A Picture’s Worth

Contents ©2012 Mike Pascale. Pictures copyright their respective owners. I know I teased last week the second part of my Trip To Hollywood with the Warner Brothers Studio tour, but I gotta be timely with these things and Ghost Rider is all the rage. (Literally, as in causing lots of rage in and out of … Continue reading →

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By Mike Pascale ©2012. All photos ©2012 Mike Pascale. Other pics ©2012 their respective owners.   Last week my wife and I took a drive down south to the entertainment–and traffic–capital of the world, the planet Hollywood. Not the restaurant, but the city. If you’ve been there, you know it’s really a world unto its … Continue reading →

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  Wow, what a week. Three big stories. Let’s start with the least positive and go from there.         #1 – Apparently DC is launching a prequel/sequel to its popular Watchmen story, created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. (Right there, notice something you won’t see in any other blog on the … Continue reading →

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  Another bit of fodder for my relationship of ambivalence (re: love-hate) toward Internet communication. I saw a mention of an beautiful and exciting new art book on Facebook, with a link to a news article. I clicked on the news article, fell in love with the book and decided to immediately pre-order one, as … Continue reading →

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Contents ©2012 Mike Pascale All pictures copyright their respective owners. (If you are an owner of any image and would like it removed, just ask.) Here’s another angle to digital comics that I think has been ignored or under-explored. While everyone else explores the economic factor ad nauseum, there’s a bigger consideration. One of the … Continue reading →

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Contents ©2012 Mike Pascale. All pictures copyright their respective owners. I’m neck-deep in storyboards for the next couple weeks, so the next few columns will be short. Appropriate for any discussion of a new year is new formats. Comics are no stranger to this, as there are not only Web comics and Kindle comic editions … Continue reading →

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Okay, welcome to part two of two regarding the new/leap year. While last week we focused on last year, this week is for this year (how grammatically synergistic can ya get?) We’ve all been bombarded with plenty of Mayan calendar/Nostril-damn-us boom ‘n’ doom overkill as well as the upcoming Prez election, so I won’t bother. … Continue reading →

Well, goodbye (and in many ways good riddance) to 2011! Hello to 2000-plus-a-dozen, aka 2012, aka Year That Time Ended. Or something like that. I hope you and yours had fun and stayed safe for the big party night (and college bowl day). There are a couple ways I like to have fun on New … Continue reading →

Howdy! Hope every one of you had a merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah week. Or whatever you celebrated that didn’t involve anything illegal. As mentioned in last year’s final blog, every morning I write down three things for which I’m thankful. I keep a pad and pen next to the bed and write them upon … Continue reading →

This is getting morbid. No sooner did I write about Jerry Robinson’s passing as an “alarming trend of late”, did I learn about the passing of yet another great, Joe Simon (as well as Eduardo Baretto, with whose work I’m sadly unfamiliar. I hope to rectify that next year). Just like Jerry, Joe had a … Continue reading →

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In what has become an alarmingly common trend the last few years, yet another Golden Age Great has met Life’s deadline. The multi-skilled and many-talented Jerry Robinson joined his peers in a world away from ours. He went silently in his sleep–good for him but bad for us. A peaceful, uneventful end to an exciting, … Continue reading →

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A few years ago, my pal Andy who owns the Back to The Past Pop Culture Warehouse moved from a rented spot in Livonia to his current building in Redford, Michigan (just north of Detroit). The building had an odd looking “garage” door which was filled with panels. Since this door would be permanently closed … Continue reading →

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