Babe Ruth When it comes to anomalies in music, Babe Ruth, is no stranger to this category. Their success, and I use that word very loosely, “The Mexican” their main song did not exactly eat up the charts in the early 70’s. The Mexican is the story of the Alamo coupled with Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack […]
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Wimpy Kid is not so wimpy after all. A few months ago we did a little feature on Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, author and illustrator of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Jeff Kinney is an online game developer and designer. Diary of a Wimpy Kid […]
Inside Woody Allen How can you turn mundane into a popular comic strip, and how many newspaper strips are based on a real life Hollywood actor. Stumped? Inside Woody Allen, was first published in 1976 and ran until 1984. This would be the longevity of Allen’s geek popularity on pop culture. For eight years newspapers […]
Monopoly Electronic Banking Edition In 1935 when North America was in the throws of a recession, the world was introduced to Monopoly. As banks were repossessing houses and depleted of their own cash reservoirs. The game turned paupers into bankers and real estate tycoons with fake money. Now in the year 2007 when recession is […]
Lego Digital Designer Let go of Lego. Now you can build virtual Lego world of your own without owning any Lego pieces. If you are some kind of Lego fanatic, you can plan your Lego construction in virtual space and transplant it with your real Lego pieces. Did I mention that Lego Digital Designer is free. You […]
Betsy and Me Having mastered comic books and gag cartoons, in 1958 Jack Cole set his sights on the cartoonist’s pot of gold—a syndicated newspaper strip. He hit the bull’s-eye with Betsy and Me, a breezy domestic farce focusing on a middle-class urban couple and their smart-aleck genius son. Betsy and Me was an […]
Gerry Alvarez of The Gruesomes keeps the garage rock spirit alive with Candy Prankster, a psychedelic pop album rooted in passion and raw sound.
Jerry Alten started as Art Director of TV Guide in 1967, and for almost 50 years he engaged the world s greatest illustrators to provide the artwork for the pages of the widest circulated magazine in the world. Unlike entertainment magazines today, the digest-sized magazine relied almost solely on illustration, and in many cases, […]
The brothers Wachowski gave USA Today exclusive pictures of their latest movie “Speed Racer“. There is promise with the duo’s track record with their Matrix movies, but with a hit and miss failure with the latest crop of comic/animated related films, it remains to be seen. It’s hard to judge right now, but some of the still […]
Katzenjammer Kids is celebrating 110 years of syndication and still holds the record of the longest running comic strip ever. It first saw print in 1897 on December 12th. It is still being published by King Features, not much jubilee to ceremonialize the event at their end. Long gone is the luster of the strip, […]
Eye Mind: The Saga of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, The Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound Call it superstitious or silly, many tall buildings do not have a 13th floor so Roky Erickson played on this idea giving birth to the first psychedelic rock group called the 13th Floor Elevators. Somebody should have told […]
Eye Mind: The Saga of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, The Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound Call it superstitious or silly, many tall buildings do not have a 13th floor so Roky Erickson played on this idea giving birth to the first psychedelic rock group called the 13th Floor Elevators. Somebody should have told […]