R.C. Harvey writes solid, incisive articles and books on comic art. You can read some of the former and order most of the latter at his website, which is reachable by clicking…oh, let's have you click right here. I don't want to slight his other works as I gush over his most recent release, which is Accidental Ambassador Gordo: The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola. It's both a sampler of a splendid, underrated newspaper strip and a biography of the fine cartoonist who produced it for an astounding 44 years. (It's also a mystery: Why was this sweet, wonderful strip in so few papers and so often overlooked by the cartooning community?) Anyway, you can buy the book many places but if you buy it from Bob's site, he'll sign it for you and you can order his other volumes while you're at it. I suggest you do this.
I get my computer equipment from a gent named Bill Goldstein who is that rarity: An expert who really is an expert…and is honest, to boot. If you live anywhere near L.A., I highly recommend Bill for all your computer needs. If you don't live near L.A., you oughta at least visit his website and read up on how to delete personal files from a computer before you give it to someone else. In fact, you might like to view a short segment Bill did on a local news broadcast, which you can also do on his page. They went to thrift shops and Bill took donated computers and restored all the allegedly-deleted data (financial files, passwords, etc.) of the donors to demonstrate how easy it sometimes can be. It'll make you go racing to reclaim that antique 286 you gave to your nephew.
Scott Shaw! and Jerry Beck confirm my belief that Hanna-Barbera never produced a Car 54 cartoon show. The studio tried to sell one, as witness the presentation art over on the Car 54 website…but, like most studios, H-B tried to sell hundreds of shows that never made it to actual production. Scott and I got to recalling some of the weirder ones we'd witnessed and/or worked on…and I suspect we'll do an article somewhere about them. Some were just as bizarre as (awkward segue to plug:) anything you'll find in Scott's Monday-thru-Friday Oddball Comics column over on Comic Book Resources. It is, like Scott, always entertaining…and hard to forget.