Well, it says here that this is Whizzy’s Wazoo #53. That means today ComicMix starts our second year. Wow. This is a good time to look back at what we’ve done, what we’re trying to do, and how we’ve made the world a better place. Whereas that last point is undoubtedly true, I’d rather…
So there I was, in my car, tooling along, headed towards my eye doctor appointment, listening to my public radio station, WNYC, and one of their talk shows – the Brian Leherer Show. The segment was referred to as “Can Meat Be Ethical?” The guests were Joan Gussow, professor emeritus of Nutrition and Education at…
Readers of MAD Magazine who pick up the March issue (hitting shelves Feb. 19), might want to take special note of a certain two-page spread they’ll find inside. The special feature will showcase the work of 10 Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists. Ths spread, titled "Why George W. Bush is in Favor of Global Warming," will…
How did we love IDW in 2007? Let us count the ways: The kickoff of their new Star Trek comics The first collection of Terry and the Pirates strips The big-screen debut of 30 Days of Night The announcement that they would be publishing comics based on the BBC series Doctor Who Transformers, Transformers, Transformers…
The St. Petersburg Times reports that on Feb. 10, a group of notable black cartoonists will be running variations of the same joke in each of their comic strips in order to shed light on a perceived "lumping together" of cartoonists by ethnicity. With many newspapers looking to shake up their format by making changes…
And every fair from fair sometime declines By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d That’s Shakespeare. Sonnet XVIII – or 18 to those of us who don’t want to bother with Roman numerals. Will is talking about the inevitable decay and decline of beauty in the person to whom the sonnet is addressed….
If you happen to have three hundred and twenty-five smackaroos lying around, you can secure a DVD-lover’s dream. Because that’s about how much it’ll cost you to give yourself — or others — my top DVD picks for this season’s gift-giving. Oh sure, you could simply go back amongst my previous columns and cherry pick…
The third of my favorite summer ‘007 films, Superbad, is arriving as a “2-Disc Unrated Extended Edition” this coming Tuesday, with too many special features for its own good. The best of the many extras are the ones which share the raunchy, soft-centered, spirit of the film itself. The ones I could’ve done without are…
Prurient: “Having or intended to arouse an unwholesome interest in sexual matters.” – Encarta World English Dictionary That’s pretty much the only word anyone needs to explain I Know Who Killed Me starring Lindsay Lohan. The words “great,” “well-made,” “engrossing,” or even “entertaining” wouldn’t suffice. “Fascinating,” however, might fit, given this car wreck of a…
Running Press Book Publishers released a 1,200 page, 15 pound tome called The Completely MAD Don Martin, reprinting all the work Don Martin did for Mad Magazine, back when in the days Mad was a force to be reckoned with. That means it upset our parents. That function must necessarily pass from one venue to…
Last week I discussed how great, illuminating, extras can turn a flawed film into a DVD must-have. This week, the worm has turned. I now aim to show that all the extras in the world can’t make a misguided movie a keeper. Spider-Man 3 was a mess. It was especially disappointing because director Sam Raimi…
The last time I’ve spoke to Jackie Chan he said to me: “I’ve done everything three times” – meaning that he’s finding less and less ways, and reasons, to top himself. Unfortunately that also results in schizo, ultimately unsatisfying, films, further hampered by his unwillingness to mature his screen persona. Even so, he keeps looking…
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