Category: Cartooning

Colleen to the Rescue!

Did Colleen find the missing Mitch McConnell?

No, it’s Super-Turtle, worn out from helping to replenish America’s nearly depleted stock of long-range missiles.

I’m getting packed for the annual NCS meeting and awards dinner in Columbus. I’ll post when/if I can from there.

I have a gift for Colleen that I know she will appreciate. Joe Sinnott’s illustrated life of Pope John XXIII, a work that he was rightly very proud of.

Superestorations

This collection of the seventeen Fleischer/Famous Studios Superman cartoons appears to have been ripped from the Warner Bros. Blu-ray release, rather than being a fan’s AI restoration of Warner’s earlier DVD release.

By coincidence, the first cartoon in the playlist, ‘Showdown’, happens to be the first one I recall seeing as a child, in black & white. This link shows the playlist, which is something that YouTube’s embedded player used to do.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOkQQ2CR4rZw

For sticklers, here is the correct order for the titles, listed by their release dates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(1940s_animated_film_series)#List_of_films

Late for the End Times

Somehow, until now I hadn’t watched the 2019 Amazon Prime 6-episode adaptation of Good Omens, the 1990 novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. At heart, it’s a very entertaining and amusing bromance, with exquisite production quality. The actors were quite obviously having a very good time.

I wanted to watch the series because this week I’ll be seeing Colleen Doran (DOR-an) at the National Cartoonists Society annual meeting and Reuben Awards dinner. This year it’s being held in Columbus, Ohio, in association with the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Colleen wrote and illustrated the graphic novel adaptation of Good Omens.

https://goodomens.com/products/good-omens-graphic-novel

Regarding certain allegations against Neil Gaiman, all I can say is that Colleen had and has absolutely nothing to do with any of that business.