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Pop focus: Christmas with Mary Blair
We did a "Pop Focus" feature on artist Mary Blair not too long ago, showcasing her work for Disney and more. Of a more seasonal bent, here are some of the Christmas cards and images she produced in her advertising work and for Disney.
Pop culture update: Who, gum, sci-fi, t-shirts, zap, OTR Christmas
Pete Townshend has created a symphonic version of the Who's Quadrophenia rock opera.
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Collectors Weekly spotlights the work Dorothy and Otis Shepard, whose airbrush art was used to promote everything from Pabst Beer and Doublemint Gum. The duo is the subject of a new book.
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The Golden Age displays some nice sci-fi book club art of the 1950s and 60s by Frank Frazetta, Richard Corben, Virgil Finlay and more.
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Via Dangerous Minds, one-sentence movie summary t-shirts.
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Fantagraphics publisher Gary Groth discusses a new, complete collection of R. Crumb's Zap Comix.
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Old time radio fans can find some cool compilations of Christmas music by the likes of Bing Crosby, Phil Harris, Gene Autry, Frank Sinatra and more here. (You'll need to scroll down a bit). Fun stuff!
The guitarist hopes his orchestral performance - and a recording to be released next summer featuring tenor Alfie Boe - will help to encourage a new generation of classical music fans.Pete's girlfriend Rachel Fuller has scored the production which will be given its live premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in July.... Pete himself performed on the album along with Alfie Boe, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Oriana Choir and it is due for release by Deutsche Grammophon.
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Collectors Weekly spotlights the work Dorothy and Otis Shepard, whose airbrush art was used to promote everything from Pabst Beer and Doublemint Gum. The duo is the subject of a new book.
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The Golden Age displays some nice sci-fi book club art of the 1950s and 60s by Frank Frazetta, Richard Corben, Virgil Finlay and more.
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Via Dangerous Minds, one-sentence movie summary t-shirts.
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Fantagraphics publisher Gary Groth discusses a new, complete collection of R. Crumb's Zap Comix.
I see Zap as part of the lineage of historically important and aesthetically ground breaking comics anthologies, the first in this lineage, of course, being Mad, which influenced all the Zap artists; next, Humbug, then witzend, then Zap. (Mid-way through Zap’s run, there was Weirdo and Raw, of course.) Each one of these comics anthologies were created by the artists themselves in opposition to the prevailing economic and creative standards of the comics industry; each one of them was created in order to give artists greater freedom to create the work they wanted to create, without the editorial restrictions placed on them by commercial dictates; and the publishing rights and original art featured in each of them (with the exception of Mad, which was at least published by the most enlightened publisher in the history of comics to that time), was owned by the artists —collectively, they represent the long fight for cartoonists to take control of their own destinies. They are the Humbug co-op (composed of Harvey Kurtzman, Arnold Roth, Al Jaffee, Jack Davis, and Will Elder) wanted the freedom to edit, write, and draw a humor magazine suitable for grown-ups; Wally Wood hated mainstream publishers, may have hated editors even more, and created witzend as a place where mainstream cartoonists (and a few young underground artists like Art Spiegelman) could do whatever they wanted, free of the suffocating editorial demands imposed on them by mainstream comics editors; and Zap, of course, created by Crumb, became a collective where the artists could do whatever they wanted. As a model of artists taking their “careers” into their own hands, it can’t be beat.
Old time radio fans can find some cool compilations of Christmas music by the likes of Bing Crosby, Phil Harris, Gene Autry, Frank Sinatra and more here. (You'll need to scroll down a bit). Fun stuff!
So long, Ian McLagen
The great Small Faces/Faces organist passed away yesterday. Here he is with the rest of the Small Faces in a great episode of "Colour Me Pop" from 1968.
Warner Bros. announces plan to replace flawed disks in Batman 1966 TV Show set
Press release via TV on DVD:
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) will provide fans with replacement discs and digital repairs to the few minor technical issues identified in its recent release of Batman: The Complete Television Series.
Amounting to less than five minutes of footage within the 50-plus hours of entertainment, the issues encompass one 60-second dropped scene in the episode entitled "Marsha's Scheme of Diamonds"; a brief piece of rarely-heard William Dozier narration that originally opened the pilot episode, "Hi Diddle Riddle"; and an assembly of villain tags from the end of assorted episodes.
"The restoration process of this footage - spanning 48 years and two major studios - has been a super heroic task, and we deeply regret even the smallest of glitches occurring in that process," said Rosemary Markson, Senior Vice President, TV Brand Management & Retail Marketing, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. "We recognize our obligation to the fans of this landmark series, and we have worked diligently to identify all issues and provide resolutions as quickly as possible."
To resolve these issues for consumers purchasing Batman: The Complete Television Series, WBHE will make available complete replacement discs for the discs that originally included the episodes "Marsha's Scheme of Diamonds" and "Hi Diddle Riddle." The villain tags will be re-issued as an assembled string on one of the aforementioned discs and, as an added bonus, WBHE has acquired rights and legal clearances to both a Bat-vehicle teaser that originally aired as part of the second season-opening "Shoot A Crooked Arrow" episode, and one of the original promotional tags that aired on the original showing of the "The Duo Defy" episode. Additionally, all fixes will be made to all Digital HD versions of Batman: The Complete Television Series.
To obtain the replacement discs, consumers who have purchased Batman: The Complete Television Series are directed to www.warnerbros.com/help/customer-service.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) will provide fans with replacement discs and digital repairs to the few minor technical issues identified in its recent release of Batman: The Complete Television Series.
Amounting to less than five minutes of footage within the 50-plus hours of entertainment, the issues encompass one 60-second dropped scene in the episode entitled "Marsha's Scheme of Diamonds"; a brief piece of rarely-heard William Dozier narration that originally opened the pilot episode, "Hi Diddle Riddle"; and an assembly of villain tags from the end of assorted episodes.
"The restoration process of this footage - spanning 48 years and two major studios - has been a super heroic task, and we deeply regret even the smallest of glitches occurring in that process," said Rosemary Markson, Senior Vice President, TV Brand Management & Retail Marketing, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. "We recognize our obligation to the fans of this landmark series, and we have worked diligently to identify all issues and provide resolutions as quickly as possible."
To resolve these issues for consumers purchasing Batman: The Complete Television Series, WBHE will make available complete replacement discs for the discs that originally included the episodes "Marsha's Scheme of Diamonds" and "Hi Diddle Riddle." The villain tags will be re-issued as an assembled string on one of the aforementioned discs and, as an added bonus, WBHE has acquired rights and legal clearances to both a Bat-vehicle teaser that originally aired as part of the second season-opening "Shoot A Crooked Arrow" episode, and one of the original promotional tags that aired on the original showing of the "The Duo Defy" episode. Additionally, all fixes will be made to all Digital HD versions of Batman: The Complete Television Series.
To obtain the replacement discs, consumers who have purchased Batman: The Complete Television Series are directed to www.warnerbros.com/help/customer-service.
New Bob Dylan short film debuts online
Watch "From the Village to the Basement," a short film narrated by Jeff Bridges about Bob Dylan's "Basement Tapes," below.
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