It just popped up on my queue so I listened. Glad I did.
I was surprised at all of this Hanna Barbera cartoon background music by Hoyt Curtin that I remembered way back in my brain. Hanna Barbera programming was a huge part of growing up and watching TV cartoons, and all of his music was a big part of The Flintstones, Huckleberry Hound, Ruff 'n' Ready, etc. I listened to this while I drove the car home yesterday and it sure is some good driving music. Via kitschbonbon:
Via Stephen DeStefano:
Here's a terrific conversation between Stephen (a 40+ year veteran cartoonist, has won two Emmys and drawn dozens of comic books) and Columbia's Curator for Comics and Cartoons Karen Green. They talk about her love for comics and how she formed Columbia into a mecca for comics. It was not easy!
Here's the garden as of the first of September. All of the greens are starting to fade. The trees are just now beginning to show some color. There have been a few cool nights; cool enough for a fire in the wood stove.
The garden is showing its age now. The squash vine borers decimated the yellow squash, damn them. Cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes are ripening. The fence, new this year, has done its job of keeping the hungry deer out.
Aaaand ... a few more from the day this past week when we got pelted by hail. Crazy wild hail storm on the New Hampshire/Maine border on the afternoon of August 27th! Lotsa rain and thunder. No harm done, really. And at least the car did not look like the surface of the moon.
Here's a sneak peek of Rea Irvin's THE SMYTHES! This new book, published by the New York Review of Books, is scheduled to be out before the end of the year. Here are some samples of Irvin's clean-line 1930s Sunday newspaper comic strip. The book is edited by R. Kikuo Johnson and Dash Shaw. Caitlin McGurk provides an afterward.
Rea Irvin (1881-1972) had been a newspaper illustrator, a cartoonist, a sometimes actor. Born on the West Coast, he moved to New York City and produced drawings for a variety of publications. In 1924, he was fired from his art director position at Life Magazine and then came aboard the then-new New Yorker magazine. He created its first cover, along with the left hand band on cover, and the typeface for the magazine. He figured the magazine would most likely fold in a couple of issues.
James Thurber: "... [T]he invaluable Irvin, artist, ex-actor, wit, and sophisticate about town and country, did more to develop the style and excellence of The New Yorker's drawings and covers than anyone else, and was the main and shining reason that the magazine's comic art in the first two years was far superior to its humorous prose."
Rea Irvin also created The Smythes, first appearing in the spring of 1930 in the New York Herald Tribune. It would run for six years.
Here are some photos of the book:
From On with Kara Swisher, here's a short interview with two cartoonists, graphic novelist Alison Bechdel (“Fun Home," "Spent") and Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes, discussing free speech, book bans, censorship, and the growing threats artists face today.
American entrepreneur and writer Mort Todd passed away on Sunday. He was 63 years old. No cause of death was noted. My thanks to his longtime friend Rick Parker for reporting this just yesterday.
He was best known as Cracked Magazine's editor-in-chief, as well as Marvel Music. His company. Comicfix, developed licensed properties. He was, if you lived here in New England, a presence at many conventions. He was always enthusiastic and knowledgeable as to what was happening in the comics world. He also always had more than one project going on and plans for more. It's difficult to believe that he is gone at this young age. His legacy will live on.
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