Looking for that special comic from 40, 50, even 60 years ago to give your loved one struggling with VD, diabetes, AIDS, marijuana, guns or just about anything else? Musician Ethan Persoff may have just what you seek. Comics With Problems collects various unintentionally hilarious public service advertisements in the form of comics, with titles…
Last weekend, we finally caught up with I’m Not There, the brilliant Todd Haynes movie about the myths of Bob Dylan. The director intertwines the lives of six men, each symbolizing a stage of Dylan’s artistic development and public persona. They include a wide range: a young black boy, played by Marcus Carl Franklin;…
Today in 1935, a king was born. In East Tupelo. Apparently, so great was/is his majesty that Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, North and South Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia have made today, "Elvis Presley Day." The king had a twin, Jesse, who was stillborn– no room in this world for two kings of music. Incidentally,…
Ah, holidays: a time to get together with family and friends … and watch all the DVDs you missed during the year. In my case, it’s with my teen and preteen nieces, so sooner or later they get control of the remote, and they call the shots. So it was in this cozy, tinsel-lined…
Tom Ryan’s Tumbleweeds ends its 42 year run in the newspapers today, at the request of the artist. The always entertaining big-foot western strip launched an animated teevee series, a musical and a theme-park, as well as appearing in hundreds of newspapers throughout the years. Ryan continues a trend of creators retiring their strips at…
Science fiction writer John Scalzi started it. He tried to make our heads explode with a particular music video. I’ve grown rather attached to my head over the years, and so I returned fire on my own weblog with <a href=” find. Within ten minutes, he parried with <a href=” retort. Oh, it is on,…
ComicMix Radio jumps right into this week’s pile of new comics and DVDs that are screaming to be added to your gift list… plus: • There was a day when every good (or bad) rock & roll concert had a distinctive poster attached. There’s a list of the Top 25 All Time Rock Posters –…
Comics and TV scribe John Rogers and Tyrone are having lunch again. John: … No. Tyrone: Listen, all I’m asking is that you give the idea a decent — John: Robot overlords. You are "pro-robot overlords". Tyrone: They bring world peace, universal health care — John: At the cost of our freedoms! Tyrone: MY POINT…
One of the country’s biggest authors comes to ComicMix Radio today to talk about his red young adult series, Maximum Ride, which we are betting will be a graphic novel sooner than you think. Plus: • Amelia Rules hits the musical stage • Warren Ellis gets another net home • CBLDF kicks off their holiday…
Some recent installments of this so-called Forgotten Horrors feature – the title suggests a resurrection of obscurities more so than it proclaims any particular shivers – have established the music-making imperative as essential to the standing of Robert Crumb as a Great American Cartoonist. Other such pieces have touched upon the kinship that I have…
Move those clocks back and use the exta time to settle in with ComicMix columns, why don’tcha! Here’s what we’ve brought you this past week: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #38: Of course A is A Dennis O’Neil – The Four-Color Answer #38: Fear Factor Me – It’s All Good #37: Children of all ages…
Continued from last week: Robert Crumb and I began early in 1985 to develop a musical accompaniment for the first stage production of R. Crumb Comix at Fort Worth, Texas’ Hip Pocket Theatre. We consulted by telephone between my digs in Fort Worth and his home near Winters, California, and Robert prepared numerous reference dubs…
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