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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy)
Harry Potter: The Complete Collection Years 1-7
Doctor Who: The Sixth Series - Part 2
Blue Velvet [Blu-ray]
Doctor Who: Colony in Space (Story 58)
Ballad of Mott the Hoople
Mr. Magoo: The Television Collection, 1960-1977
The King of Cool: Best of Dean Martin Variety Show (Collector's Edition)
Jean Harlow Collection
Bell Telephone Hour 1960-1965
Bell Telephone Hour 1959-1966
New and upcoming pop culture books
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No Regrets
The Garner Files: A Memoir
Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Complete Filmmaking Journey
The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael
House of Cash: The Legacies of my Father, Johnny Cash
Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark
R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection
Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation
Goodbye Surfing, Hello God!
You Really Got Me: The Story of the Kinks
No Regrets
The Garner Files: A Memoir
Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Complete Filmmaking Journey
The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael
House of Cash: The Legacies of my Father, Johnny Cash
Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark
R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection
Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation
Goodbye Surfing, Hello God!
You Really Got Me: The Story of the Kinks
Download a preview of Fantagraphics' Complete Pogo Vol. 1
The first installment of Fantagraphics' complete collection of Walt Kelly's Pogo comic strips is out later this month. You can download a 27-page preview here.
Details of the book:
Pogo - Vol. 1 of the Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: "Through the Wild Blue Wonder"
Details of the book:
Pogo - Vol. 1 of the Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: "Through the Wild Blue Wonder"
Walt Kelly started his career at age 13 in Connecticut as a cartoonist and reporter for the Bridgeport Post. In 1935, he moved to Los Angeles and joined the Walt Disney Studio, where he worked on classic animated films, including Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Fantasia. Rather than take sides in a bitter labor strike, he moved back east in 1941 and began drawing comic books.
It was during this time that Kelly created Pogo Possum. The character first appeared in Animal Comics as a secondary player in the “Albert the Alligator” feature. It didn’t take long until Pogo became the comic’s leading character. After WWII, Kelly became artistic director at the New York Star, where he turned Pogo into a daily strip. By late 1949, Pogo appeared in hundreds of newspapers. Until his death in 1973, Kelly produced a feature that has become widely cherished among casual readers and aficionados alike.
Kelly blended nonsense language, poetry, and political and social satire to make Pogo an essential contribution to American “intellectual” comics. As the strip progressed, it became a hilarious platform for Kelly’s scathing political views in which he skewered national bogeymen like J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, George Wallace, and Richard Nixon.
Walt Kelly started when newspaper strips shied away from politics — Pogo was ahead of its time and ahead of later strips (such as Doonesbury and The Boondocks) that tackled political issues. Our first (of 12) volume reprints approximately the first two years of Pogo — dailies and (for the first time) full-color Sundays.
This first volume also introduces such enduring supporting characters as Porkypine, Churchy LaFemme, Beauregard Bugleboy, Seminole Sam, Howland Owl, and many others. And for Christmas, 1949, Kelly started his tradition of regaling his readers with his infamously and gloriously mangled Christmas carols.
Special features in this sumptuous premiere volume, which is produced with the full cooperation of Kelly’s heirs, include a biographical introduction by Kelly biographer Steve Thompson, an extensive section by comics historian R.C. Harvey explaining some of the more obscure current references of the time, a foreword by legendary columnist Jimmy Breslin, and more.
BBC radio this week
Click the links to stream the listed programs:
Herge's The Adventures of Tintin
Adaptations of Herge's classic cartoon adventures
James Bond - You Only Live Twice
Agent 007's latest mission sparks a fatal encounter in a Japanese garden of death.
Pulp Fiction
Readings of stories from the classic era of crime fiction
Sherlock Holmes v Dracula
The Baker Street sleuth takes on the sanguinary Count.
Crying Waiting Hoping: The Story of Buddy Holly's Last Tour
Steve Harley tells the story of the ill-fated Winter Dance Party.
Laurel Canyon
Mickey Dolenz reflects on the LA area which became home to a diverse mix of musical stars.
Maria Elena Holly: My Life with Buddy
Maria Elena Holly talks to Don McLean about her eight-month marriage to Buddy Holly.
Pete Townshend: Before I Get Old
Documentary about the Who guitarist.
The John Peel Lecture
6 Music presents this annual discussion on music and music-related media.
Herge's The Adventures of Tintin
Adaptations of Herge's classic cartoon adventures
James Bond - You Only Live Twice
Agent 007's latest mission sparks a fatal encounter in a Japanese garden of death.
Pulp Fiction
Readings of stories from the classic era of crime fiction
Sherlock Holmes v Dracula
The Baker Street sleuth takes on the sanguinary Count.
Crying Waiting Hoping: The Story of Buddy Holly's Last Tour
Steve Harley tells the story of the ill-fated Winter Dance Party.
Laurel Canyon
Mickey Dolenz reflects on the LA area which became home to a diverse mix of musical stars.
Maria Elena Holly: My Life with Buddy
Maria Elena Holly talks to Don McLean about her eight-month marriage to Buddy Holly.
Pete Townshend: Before I Get Old
Documentary about the Who guitarist.
The John Peel Lecture
6 Music presents this annual discussion on music and music-related media.
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