SKIDOO: Ralph Kramden on Acid
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No really. I saw SKIDOO, the long suppressed all-star Otto Preminger bacchanal, thanks to Mark Evanier and circumstance, and you must see it...
The Beat’s Annual News Survey, 2008 Edition–Part 1
It's here! The Beat's annual survey of comics professionals, journalists and respected hangers on covering the biggest events of 2007 and where they think...
Benazir Bhutto bought comics
We refrain from too much current events here, but the continuing story of the death of Benazir Bhutto has a tiny little comic book...
Anecdotes #1
We attended a nice holiday party last night thrown by artist Kelli Bickman and jill-of-all-trades Paulette Powell. It was just a bunch of folks...
Ride the Blog Flume
Tim Hensley, Jonathan Bennett, Todd Hignite, Alvin Buenaventura and Ken Parille have united for a new blog called simply Blog Flume. Thus far they...
CrossGen– what might have been
Our recap of the Z-Cult affair for PWCW yesterday had this quote from Todd Allen:
"There is a very real possibility that torrents, effectively...
More Comics and Games Retailer memories
The other day we mentioned the cancellation of the retailer giveaway mag COMICS & GAMES RETAILERS. Former editor John Jackson Miller has his own...
READ: ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
You can spend hours and hours and hours pouring through the wonders at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, a vast resource of information on...
The Anniversarty Party
A big huzzah to Comicraft, who just celebrated their 15th Anniversary. We talked to Richard Starkings a few years ago for our first book...
Stan at CAPS vid
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Via Mark Evanier. Shot by Lee Hester.
Paul Norris 1914-2007
Mark Evanier reports the death of Paul Norris, the co-creator of Aquaman.
Ohio-born Norris studied art before ending up at DC in 1940:
A year...
