William Ray sent me a link to this real estate listing. Someone is selling 196 Furnace Dock Road in Cortlandt Manor, NY and they're asking $5.5 million for the place. What's so special about it? Well, apart from its unusual "space age" design, it was owned for a time by Jackie Gleason before he decided to […]
This year marks 75 years since Mort Walker's Beetle Bailey debuted on the comic strip pages and there's a new book out celebrating its long, long run. You can order that book here and while you're Amazoning, you can also place an advance order for the book that's coming out next month celebrating 75 years […]
There are certain questions I receive over and over even after I've written about them on this blog. Here's one from Robert Rowe… I saw your name mentioned as having been featured as a character in a story in The Flash #195 from 1970. What are your recollections of the event? Was it only editor […]
Very sad this morning to hear of the unexpected/sudden death of Philippe Vidal-Dumas (aka Philippe Vidal) at the age of 64. He was a giant in the French animation industry and a very nice, talented man who I had the honor of working with on five seasons of The Garfield Show. I was the Supervising […]
Here's Weird Al Yankovic with the definitive cover version of one of Paul Simon's best songs… […]
Here's the latest installment of this series. Hard to believe the guys who've been assembling these for so long and putting in such effort and passion are just now almost at the halfway mark… […]
A loyal follower of this blog made a hefty (and much appreciated) donation last night and asked that in return, I rerun this story. Okay, fine. We all have things we're willing to do for money…which, come to think of it, is kind of the theme of this story. It took place years ago when […]
Happy Anniversary of the day of his birth to Sergio Aragonés Domenech, otherwise known as Sergio Aragonés without the Domenech, otherwise known aa That Guy Who Draws Tiny Cartoons In The Margins Of MAD Magazine, otherwise known as the creator of Groo the Wanderer, otherwise known as My Best Friend (male division) for 50+ Years! […]
We like just about everything about Audra McDonald… […]
The next few days, you're not gonna see a ton o' posts here as I deal with a couple o' matters that wouldn't interest any of you in the slightest. There'll be some content but not much and as usual, I'll make up for slacking off by slacking on. If "slacking on" isn't an acceptable […]
The previous post here — my advice delivered a long, long time ago to a new writer in the comic book world having numerous deadline problems — brought this message from my pal Tom Galloway… So what happened with him? Did he manage to overcome those first impressions of lateness or did he have to […]
I've rerun this before but it's been ten years since the last time so it's overdue. … For a few months now, I've been in private correspondence with a gent who's fairly new to the art 'n' craft of writing comic books. He's sold a number of things and seen them published…and he'd hoped that […]
I think I've said here somewhere that Mary Tyler Moore was my first TV crush. On reflection, she wasn't. An extraordinary lady named Shari Lewis was. I was heavy into puppets and ventriloquism in my youth and there on my TV was Shari — an adorable female who could do both. For a time, she […]
Jay Leno, who lately is looking very weary and old in his recent appearances, made some statements lately about late night TV maybe being too political. Online folks are jumping all over him for these remarks, often suggesting they were his response to the cancelation of Stephen Colbert's show. In fact, they were made before […]
A number of interesting things happened in the month of June, 1962. For instance, Marvel brought out Amazing Fantasy #15 (the first appearance of Spider-Man), Journey Into Mystery #83 (the first appearance of Thor) and Tales to Astonish #35 (first Ant-Man). At the time, I think I was more interested in what was happening with […]