Last week, as you’ll remember, I spoke of my reservations, and also those of many others, regarding quasi-comedic spin that’s been put on the character of Green Hornet in its latest incarnation as a big screen property. Especially after previous incarnations reflected more of a straightforward action hero that’s more in line with the character’s…
Lest this column whither on the vine, I’ve decided to share it with whatever limited audience BTTP’s as-yet still-veiled website has. There are no links pointing to this post, so if you found it, you’re either one of my colleagues, or incredibly lucky. So here’s something I thought I’d never write: a Green Hornet column.…
I just learned that last Friday, October 22, 2010, Alex Anderson, the creator of Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle the Moose, passed away at the age of 90. Ale’s credit for creating the characters had faded from public view until he won a 1996 lawsuit to regain credit. He never was actively involved with…
Yep, that’s correct the Great Pumpkin made his first appearance, well to be exact, got his first mention in Charles Schultz’s Peanuts strip on October 26, 1959. Exactly fifty-one (51) years ago today! The Great Pumpkin was mentioned by Schultz’s character Linus and was “featured” in a eight strip/day sequence beginning on October 26th. Linus…
I remember when I started regularly reading comics at age 14, I knew that I potentially faced some resistance to the idea. After all, back then at least, most kids read comics at a younger age, and in most cases had given them up before their teen years. And many adults felt that comics weren’t…
I am going to get this right out in the open, I hate 3D movies. I think that they are a gimmick that at best, dresses up a weak movie, (as is the case for Avatar,) and at worst, unnecessarily raises the ticket price on a bad movie so that the studio might be able…
It’s another sad day, because Art Clokey, animator and creator or Gumby has passed away at the age of 88. Art created the pop-cultural character, Gumby, the asparagus green and made of clay figure, a half-century ago, in 1955. He had previously created a cartoon short, actually a jazz video, in clay, called Gumbasia. This was seen…