Ostrander Auction: ‘Ex Machina’ #24 page 2 by Tony Harris

Since the first animated short in 1929, the Looney Tunes brand has signified creative genius and unusual freedom for its animators, who were not required to follow the vision of one man: Walt Disney. Instead, producer Leon Schlesinger oversaw a long run of entertaining eight-minute cartoons that introduced a stressed nation to live-wire characters, beginning…
Jeanne Robinson, dancer, choreographer, teacher and Hugo and Nebula winning co-author of three science fiction novels known as The Stardance Trilogy with her husband Spider Robinson, died Sunday of bilary tract cancer at the age of 62. Robinson studied dance at the Boston Conservatory, and at the Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, and Erick Hawkins schools….
As our own Martha Thomases pointed out last Saturday, today is Labor Day. Martha made an interesting comparison between Manhattan and the Bottle City of Kandor without once referencing Rudy Guiliani as Brainiac. Nice self-restraint, Martha! Like Martha, I, too, come from a city of Big Labor, one that has thus far managed to avoid…
ALL PULP Reviews by Ron Fortier FRANKENSTEIN â Lost Souls By Dean Koontz Bantaam Books 381 pages Released Jan 2011 ISBN 10 â 0553593676 ISBN 13 â 978-0553593679 About the author â Dean R. Koontz is the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their…
Today, there’s a full, free issue of Black Lamb, featuring splattered body parts, intrigue, mobs and the void of space. Good stuff from Timothy Truman, in full color, on ComicMix.
Thirty years ago today, the first Apple II went on sale at the West Coast Computer Faire. It included color, sound, paddles for Pong and Breakout, a 6502 microprocessor running at 1 MHz, 4 KB of RAM, an audio cassette interface for loading programs and storing data, the Integer BASIC programming language built into the ROMs, a…