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Category: Cartooning
Pumpkin Spice Peanuts
The free version of the soundtrack, compliments of the Great Pumpkin.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mNORqZcDxMcMacxgn3-oaicZ05ZXANuh0
Note: That playlist has the earlier soundtrack release, taken from the music and effects tracks used for the TV show. The new release is from the original session master tapes.
A quick comparison of the TV show…
… to the master tape.
New Yorker Truther
Gee… that’s right! What was the DOJ thinking? Following due process with a valid search warrant gave them no right to seize secret government documents that Trump had taken without cause, casually mixed in with some personal belongings, then left in unsecured areas.
The Great Pumpkin is Coming at Last!
Calling Out Copyists
This Bizarro comic strip last week got some people exchanging views, once again, about the validity of Roy Lichtenstein’s work.
In cartoonist Wayno’s blog he tells of his thinking behind the strip. (I’m amazed Google still hosts blogs.)
http://waynocartoons.blogspot.com/2022/08/copycat-crime.html
David Barsalou’s extensive research project, Deconstructing Roy Lichstenstein, reveals every one the comic book panels that were copied by Lichtenstein.
David and I were fortunate to have had Barbara Harris as our Art History instructor in college.
http://bostonvoyager.com/interview/check-barbara-harriss-artwork/
Stapp’s Straps
Jack Kirby was born on this day in 1917. The late-50’s comic strip Sky Masters of the Space Force was superbly illustrated by Jack, with perfectly complementary inking by Wally Wood. Note: Kirby/Wood refers to writer Dave Wood, not the unrelated Wally.
The last panel in that strip reminds me of the famous rocket sled tests performed by Dr. John Stapp.
Stapp’s groundbreaking Air Force work, testing the limits of human endurance under extreme conditions, was nothing like the ghoulishly criminal experiments conducted by the Nazis. Stapp was entirely practical in considering the effects of supersonic flight on pilots, and his data was invaluable when the manned space program began. The 3-point lap belt for cars came from Stapp’s research. The PBS series American Experience profiled Stapp in its “Space Men” documentary.
Spaaaaaaaaaaaace Forrrrrrrrrrce!
