A 1991 Frazetta drawing depicting Tarzan doing the Dum-Dum with his dance buddies.
The Conan painting by Frazetta that was up for auction recently, sold for twelve MILLION, five hundred THOUSAND dollars, when including the Heritage “Buyer’s Premium.”
Trump takes the next step towards declaring martial law to prevent the midterm elections.
“We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.”
If that latest outrage makes it difficult to relax, watch this.
One of those may not be enough, if you’re trying to get to sleep.
Now you can experience what I did at the National Cartoonists Society Awards Dinner. Minus the dinner. 😉
The video will start when Colleen took the stage to present two awards. As Colleen correctly implied, comic book people are typically more familiar with comic strips than comic strip people are familiar with comic books.
Last Monday, I was on a ZOOM call with members of the National Cartoonists Society. One of the participants was MAD Magazine artist Sam Viviano. Seeing Sam reminded me of this new documentary about MAD.
It’s currently available on Amazon to rent for five bucks, or purchase for only $7. CHEAP!
https://www.amazon.com/When-Went-MAD-Alan-Bernstein/dp/B0F22GNGJ5
But it’s also available to view for free on Hoopla.
https://www.hoopladigital.com/
Hoopla is an online digital library that requires just three things to join:
Early in the documentary, the claim is made that M.C. Gaines, father of MAD publisher Bill Gaines, had a hand in how Superman was first published. Here is some historical background.
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/maxwell-charles-gaines-the-man-who-rejected-superman-in-1936/
I’m pleased to be wrong about Jimmy Kimmel not returning to ABC-TV. He’ll be at his usual spot tomorrow night. If he’s going to make a change to his show, it should be bringing up the lights on his set. It’s as dark as the Batcave.
Did you like that AI Batman clip? Here’s another one.
On Facebook, the MAGA trolls were repeating Trump’s taunts about Kimmel’s network TV ratings, with reportedly about 1.5 million regular viewers. What they’re missing is that he has 20 million followers on YouTube.
* “An Immelmann turn was a maneuver used after an attack on another aircraft to reposition the attacking aircraft for another attack.”
That’s a preview of a very interesting bit of Japanese animation history. The complete video can’t be embedded. Here’s a link.
