Remember when magazines had illustrations? I picked up this pulp magazine for $1 at a local flea market just for the cover. It's not the...

Hey, look what my father-in-law gave me! Eight mm and Super Eight mm movies ! Three minute cut-downs of feature-length movies! In the DVD a...

You know, there's too much going on in our lives. I just don't mean getting our jobs done every week, petting the puppy, driving the...

New post here today and the introduction to my Fleischer book is on the Made of Pen and Ink blog. Can Robin Williams find a good script? The...

Western Mass. readers who are also film fans should make a date to attend this free show. When the script calls for a film to be set in a bu...

I've started an experiment at a new blog titled Made of Pen and Ink. It's the first draft of my book on Max and Dave Fleischer, thei...

This week it's time to catch up with the torrent of DVD releases that are coming to a store near you. Magdelena's Brain In the inter...

I've meant to post something about our trip to Scotland Mary and I took in March, but haven't gotten around to it until one of our ...

Sometimes what I write here helps me construct my column for the newspapers I edit. Here's an example. You never know what is going to ...

And Carlos was a nice guy! The deputies of Reno 911! are back – on television and on DVD. The fourth season of the popular comic police s...

My wife and I have been on vacation this week and have been out of the state and away from computers for part of that time. Here are some ob...

The Curse of Superman? Believe it or not, some of the TV entertainment shows are bringing up the old chestnut that there is a curse assigne...

Here is a Superman model sheet to instruct artist how to draw his face ( in two images) I think the thing people forget is just how much a ...

Marky Mark asked what I thought of the controversy over the deletion of the words "American way" from a description of what Superm...

Here's a model sheet from the Superman cartoon Terror on the Midway Directed by Dan Gordon, Terror on the Midway boasts of some great n...

With the opening of the new Superman film, I thought it would be appropriate to post a number of items over the next few days from the first...

Wisdom from Springer’s mouth to your eyes There are not many definitive statements in life these days, but part of the conventional wisdom...

Popeye on DVD at last!? (seem here is the late, great Jack Mercer, the man who was Popeye's voice for almost 50 years) The announcement ...

Why is the hot dog neglected? The sultan of sausage is loved by American young and old and yet aside form Nathan's there are no national...

A pirate double feature and a camp classic are in this week's DVD column. Mommie Dearest: Hollywood Royalty Edition The studios what r...