Almost everything of note that I bought at this year’s San Diego Con used to belong to Pete Burness, apparently. Besides the Scrappy art, I picked up a promotional booklet for The Bullwinkle Show–Sing Along With Bullwinkle Meets Santa Claus:

For me at least, the whole Jay Ward sensibility has a profoundly Cold War-era feel to [...]

When it comes to cartoon-related matters, I’ve always had a bizarre knack for being in the right place at the right time. But this is silly. I’ve just learned that the Disney family (and specifically Diane Disney Miller and Ron Miller, who are San Franciscans these days) intend to build a Walt Disney Family Museum, [...]

I don’t know how much original Scrappy production art survives–for all I know, Columbia has a vaultful of the stuff–but it’s safe to say that it’s not exactly plentiful on the open market. I do own one piece that seems to have been prepared for a book. In all my time as a collector of [...]

I’m sure there’s scads of post-con reporting going on that I’m not reading, so I’m not sure if this is common knowledge, but here goes: I attended a “talk back” session at the close of the con, and the organizers said they’re contemplating the possibility of only letting pre-registered attendees in on Saturday next year.

They [...]

This may be–for me, at least–the year that the San Diego Con got too big. I haven’t heard any word on attendance, but I seem to have spent more time than ever more or less trapped in show-floor traffic that’s just not going anywhere. One panel I wanted to go to–not obviously a huge crowd-pleaser–was [...]

I’m at Comic-Con, though so far it feels like it wouldn’t be entirely inappropriate to rename this event Family Guy Toy Con. More later…

Well, it’s been an odd and interesting weekend, cartoon-wise. I had lunch at one Fleischer-themed restaurant, a couple of miles from my house–and learned that another such establishment existed decades ago.

I wrote about Betty Boop’s Diner in Union Square back in February, and ate there shortly thereafter–and found the experience so unremarkable that I forgot [...]