A two-CD, 1-DVD set focused on Johnny Cash's 1968 performances at California's Folsom Prison is due out Oct. 14, Billboard reports.
Disk 1 includes the complete first show, totalling 65 minutes, while disk 2 collects the 75-minute second show. Previously unreleased tunes from both performances are included.
The DVD includes concert footage along with interviews with various performers and former Folsom inmates who attended the shows.
The set also includes a book, featuring a 4,000-word essay by Cash biographer Michael Streissguth and liner notes by Cash and Steve Earle.
At Folsom Prison Legacy Edition
Buy New: $39.98
CD new releases Aug. 12, 2008
Star Wars The Clone Wars
Buy New: $12.99
The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 10
Buy New: $107.99
An Invitation Inara George and Van Dyke Parks
Buy New: $13.99
Road Runner The Chess Masters 1959-1960 by Bo Diddley
Buy New: $29.98
Buy New: $12.99
The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 10
Buy New: $107.99
An Invitation Inara George and Van Dyke Parks
Buy New: $13.99
Road Runner The Chess Masters 1959-1960 by Bo Diddley
Buy New: $29.98
DVD new releases Aug. 12, 2008
The Wire - The Complete Fifth Season
Buy New: $38.99
The Secret
Buy New: $17.99
South Park
Buy New: $29.99
DC Super Heroes
Buy New: $18.99
Brand Upon the Brain! - Criterion Collection
Buy New: $29.99
Tru Calling
Buy New: $41.99
Buy New: $38.99
The Secret
Buy New: $17.99
South Park
Buy New: $29.99
DC Super Heroes
Buy New: $18.99
Brand Upon the Brain! - Criterion Collection
Buy New: $29.99
Tru Calling
Buy New: $41.99
Disney Princess and the Frog pics and teaser
Here are some stills from Disney's upcoming hand-painted animation feature "The Princess and the Frog." Check out the teaser here.
Looks like fun. And it'll be nice to see a non-CGI 'toon again.
Looks like fun. And it'll be nice to see a non-CGI 'toon again.
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Deal alert: Amazon is offering the first four seasons of "The Wire" for $95.49. Pretty good price for the Best Show Ever.
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See the "American Band Stand" audience react to the then-way out promo films for the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" back in 1967.
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Stan Lee, Joe Kubert and Neal Adams have joined forces to create a comic telling the story of artist Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, 85, who wants her original works returned to her from a Polish Holocaust museum.
Babbitt...survived two years at the Auschwitz concentration camp by painting watercolor portraits for the infamous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele. Some of the artwork also survived, but it is in the possession of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland. Now 85 and living in California, Mrs. Babbitt wants the artwork back, but the museum has steadfastly refused to return it.
Now Mrs. Babbitt’s story has been captured in a six-page comic-book story illustrated by Mr. Adams...inked partly by Mr. Kubert...and featuring an introduction by Mr. Lee, a co-creator of the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and many other Marvel heroes.
The text was written by Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which has championed Mrs. Babbitt’s cause. Mr. Medoff and Mr. Adams have offered the story to DC Comics and Marvel Entertainment in the hopes of getting it published, but no deal is yet in place.
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See a Steve Ditko-illustrated romance tale from 1953.
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See the "American Band Stand" audience react to the then-way out promo films for the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" back in 1967.
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Stan Lee, Joe Kubert and Neal Adams have joined forces to create a comic telling the story of artist Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, 85, who wants her original works returned to her from a Polish Holocaust museum.
Babbitt...survived two years at the Auschwitz concentration camp by painting watercolor portraits for the infamous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele. Some of the artwork also survived, but it is in the possession of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland. Now 85 and living in California, Mrs. Babbitt wants the artwork back, but the museum has steadfastly refused to return it.
Now Mrs. Babbitt’s story has been captured in a six-page comic-book story illustrated by Mr. Adams...inked partly by Mr. Kubert...and featuring an introduction by Mr. Lee, a co-creator of the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and many other Marvel heroes.
The text was written by Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which has championed Mrs. Babbitt’s cause. Mr. Medoff and Mr. Adams have offered the story to DC Comics and Marvel Entertainment in the hopes of getting it published, but no deal is yet in place.
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See a Steve Ditko-illustrated romance tale from 1953.
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Golden Age Comic Book Stories remembers the great Jack Kamen with a selection of the artist's stories, splash pages and covers.
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NPR takes a look at Brazilian psychedelia.
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Newsarama Jeff Trexler analyzes some 1930s and 40s correspondence between Superman co-creator and DC Comics, back when Siegel was first starting to fight for his rights to the character. Weird stuff that manages to paint an even more unsympathetic portrait of the DC regime back then.
...there’s a lot of amazing stuff here — the recurring savage criticism of Joe Shuster’s art; an early critique of Wayne Boring as an artist unsuitable for Superman; the hiring of Winsor McCay, Jr., as Superman ghost-artist-in-training; the insinuation that Superman was not significantly more popular than Zatara, Pep Morgan and Tex Thomson; and the prohibition on depictions of a flying Clark Kent are just a few of the historical moments in the mix.
Yet it is the sex stuff that really stands out, providing a rare insiders’ perspective on the comics writing culture of the past. One of the true highlights of the newly released correspondence is the black-and-white sketch of Lois Lane included in this post. The artist was Siegel’s and Shuster’s editor, Whitney Ellsworth, who was attempting to get the duo to make Lois Lane less curvaceous.
Shuster’s Lois was so “unpleasantly sexy” that her pulchritude made her seem a bit too heavy–a problem for which Ellsworth and Murray Boltinoff had an easy solution:
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Pappy presents one of Ogen Whitney's Herbie tales.
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Check out a rare, 1969 radio broadcast by the Bonzo Dog Band.
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NPR takes a look at Brazilian psychedelia.
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Newsarama Jeff Trexler analyzes some 1930s and 40s correspondence between Superman co-creator and DC Comics, back when Siegel was first starting to fight for his rights to the character. Weird stuff that manages to paint an even more unsympathetic portrait of the DC regime back then.
...there’s a lot of amazing stuff here — the recurring savage criticism of Joe Shuster’s art; an early critique of Wayne Boring as an artist unsuitable for Superman; the hiring of Winsor McCay, Jr., as Superman ghost-artist-in-training; the insinuation that Superman was not significantly more popular than Zatara, Pep Morgan and Tex Thomson; and the prohibition on depictions of a flying Clark Kent are just a few of the historical moments in the mix.
Yet it is the sex stuff that really stands out, providing a rare insiders’ perspective on the comics writing culture of the past. One of the true highlights of the newly released correspondence is the black-and-white sketch of Lois Lane included in this post. The artist was Siegel’s and Shuster’s editor, Whitney Ellsworth, who was attempting to get the duo to make Lois Lane less curvaceous.
Shuster’s Lois was so “unpleasantly sexy” that her pulchritude made her seem a bit too heavy–a problem for which Ellsworth and Murray Boltinoff had an easy solution:
...The criticism did not stop with Lois, however. Another alleged problem with Shuster’s artwork is that it made Superman look gay — or in the period slang of Ellsworth’s January 22, 1940, letter, “lah-de-dah” with a “nice fat bottom.”[W]hy it is necessary to shade Lois’ breasts and the underside of her tummy with vertical pen-lines we can’t understand. She looks pregnant. Murray suggests that you arrange for her to have an abortion or the baby and get it over with so that her figure can return to something a little more like the tasty dish she is supposed to be.
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Pappy presents one of Ogen Whitney's Herbie tales.
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Check out a rare, 1969 radio broadcast by the Bonzo Dog Band.
10 comic book covers by Jack Kamen
A prolific comics artist from the 1940s and '50s, Jack Kamen passed away Aug. 5. He's likely best known for his work on EC Comics horror tales and his earlier stint on various jungle girl strips.
More trivia: Kamen's son, Dean, is the inventor of the Segway personal transport vehicle.
Comic book historian Mark Evanier has more details about the elder Kamen's career here.
Here's a look at some of Kamen's comic book covers. I found the scans at the Great Comic Book Database:
More trivia: Kamen's son, Dean, is the inventor of the Segway personal transport vehicle.
Comic book historian Mark Evanier has more details about the elder Kamen's career here.
Here's a look at some of Kamen's comic book covers. I found the scans at the Great Comic Book Database:
Man from U.N.C.L.E. memorabilia
Continuing with a sporadic stream of recent posts of all things U.N.C.L.E.:
Man from U.N.C.L.E. action figure/doll
Card game
Girl from U.N.C.L.E. garter holster. What parents wouldn't want their daughters playing with this?!!
lunch box
model
shooting arcade
record
coloring book
puzzle
plastic figures. I had one of these! I colored it with markers...
gun
puzzle 2
puzzle 3
record 2
gun 2
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - The Complete Series
Buy New: $139.99
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Book
Author: Jon Heitland; Buy New: $19.95
Man from U.N.C.L.E. action figure/doll
Card game
Girl from U.N.C.L.E. garter holster. What parents wouldn't want their daughters playing with this?!!
lunch box
model
shooting arcade
record
coloring book
puzzle
plastic figures. I had one of these! I colored it with markers...
gun
puzzle 2
puzzle 3
record 2
gun 2
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - The Complete Series
Buy New: $139.99
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Book
Author: Jon Heitland; Buy New: $19.95
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