Pop links: Rod Serling! Abbey Road Studios! Corben! Hembeck!

See a 1970 interview with "Twilight Zone" creator Rod Serling.

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Abbey Road Studios (y'know, the place where the Beatles made most of their records) is coming out with a line of products aimed at digital home recordists. More here.

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Check out Weird Fantasies #1 from 1972, with (NSFW, by the way) art by Richard Corben and Landon Chesney.



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Cartoonist Fred Hembeck has some swell new art for sale.

New book looks at Will Eisner's PS Magazine work

For 21 years following his Spirit comic strip and before launching a new career as a pioneering "graphic novelist" cartoonist Will Eisner worked on PS Magazine, a U.S. Army publication focused on preventive maintenance of military equipment. Sounds dull, right? But not with Eisner involved. The result was an innovative comic-strip-oriented, graphically interesting approach to conveying information to readers--in this case, Army personnel.

It's fascinating stuff. And we civilians get a chance to take a look and learn more about this aspect of Eisner's life in a new book penned by his editor on that project, Paul E. Fitzgerald.

So far, Fitzgerald's lavishly illustrated book is only available in an autographed limited edition here, yet it looks as if a paperback edition is eventually planned. It looks great.

Pics from Disney's The Princess and the Frog

Here are some images from Disney's upcoming "The Princess and the Frog." It's the studio's first hand-animated flick in forever and looks lovely. More here.

Vintage promo still: Jayne Mansfield

Rolling Stones 45 rpm picture sleeves

Pop links: New DC Comics blogs; when Elvis met the Beatles; new Scorsese flick

DC Comics has launched blogs for its Vertigo and Wildstorm imprints. The join DC's mainline blog, The Source.

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What really happened when the Beatles met Elvis Presley? The Los Angeles Times investigates.

“No matter who you are,” says Schilling, “walking into Elvis Presley’s house is a different experience. His presence put things on a certain level, and I think the Beatles could feel that. But Elvis knew how to handle it. He said, ‘If you guys are just going to sit around and stare at me, I’m going to bed.’ That broke the ice and got a laugh out of everybody. Right away, the Beatles understood that Elvis was a guy with a sense of humor—and a guy who really loved crazy British humor. It wasn’t too long before John and Elvis were talking about Peter Sellers and favorite scenes from Dr. Strangelove.”

See more Beatles posts at Beatles Blog Daily!

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See a trailer for Martin Scorsese's upcoming film, "Shutter Island."

“Shutter Island” is the story of two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island’s fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane.

Vintage promo still: Tarzan

New Green Lantern First Flight DVD pics

Here are two new images from the upcoming direct-to-DVD Green Lantern film.

Video find: Jimi Hendrix on the Lulu Show 1969

Watch Jimi break into a cover of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" near the end.

First look at Beatles Remasters stereo and mono box sets

Here's a first look at the Beatles Remasters box set! It'll feature stereo versions of all the band's albums, plus the 2-CD Past Masters singles compilation, along with a DVD featuring the "making-of" shorts included on early versions of the individual album remasters.



And here's a look at the Beatles in Mono box set, which includes CDs of all the albums originally released in mono mixes.