Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson being credited during the 2020 Academy Awards? Incredible and wonderful.
Category: Comic Books
Sven Flintstone
Scott Shaw! (exclamation point included) is a professional cartoonist specializing in Hanna-Barbera characters, especially the Flintstones. A couple of weeks ago I did a favor for Scott by posting this video.
https://youtu.be/yy1uZqdF3wM
I’m a Svengoolie fan, and I record his MeTV show on my PC-DVR every Saturday, so it was easy for me to grab the segment with Sven’s shout-out to Scott. I was careful to include the action right before the break, so that Kerwyn’s joke made sense.
Spinning Out of Control
Trump thinks he’s superhuman, but he isn’t winning, he’s spinning, and all he’s succeeding in doing is trapping himself. I recall seeing something about that from a long time ago.
Batman’s right. Let’s not interfere with the process!
Eddie Muller on 4-Color Noir
Kudos to Eddie Muller for his Noir Alley introduction on Turner Classic Movies to “While the City Sleeps” (1956). Based on a novel where a serial killer was a religious fanatic, the film instead blamed the influence of comic books. Muller says, “I spent my entire youth, and a lot of my adult life, reading these… and it didn’t harm me one bit.”
For Fanboys Only
MAD Goes SKROINCH! FWAK! BWEEP!
The word is out that MAD Magazine will soon be no more. Two more new issues will be published, and then some reprints done up to finish off mail order subscriptions, and that’ll be the end.
This isn’t unexpected, of course, but it’s sad to see the disappearance of yet another formerly grand outlet for great cartooning. As a matter of historical note, MAD was the last remaining vestige of what had been Entertaining Comics.