Once again we’re away from Second City comic book happenings here in the First City, but at least we can all share Chicago nickname puns as well as the Perseid meteor showers this evening from pretty much wherever we live. That, and the ComicMix columns from this past week: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #26:…
Everyone around my age seems to have a Twilight Zone episode that sticks with them the most. For me, it’s the Burgess Meredith-starring "Time Enough At Last," which title I always misremember as World Enough and Time. (Just my luck I’m about to become even more confused as that’s also the title of the new…
Yesterday was a very special day for lots of folks. In the baseball world a couple of home run records were set, in the political world attendees at the progressive blogosphere’s Nerd Prom (yes, they have one too) schmoozed with the Democratic presidential candidates, and we at ComicMix celebrated head honcho Mike Gold’s 57th go-round…
White Rabbits! (Sorry, that supersition is how I start every month.) So Robin and I were watching Godspell on TV the other day. Yeah, every now and then I like to revel in the best of ’70s kitsch. Godspell reminds me a lot of Finian’s Rainbow. They’re both earnest, so very very earnest, in their…
Yeah, I guess I’m missing San Diego, in more ways than one. But then again, they’re missing the Del Close improv marathon here in NYC, so that makes us even. Not. Ah well, on to this past week’s ComicMix columns: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #24: Getting Nostalgic For Nostalgia Dennis O’Neil – The Four-Color…
It’s the day before the biggest convention in an American comic fan’s year — the San Diego Comic-Con International. Just about every one of my ComicMix colleagues is heading out there. (Don’t ask me how they got hotel rooms, it’s still a mystery to me.) I’m not. My boss told me a long time ago…
Nerds, geeks and thinking people everywhere are settling down to read J.K. Rowling’s latest and last adventure of Harry Potter prior to packing for sunny southern California. At least that’s what they tell me; I’ll wait for the easier-to-heft paperback, thanks. But there are no queues at all to read ComicMix columnist contributions from this…
Want to excite that baseball fan whom you’d like to drag along to the Comic-Con International in San Diego next week? Tell her or him that Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling will be there, or at least his company will. On his blog 38 Pitches, Schilling links to a Businesswire story about his 38…
The older I get, the more Einsteinian I become in my concept of time. It’s like I’m watching a vehicle moving at light-speed, Dopplering like crazy, when it’s all I can do sometimes to make it from point A to point B. I’m just a 20th century gal in a 21st century world. Which isn’t…
Another glorious summery weekend here in the New York metro area, so with the necessary errands all done (why is it that most of them seem to involve spending money?), it’s time to catch you up on what ComicMix columnists have written this past week: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #22: Insanity, Thy Name is…
It’s said that there are only a few established art and entertainment forms that America can truly call its own — baseball, jazz music and comic books. It’s a bit of a hubristic statement, not surprising coming from a country as relatively young yet as vast as our own. It almost sounds as if we’re…
Well, maybe not the NJ Turnpike, but it seemed like every car in the world was in the Garden State Parkway heading southward both yesterday and today. Kinda fun if one’s travelling northward, but not at all amusing when one is among the plastic and metal hordes. It’s nice to come home to one’s own…
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