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Here's another magic lesson from one of my favorite card handlers. This is Daniel Roy showing you the art of palming… […]
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Signs of Las Vegas #1
I often on this site talk about my fondness and interest for "old Las Vegas," which has prompted a few folks to write in and ask what "old Las Vegas" is and how it differs from current Las Vegas. Old Las Vegas had big stars at affordable prices, cheap food, cheaper morals, better gambling, loads […]
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Hey, do you remember when The Beatles starred on a Saturday morning cartoon show? I do and I recall it as having real cheap animation but fast-moving and clever scripts along with (of course) some real good music. My pal Jack Mendelsohn, who I mentioned here the other day, was one of the writers and […]
Yogi Alert
It's two weeks until Thanksgiving and MeTV Toons has already been running Christmas specials. This coming Saturday, they're offering up Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper, the third of three Yogi Bear Christmas shows that Hanna-Barbera made. The online MeTV Toons schedule says it's on at 5 PM but that may or may not be […]
ASK me: Stan and Ollie
A person who, as you'll see, wished to remain anonymous wrote the following… I'm shy so I'd be happier if my name stayed out of it. I decided to take your advice on Tuesday evening, take my mind off current events and, I watched Blotto. And, no kidding, I believe I've just watched my first […]
Standing O's
Michael Paulson discusses how audiences seem to be overdoing it with standing ovations. The main problem I have with them is the same problem I have with the words "legend" or "legendary" which now seem to be applied to just about everyone and everything. I happened upon a clip of Andy Richter on The Masked […]
ASK me: Two More Questions
Corey Liss sent these two queries… I've heard that, at the beginning of his career, Jack Kirby worked briefly for Will Eisner in the Eisner/Iger shop. Is that true? More generally, what was Kirby's take on Eisner's work? Did they ever talk or was it more like what you described with Carl Barks, two people […]
Today's Political Comment
I swear to you, I wasn't going to post another thing under that header for a while. I really am trying not to think a lot about the election and to instead focus on all this work I have to do. But it's beastly hard to go anywhere on the Internet without glimpsing a "How […]
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Time for the latest installment of Everything You Need To Know About Saturday Night Live. We're up to Season 16, nearing the end of what I thought was the best period for the show after the initial five years… […]
About Bob
Andrew Farago did a deep dive into the life of our friend, the late Bob Foster. Well worth your time to read. […]
Border Crossings – Part 9
This is the long-delayed Part 9 of a series about Western Publishing and Gold Key Comics. Even if you followed this series many months ago when the previous installments appeared, you still may need to refresh your memory, which you can do by re-reading Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part […]
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Have you ever seen Andy Huggins do stand-up? Well, I guess with him, it's sit-down but he's a funny guy either way… […]
You Don't Know Jack
Comedy writer and cartoonist Jack Mendelsohn was a good buddy of mine. We presented him with the Bill Finger Award in 2014 and then sadly, just three years later, I had to write this obit of him. In there, there's a video of him accepting the Finger. I just came across this interview online that […]
Today's Political Comment
You probably won't see much of that header here in the coming weeks. Trump and his gang are passing into the category of "Things I don't like but I can't do anything about at the moment." Before last Tuesday, there was about a three-hundred-and-thirty-millionth of a percent chance that I could contribute, if not to […]
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Voice Guy Brian Hull has appeared in dozens of cartoons and — more important — on a couple of my Cartoon Voices panels at conventions. Here, he and many of the characters that live in his head and throat favor us with a rendition of "Defying Gravity" from Wicked. An amazing talent… […]