]
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Where Are They Now?
Remember this guy? That's Jon "Bowzer" Bauman of the retro rock group, Sha Na Na. What's he doing now? Well, he was a game show host for a while and he occasionally does "oldies" shows. But he has a new main profession and you won't believe what it is. […]
Street of Dreams
Not King Cole's
Cole's French Dip is a restaurant located on East 6th Street in downtown Los Angeles. Its proprietors has just announced they're goin' outta business and a lot of Angelenos who probably haven't set foot in the place in decades — if ever — are lamenting its demise. It is commonly referred to as "the Oldest […]
Kirby Korner
Jack Kirby was born on Essex Street in New York in 1917 and spent much of his early life trying to get away from those poor surroundings. His superhuman work ethic and talent got him out but those were developed in part through his involvement with the Boys Brotherhood Republic, an organization that helped many […]
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Dick Cavett visits the closet at the Criterion Video offices… […]
From the E-Mailbag…
A note from my pal Mark Waid about this ASK me entry… If I may offer: There's another, lesser reason why additional inkers who stepped in for a last-minute save (particularly at Marvel in the '70s, but certainly elsewhere) sometimes weren't credited: as a general rule, the lettering — and, thus, the anticipated credits — […]
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There's a local band that specializes in TV show themes and they call themselves The Remotes. In honor of the $1.20 residual check I just received from my writing contributions to this series, here's their rendition of the title tune from The Love Boat… […]
ASK me: Ghost Artists
Dave Hockner asks me the following question… I saw on Facebook where you were explaining about an issue of Thor where the inking was credited to Vince Colletta but the last few pages were actually inked by John Verpoorten. How does this kind of thing happen and why didn't John Verpoorten get a credit on […]
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Buster Keaton was one of the greatest comedians and filmmakers in the world until around 1929 or 1930. His work and his life took terrible nosedives then due to problems in his personal relationships, the consumption of alcohol, financial mismanagement, the coming of "talkies' and the decision to leave his own independent production company and […]
From the E-Mailbag…
One of those folks who opts to remain nameless — to you, not to me — read this post here and then sent this my way. But before I get to it, lemme warn you: This is going to be long and it'll get kinda sappy and most of you are smart enough to know […]
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I used to post a lot of Stephen Sondheim interviews on this blog but eventually, I would come across one online and not be sure if I'd linked to it before…and then I'd decide to not post it because I wasn't sure. Here's one I'm pretty sure has never been posted here before… […]