Music new releases April 19, 2011

Glee: The Music presents The Warblers


The Fall Gorillaz


Kinks Kontroversy


Kinks




Kinda Kinks


Boogie 4 Stu Various Artists


Talahomi Way The High Llamas


Satyr's Play / Cerberus John Zorn

DVD new releases April 19, 2011

Bambi (Two-Disc Diamond Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging)


Bambi (Two-Disc Diamond Edition)


Gulliver's Travels (2 Disc Set with Gulliver's Fun Pack)


The Ernie Kovacs Collection


Captain Planet And The Planeteers: Season One


Gaumont Treasures: 1897-1913


Gaumont Treasures Vol. 2: 1908-1916


Sextette


Space Kidettes / Young Samson


Miramax From Dusk Till Dawn Series: From Dusk Till Dawn / Full-Tilt Boogie / From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money / From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter


Guitar Artistry of John Fahey

Bongo Comics to launch Sergio Aragonés title

Bongo Comics is launching Sergio Aragonés Funnies in July, a new monthly title featuring new works by the brilliant Mad Magazine cartoonist.

Each issue offers an assortment of autobiographical anecdotes, perplexing puzzles, slap-happy short stories, as well as Sergio's unique and hilarious pantomimes and gags. With this new series, the world's most beloved cartoonist continues to prove that humor is truly a universal language!

This will definitely be on my monthly buy list.

Farrah Fawcett immortalized as Barbie Doll

Here's a look at the new Farrah Fawcett collectible Barbie, out in July.

Lost Jack Kirby art surfaces in Kirby vs. Marvel lawsuit

The estate of comics great Jack Kirby is suing Marvel Comics over rights of the many character he co-created while freelancing for the company and, as a byproduct, we're getting a look at some story pages that Kirby created but Marvel chose not to buy.

The online Jack Kirby Museum has posted a number of these, including several lost pages of a Hulk tale that were literally saved from the dustbin by Marvel scripter (and Marvel publisher Stan Lee's brother) Larry Lieber.

In his testimony, Larry says:

"... Jack Kirby came out of Stan's office from -- and from the direction of Stan's office. He may, probably, he had come out of Stan's office, and he seemed upset. And he took the drawings, he had these drawings, he took them and he tore them in half and he threw them in a trash can, a large trash can.

"And I, since I was such a big fan of his, I knew that at the end of the day, they would be discarded, you know, and would be trash. And I -- I saw it as an opportunity to have some of his originals to keep, to look at and study, and so I took them out of the trash can.

"And there were other people in the office, but nobody else seemed to have noticed this, which I was glad about, and I just took them, walked over to where I was sitting and put them in my case. And I took them home and I taped them together, you know, I taped them all, and I kept them and I've kept them all these years to look at them and, as I say, to study them."

New Thor movie pictures

Pentax unveils DC Comics-themed cameras

These are pretty nifty:

Featuring a 14 megapixel CCD sensor, 4x optical zoom, HD video recording (30 fps) and a 3" LCD screen, the DC Comics edition of the Pentax RS1500 will run you about $200. In addition to the superhero skins -- which depict very cool '70s versions of the DC characters and thus give the camera itself a kind of retro charm -- the camera comes with a Green Lantern-branded protective carrying case.

Lennon's Lucy in the Sky lyrics up for auction

John Lennon's initial lyrics for "Lucy in the Sky with Diamond" are going up for bid.

Auction house Profiles in History said on Wednesday that it expects the draft lyric sheet to sell for more than $200,000 at a sale next month in Beverly Hills.

It has the opening lyrics for the song, and a rough sketch by of four people in a room with windows draped in curtains.