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.”
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.
Nothing special for #100, just a random doodle.
Two more 1950’s Terrytoons with Jim Tyer’s unique brand of wackiness mixed in with the more conventional work of other animators.
Several generations of Terrytoons employees came to know Paul Terry’s oft-repeated motto: “Disney is the Tiffany’s in this business, and I am the Woolworth’s.”
Of Mice and Magic, A History of American Animated Cartoons, by Leonard Maltin – Revised and Updated Edition, 1980
