Mark Evanier has the bizarre, disturbing news. When King Features licensed Popeye and Blondie out to slot-machine companies, I wondered what might be next. Now I know.

Let’s hope that Larry Flynt doesn’t have any interest in acquiring the rights to Krazy Kat…

I’m pleased and relieved to report that I’ve finally finished a major update to Scrappyland, the leading Web site on the greatest cartoon character who almost everyone has forgotten.

I’m guessing that there’s something close to double the original content now–I’ve added information on the Scrappy magazine I mentioned here a few weeks back, areas on [...]

This just in: The films of Harold Lloyd, which have only rarely been as easy to see as they should be, will soon be out on DVD.

What with the planned remake of Safety Last and the recent publication of a book of Lloyd’s, um…3D nude photography, there’s a veritable Lloyd renaissance in the works–or at [...]

I dug these out and scanned them this weekend for the excellent Yahoo Group JohnStanleyComixGenius, and might as well share them here: Here are two sketches that John Stanley did for me in 1976 at Newcon in Boston. I was 12 at the time; Stanley was at his first (and almost only) comics convention appearance.

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Legendary animation guru (and friend of Harry-Go-Round) Jim Korkis writes with a comment on Scrappy’s Own Everyday Motto:

Harry–I am sure that others will point out that Scrappy’s Own Motto looks very similar to the “Mickey Mouse Club Creed” which was on the back of the official membership cards for the original Mickey Mouse Club in [...]

Just to prove that I really am working on a major update to Scrappyland–it’ll be up soon, I swear–here’s a sneak preview. Scrappy’s Own Magazine featured “Scrappy’s Own Everyday Motto,” a sort of alternate-reality, kid-oriented Pledge of Allegiance. Here it is–everybody please stand at attention, salute, and read it in unison:

Scrappy’s Own Everyday Motto

I will [...]

Sometimes Google thinks your site is about stretchpants. Other times, it takes a phrase like “visit toyko”–for which you’d think that the obvious #1 site would relate to a Japanese tourism board or somesuch, and that one random person’s brief notes on a 2003 trip would account for very little–and gives these results.