I don't have cable right now so I'm rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I'd like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them--something like when James 
Let's say you're the newly-sentient internet. How would you decipher
the meaning of all the bits and bytes whizzing past you? And what about
the real world outside your electronic realm?
Former Comics Editor, Guy Leshinski
has very kindly given us permission to reprint a prophetic interview
with Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2005. Will Bryan Lee O'Malley attain the
Holy Grail of cartoonists? As Bryan says, "We'll see..."
Results tagged “Miami” from The Cultural Gutter
Rule One: Entertain Me!
This month we're mixing it up at the Gutter with each editor writing
about something outside their usual domain. This week James Schellenberg
writes about tv.
I'm a demanding SOB: I want to be entertained. I want shallow, repetitive, and sheer fun, but I also want a little depth, moments of substance, some flair or style, something that lasts. I want it all, but most basically, I always want that kernel of great storytelling. Easy to demand, difficult to deliver!
That's why I like Burn Notice. It's the cheesy, unpretentious show that delivers the goods again and again.
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A Hero's Return
Some may regard the birth of the superhero as June, 1938 with Action Comics #1. But while the fantastic popularity of the Man of Steel did have a profound effect on how "Hero" stories were told ever after, there were supermen already at work, protecting the dark alleys and gas-lit streets of Depression-era America with pre-comics-code rough justice. Doc Savage, The Spider, The Avenger, Operator #5 -- each patrolled the coarse-paper world of the Pulp Magazine. Each brought their own brand of law to the lawless, often with a .45 barking in each clenched fist. And perhaps the greatest of them all was The Shadow.
Continue reading...
Rule One: Entertain Me!
This month we're mixing it up at the Gutter with each editor writing
about something outside their usual domain. This week James Schellenberg
writes about tv.I'm a demanding SOB: I want to be entertained. I want shallow, repetitive, and sheer fun, but I also want a little depth, moments of substance, some flair or style, something that lasts. I want it all, but most basically, I always want that kernel of great storytelling. Easy to demand, difficult to deliver!
That's why I like Burn Notice. It's the cheesy, unpretentious show that delivers the goods again and again.
Continue reading...
A Hero's Return
Some may regard the birth of the superhero as June, 1938 with Action Comics #1. But while the fantastic popularity of the Man of Steel did have a profound effect on how "Hero" stories were told ever after, there were supermen already at work, protecting the dark alleys and gas-lit streets of Depression-era America with pre-comics-code rough justice. Doc Savage, The Spider, The Avenger, Operator #5 -- each patrolled the coarse-paper world of the Pulp Magazine. Each brought their own brand of law to the lawless, often with a .45 barking in each clenched fist. And perhaps the greatest of them all was The Shadow.Continue reading...
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