…Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play. They’ve been going in and out of style, but they’re guaranteed to raise a smile. So let me introduce to you, the act you’ve known for all these years… Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Released four decades ago today in the UK and tomorrow in the US….
Yes, today’s the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars, or as some folks have suggested, Universal Day of the Jedi. It’s also the 24th Anniversary of the release of Return of the Jedi. But did you know it’s also Towel Day? Towel Day was created to commemorate the passing of that hoopy frood Douglas Adams, who…
A long time ago (30 years ago today) in a galaxy far, far away… actually, for me it was the old Fox Theater on Route 347 in Setauket, on a screen the size of a battleship… a little film called Star Wars was released. Worlds lived, worlds died, and the cinematic universe would never be…
Seventy-eight years ago today, Mickey Mosue uttered his first words, "Hot Dog!", in the short The Karnival Kid. Although it was Mickey’s ninth short, it was the first in which he actually spoke. Mickey’s voice, of course, was that of his creator, Walt Disney.
Fifty-seven years ago today, science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, which led, through a long and twisted path, to the movie Battlefield Earth. Oh, and Scientology®. And what is Scientology®, you ask? Luckily, we have a handy instructional video…
Sixty-six years ago today, Citizen Kane premiered in New York. We mention this because not only is it one of the greatest films of all time, nor because it’s been the basis for everything from Andy Helfer and Kyle Baker’s Shadow Annual #2 to the unproduced screenplay for I, Robot by Harlan Ellison, nor even…
Fifty one years ago today in New York City, the horrors of atomic mutation came home to roost as a guy in a giant rubber suit a gigantic lizard the size of a whale came to life on the silver screen in Godzilla, King Of The Monsters. Starring Raymond Burr as Steve Martin (?) the…
It was twenty years ago today, Homer Simpson taught the land to strangle his son. On April 19, 1987 The Tracey Ullman Show aired a two-minute animated short by Matt Groening that introduced the world to the Simpsons, a family from Springfield, USA. And, quite literally, television has never been the same. The Simpsons has…
Fifty-two (there’s that number again) years ago today, the first McDonald’s franchise opened up in Des Plaines, IL, just north of Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. It’s still there, but now it’s a museum – complete with 1955 cars in the parking lot. On behalf of what you’ve done for the bodies of millions of comic book…
In 1982, Mike Gamble opened a comic book store in Willow Glen, California. Today, owned by Dan Shahin and renamed Hijinx Comics, the store is still open, still selling comics, and still entertaining the community. Shahin started working at the store in 1986,when he was eleven years old. Paid in store credit, he sorted baseball…
If you’ve ever wanted to read the original Archie stories from way back in 1941, this summer you’ll get your chance. To celebrate his 65th anniversary, Archie Comics Digest will reprint both the very first Archie story, from Pep Comics #22 (December 1941) and the complete Archie Comics #1 (Winter 1942/43). Rounding out the celebratory…
The British Film Institute is celebrating 100th anniversary of the birth of Hergé (Georges Remi) with an evening of English-language versions of the live action 1961 film Tintin and the Golden Treasure. The showing also includes rare footage of Hergé speaking in English about his creation (from the 1975 BBC programme Them and Us: Belgium)…
