Pop links: Simon and Kirby! Beach Boys! Crime comics! Sergio Aragones! Frazetta! Tom Baker! Tintin!
Check out a vintage Simon and Kirby-produced crime story.
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Read a batch of Crime Does Not Pay stories with work by Dick Briefer,Fred Guardineer, Charles Biro and others.
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The Ventura County Star profiles Mad genius Sergio Aragones.
“Like pain,” Aragonés said in thick accent, “laughter is inside of a person. It’s as natural as hunger.
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According to singer Mike Love, the surviving Beach Boys (I'm assuming that means Brian Wilson, Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnson) will do a 50th anniversary performance in 2011. PBS is also considering an "American Masters" show about the band.
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Speaking of Beach Boys, Times Online reviews his recent performance at the London Roundhouse.
Wilson was in a jokey mood, noting that it was unusual for him to be playing a venue in which the audience were not provided with seats. “If I don’t get a standing ovation for this one . . .” he said sternly, before playing Wouldn’t It Be Nice. He dedicated Girl Don’t Tell Me, an old Beach Boys B-side with a distinct Beatles influence, to John Lennon.
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More crime comics! Here's one illustrated by the great Frank Frazetta.
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Shirley Jones will appear as her real-life stepson David Cassidy's mom--just as she did on "The Partridge Family"--on an episodes of ABC Family's upcoming "Ruby and the Rockets" series Sept. 15.
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Tom Baker talks about his return to the role of Doctor Who for an upcoming BBC radio drama.
Playing the role is easier than putting on an old pair of boots. I said that I never stopped being Doctor Who — not when I walked off the set every day in the ’70s and not since I left the show. I said ‘never’ and I mean it. How could I stop? The Doctor was just Tom Baker. No acting. So, when it came time to record [Hornet's Nest], I just dropped into the studio and picked up the script and away we went. Just like the old days.
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Looks like Steven Spielberg is really getting into the spirit of things directing his upcoming Tintin film.
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Read a batch of Crime Does Not Pay stories with work by Dick Briefer,Fred Guardineer, Charles Biro and others.
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The Ventura County Star profiles Mad genius Sergio Aragones.
“Like pain,” Aragonés said in thick accent, “laughter is inside of a person. It’s as natural as hunger.
“I’m thinking and laughing all day long,” he continued. “Every time I think of a joke, I’m also telling myself a new joke. It’s a great way to live.”
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According to singer Mike Love, the surviving Beach Boys (I'm assuming that means Brian Wilson, Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnson) will do a 50th anniversary performance in 2011. PBS is also considering an "American Masters" show about the band.
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Speaking of Beach Boys, Times Online reviews his recent performance at the London Roundhouse.
Wilson was in a jokey mood, noting that it was unusual for him to be playing a venue in which the audience were not provided with seats. “If I don’t get a standing ovation for this one . . .” he said sternly, before playing Wouldn’t It Be Nice. He dedicated Girl Don’t Tell Me, an old Beach Boys B-side with a distinct Beatles influence, to John Lennon.
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More crime comics! Here's one illustrated by the great Frank Frazetta.
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Shirley Jones will appear as her real-life stepson David Cassidy's mom--just as she did on "The Partridge Family"--on an episodes of ABC Family's upcoming "Ruby and the Rockets" series Sept. 15.
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Tom Baker talks about his return to the role of Doctor Who for an upcoming BBC radio drama.
Playing the role is easier than putting on an old pair of boots. I said that I never stopped being Doctor Who — not when I walked off the set every day in the ’70s and not since I left the show. I said ‘never’ and I mean it. How could I stop? The Doctor was just Tom Baker. No acting. So, when it came time to record [Hornet's Nest], I just dropped into the studio and picked up the script and away we went. Just like the old days.
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Looks like Steven Spielberg is really getting into the spirit of things directing his upcoming Tintin film.
Pop links: Astro Boy! Batmobile! Beatles!
From Hot Toys, here's a look at the 9-inch Astro Boy movie figure out in December.
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Coming from Mattel this winter, here's the 1/18-scale "elite" TV Batmobile Special Edition Matte Black Version.
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Those Beatles remasters are out next week! Whet your appetite with early news and reviews at Beatles Blog Daily!
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Coming from Mattel this winter, here's the 1/18-scale "elite" TV Batmobile Special Edition Matte Black Version.
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Those Beatles remasters are out next week! Whet your appetite with early news and reviews at Beatles Blog Daily!
Pop links: Tintin! The Beatles! Jack Kirby!
A Congolese man is suing to prevent distribution of "Tintin in the Congo" in that country on the grounds that the 1931 book by cartoonist Herge is racist.
Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, 41, is taking legal action claiming Hergé's controversial Tintin In The Congo is propaganda for colonialism and amounts to "racism and xenophobia".
"Tintin's little (black) helper is seen as stupid and without qualities. It makes people think that blacks have not evolved," he said.
Mr Mbutu Mondondo launched a case in Belgium two years ago for symbolic damages of one euro from Tintin's Belgian publishers Moulinsart, and demanded the book be withdrawn from the market.
...In 2007, British race watchdogs pulled the book from children's shelves and attacked the Tintin cartoons for making black Africans "look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles".
Two weeks ago the work was removed from the shelves of Brooklyn's municipal library following a complaint from a reader that it "had illustrations that were racially offensive and inappropriate for children".
...Moulinsart, Tintin's publishers, argued that the whole row was "silly" and that book must be seen in its historical context: "To read in the 21st century a Tintin album dating back to 1931 requires a minimum of intellectual honesty," it said. "If one applied the 'politically correct' filter to great artists or writers, we could no longer publish certain novels of Balzac, Jules Verne, or even some Shakespeare plays."
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Creepy...
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Read a rare funny animal story illustrated by Jack Kirby.
Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, 41, is taking legal action claiming Hergé's controversial Tintin In The Congo is propaganda for colonialism and amounts to "racism and xenophobia".
"Tintin's little (black) helper is seen as stupid and without qualities. It makes people think that blacks have not evolved," he said.
Mr Mbutu Mondondo launched a case in Belgium two years ago for symbolic damages of one euro from Tintin's Belgian publishers Moulinsart, and demanded the book be withdrawn from the market.
...In 2007, British race watchdogs pulled the book from children's shelves and attacked the Tintin cartoons for making black Africans "look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles".
Two weeks ago the work was removed from the shelves of Brooklyn's municipal library following a complaint from a reader that it "had illustrations that were racially offensive and inappropriate for children".
...Moulinsart, Tintin's publishers, argued that the whole row was "silly" and that book must be seen in its historical context: "To read in the 21st century a Tintin album dating back to 1931 requires a minimum of intellectual honesty," it said. "If one applied the 'politically correct' filter to great artists or writers, we could no longer publish certain novels of Balzac, Jules Verne, or even some Shakespeare plays."
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Creepy...
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Read a rare funny animal story illustrated by Jack Kirby.
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