Tommy José Stathes is an animation film collector, curator and historian. A few months before the panic of pandemic lockdown, I attended a very enjoyable and entertaining presentation by Stathes. The event was sponsored by Paul Howley’s comics and collectibles store, That’s Entertainment in Worcester, MA. The New York Times has this profile of Tommy.
I think [“Somewhere in Dreamland”] helped me to better understand and connect with the inner children in my own grandparents, all of whom were born right around the time of the 1929 stock market crash and grew up during the Great Depression.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/nyregion/stathes-vintage-cartoons.html
Tommy has posted “Somewhere in Dreamland” on his YouTube channel.
Fun fact about my friend Paul Howley. We were introduced almost 50 years ago at a Christian youth gathering that was held at Freedom Farm, in Bolton, MA. My girlfriend Karen thought I’d like to meet him because of our mutual interest in comic books. After many years as a Christian fellowship ministry, the Freedom Farm property was sold and it’s now a commercial operation.
My all-time best story about troubleshooting a problem at work involved Karen. I’ll have to tell it sometime.