Not so much late breaking news as just late, as this item is from a few days ago.
Disney Vs. Ditko Ends
After more than two years, Disney and subsidiary Marvel have reached a settlement with the estate of acclaimed comic book artist Steve Ditko.
https://deadline.com/2023/12/marvel-court-termination-disney-spider-man-dr-strange-1234843941/
Martin Landau was a cartoonist at The New York Daily News before deciding on a career switch to acting.
Landau played James Mason’s assistant in Alfred Hitchcock’s infinitely re-watchable North by Northwest. Warners has generously made the first ten delightful minutes of the movie available. Look for Robert Shayne, who was Inspector Henderson in The Adventures of Superman.
Doreen Lang played Cary Grant’s secretary Maggie. She is also in Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man from a few years earlier.
Hitchcock and Landau during the filming of North by Northwest.
Hitch, being something of a cartoonist himself, drew the famous self-portrait he used in the opening of his TV anthology series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
As mentioned here not too long ago, Gannett/USA Today has standardized the selection of comic strips its member papers can use. By chance, last Sunday’s local Gannett paper included a surprise. In addition to the regular comics, shown on the left, there was the comics section for the Burlington Free Press, on the right.
And lookee at that. Burlington has four pages of Sunday comics, with the first two pages being identical to my local edition.
The long, slow withdrawal from printed newspapers in general, and syndicated comic strips in particular, continues. It’s just a little bit less painful in Vermont.
Bugs Bunny in a very atypical, compromised position.
Jimmy Johnson (the cartoonist, not the race car driver) has the bit between his teeth and he’s starting to make some progress on fixing his WordPress installation. I know what he’s going through!
You got that right, Cap!
