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When in Madrid, Hang With Bugs and Daffy

I’m in Madrid for work, and if I were in town just a little bit longer, I might try to get to Parque Warner, which is–yup–an amusement park with a Warner Bros. theme. It’s got attractions devoted to Bugs Bunny, Pato Lucas (aka Daffy Duck), Abuelita (Tweety–does that mean he’s a girl over here?), and [...]

Hey, That’s Me!

I’ve published original art here before–but I don’t think any of that art was of…well, me.

This piece is by John Cuneo, the wonderful artist who draws for Esquire, GQ, The New Yorker, and many other publications, including, I’m glad to say, PC World. Why he recently did a watercolor of me and sent it to [...]

Lamb Chop Lives!

A measurable percentage of the performers on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon this year were ventriloquists. Which is OK by me–and especially so considering that one of them was Mallory Lewis, daughter of Shari Lewis.

On paper, the idea of Shari Lewis’s daughter performing with Lamb Chop sounds like a bad idea. For my money, Shari [...]

Stunt Casting

He’s one of Hollywood’s most enduring stars. Early in his career, he played a famous comic strip character. And a new movie’s about to be released in which he plays another creation from the funny pages.

You know who he is from the photo above, and probably know his first comic-strip role. But If you can [...]

World Exclusive!

Breaking news in the world of online animation scholarship: Dave Mackey, author of essential works of research like this and this, crossword puzzle author, and my friend of close to two decades, has been visiting San Francisco with his girlfriend Tracy Meyer and her kids. But he’s going home with…his fiancée Tracy Meyer and her [...]

Jerry-Go-Round

Sunday night at 6pm San Francisco time, as is our annual custom, we’ll be hanging out in the Chat-O-Torium while watching the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon together and enjoying performances by Charo, Norm Crosby, and Garry Lewis and the Playboys*, among others. Well, I hope we will, at least–the telethon will be live by then, [...]