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A musical treat to get everyone in the weekend mood: the Vince Guaraldi Trio perform the Peanuts 'Linus and Lucy' theme in 1964. That's Vince on piano, plus Tom Beeson on bass and John Rae on drums. #jazz #music #comics

Link: youtu.be/9EMfA5_tm8Y?...

Current research for a #magazine commission.
#freelance #journalist

Following on from my previous post, The Phantom gained a Sunday colour strip on 28 May 1939. This is another of the regular backstory recaps, courtesy of creator Lee Falk and his partner on the series, artist Ray Moore. #comics

Happy 90th birthday to Lee Falk's classic newspaper strip The Phantom, which made its debut on 17 February 1936 and is still going strong. Astonishingly, Falk was still working on the series up until his death in March 1999, aged 87. #comics

Dark Horse just released its second oversized hardback gallery of Jack Kirby's cover artwork for Marvel Comics; the first appeared last February and is still available.

@darkhorse.com #comics #artwork

You can withdraw TVL's Common Law right to enter your property (not the house), which should stop their agents coming to your front door (if you have a path or drive), but TVL is now stating it may still visit in case you move or change your mind. Best answer is to just shut the door in their face.

Rather worryingly, Boyd Magers' website Western Clippings (formerly www.westernclippings.com) now redirects to a photography site. I do hope Boyd is okay, and that it's just an accidental oversight.

For those who live beyond these shores, this is the sort of harassment UK households face on a regular basis if they choose not to pay for a BBC #television licence (meaning they're legally barred from watching all BBC output -- and any other channels' live programming, which is frankly immoral).

Three's the charm.

Over at the British Horror Studio, Lawrie Brewster is polling opinions on a potential future project, adapted from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Wouldn't be surprised if he has Megan Themethick ('Miss Amicus') in mind to play Cathy.

#gothic #horror #movies
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Dark Horse has released a paperback edition of 2011's Creepy Presents Bernie Wrightson, collecting all his work at Warren (including Bernie's 1974 collaboration with Bruce Jones, 'Jennifer', later turned into a 2005 Masters of Horror episode directed by Dario Argento). Recommended. #horror #comics

As D D Degg pointed out in today's Daily Cartoonist, #Garfield just hit 50, having made his debut in The Pendleton Times on 8 January 1976. Odie arrived three weeks later.

Jim Davis initially called his strip 'Jon', but Garfield took over on 1 September 1977. Syndication began 19 June 1978. #comics

A couple of souvenirs from my 50+ years active in #sciencefiction #fandom: a membership badge for Friends in Space, the group which met in a London pub in the 1980s; likewise for ConFiction, the 1990 Worldcon (the silver sticker supported Scotland's ultimately successful bid to host the 1995 event).

Nancy debuted in the newspaper #comics strip Fritzi Ritz in January 1933. Created by Larry Whittington in 1922, the series was taken over in 1925 by Ernie Bushmiller. Sluggo joined in 1938, shortly before the strip was renamed. Caroline Cash took the helm earlier this month.

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Behind this striking cover #artwork by Hannes Bok, Bizarre #1 (January 1941) featured both the posthumous debut of H P Lovecraft's 'The Thing in the Moonlight' and the previously unpublished original ending of A Merritt's 1932 novel Dwellers in the Mirage. A second issue was planned, but abandoned.

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Over at his World of Monsters website, John Navroth just posted a short essay on the classic #radio series Suspense, accompanied by a couple of 1940s clippings I supplied from the magazine Radio Album. #thriller #horror

You can read it here: monstermagazineworld.blogspot.com/2026/01/this...

Flesk Publications just released a hardback gallery of #horror #artwork by Bruce Timm. The price is a little steep at $24.95 for 80 pages, although that drops to $19.95 if you order direct. Timm is of course best known for his work in #comics and #animation.

I'm not a serious #autograph collector, although I've gathered a few over the years, but sometimes I see one I can't resist. Case in point: this photo arrived today...

#Hollywood #movies

Bizarro by Wayno, and Dan Piraro.
#cartoons #humour #Batman 🦇 #comics
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Which leg does it raise?

Print appearances include: Yours Retro, SFX, The Dark Side, Critical Wave, Headpress, Mansplat!, Flesh & Blood, Infinity, Fear.

Television incl.: Big Centre TV, Made in Birmingham TV, Birmingham Now.

Radio incl.: BBC Radio 5, BBC Radio WM, Brum Radio.

Blu-ray 'extras' for Grindhouse, Arrow Films.

57 years ago today: Richard M Nixon, 37th President of the United States, spends his first full day in the Oval Office. Somewhere in my attic, I have a British newspaper front page announcing his resignation in August 1974.

Images: The New York Times; White House archive.

Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard.
#cartoons #humour

Happy birthday, Tom!

#TomBaker #DoctorWho

Captures the light nicely.

I would tend to agree, although it did allow the writers to shift from the original plan for Kirk to develop feelings for Rand.

From the episode 'Elaan of Troyius', guest-starring France Nuyen. The yeoman is Jeannie Malone.

Chapel is a key character in several episodes, such as 'What Are Little Girls Made Of?' (when we learn she joined the Enterprise in hope of getting back with her ex) and 'Return to Tomorrow' (sheltering Spock's mind).