Pop links: Kaluta! The Specials! Fun Boy Three! Dick Tracy! Bronze Age Marvel Comics!

The Pictorial Arts is in the midst of a series of posts celebrating the fabulous artwork of Michael Kaluta. Today's entry: A nicely illustrated adaptation of one of Edgar Rice Burrough's "Carson of Venus" tales. Check out the rest of the blog for more great Kaluta art.



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From Bedazzled, a vintage video of The Specials performing (more miming, actually. But it's still cool) their classic "Ghost Town" on Britain's "Top of the Pops" in 1981. I remember well getting that EP when it came out.

And in another Specials-related post: The Fun Boy Three performs "Our Lips Are Sealed," a tune co-written by Specials/Fun Boy Three singer Terry Hall and the Go-Gos' Jane Wiedlin.

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Fred Hembeck continues his YouTube explorations (hey, he's on a pop culture safari!) and turns up 1947's "Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome," featuring Boris Karloff in the villain's role.

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Diversions of the Groovy Kind shares some stunning Marvel Comics' splash pages from the height of the Bronze Age, right about the time a young me was getting into funny books.

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