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The New York Times, which has never carried regular comic strips, ran a feature last Friday called “See You in the Funny Papers.” Credit for bringing this to my attention goes to my well-read friend Morris.
The Times being the way it is, access to the article may be iffy, so here it is. Please note that the illustration above is of Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend by Winsor McCay, which has been featured twice already in this blog, here and here.
Lately, the fun in the Sunday comics hasn’t been in the strips, which are mostly mediocre, but with a comic-book that’s being inserted with the flyers. It features reprints of the earliest Spider-Man stories by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
Each comic is 16 pages total, the printing quality is excellent and, hey, they’re free! This nifty promotion is from SmartSource, the coupon distributor. To see a list of all the participating newspapers, click here.
My first favorite cartoon character was Popeye. Here’s Popeye finding himself in the totally incomprehensible world of today’s animated offerings.
This is a YouTube™ video, so if the area above is blank, don’t blame me!
[flv:/Movies/Wordpress/Oct06/pillows.flv 440 330]
Eric has us watching a totally bizarre, edgy and over-the-top 6-show series called FLCL. The most accessible thing about it for me is the music by The Pillows.
The video is a catchy Pillows song from FLCL called “Ride on Shooting Star.” Use the embedded audio player to hear the song with much better sound, in stereo.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Sounds/Wordpress/Japan/Pillows.mp3]See a previous post for two trailers to the Animé title, The Place Promised in Our Early Days.
Here are two scenes from the movie that I’ve spliced together. Note: the bit rate is pushed up to 700 Kbps. We’re giving this one ★★★★★ (OK, who sees five red stars here and who sees something else?). Thanks go again to honorable son Eric for putting it on the Netflix queue!
Click the thumbnail picture to see how the video in the previous post appears in my local media player when I click the “Player problem” link. I’d love to get playlists to appear in the embedded videos as they do in the standalone player, but so far no luck.
