We highly recommend: ToonHeads: The Wartime Cartoons, a special which reruns this Sunday on Cartoon Network. It features clips from more than 100 cartoons made during World War II, including four that are shown in their entirety: Blitz Wolf, Scrap Happy Daffy, Herr Meets Hare and Russian Rhapsody. It's a rare look at the way the animation industry mobilized to wave the flag and ridicule Hitler in its cartoons. That's this Sunday on Cartoon Network…at 9PM in most time zones.
The final issue of our current Groo mini-series, Groo: Death and Taxes, is now on sale. I think this is the best Groo series we've ever done ("we" being Sergio Aragonés and myself) and I hope you'll pick it up. And notice that I don't say that about a lot of things I work on.
Last year at the Comic-Con International in San Diego, I moderated twelve panels in four days. This year, I'm currently pencilled in for thirteen, all of which look to be so fascinating, I couldn't say no to a one of 'em. I'll be posting a list of them here as soon as things are finalized. If you're not planning on attending the con this year, plan on attending the con this year.
John Cleese based the character of Basil Fawlty, proprietor of Fawlty Towers, on a real hotelier. The widow of that hotelier has now launched a campaign to convince people that her late husband was not quite the looney portrayed by Cleese. Here's a link.
Want a copy of the Bill of Rights printed on metal? What? You can't imagine why you might want such a thing? Well, here's an article by Penn Jillette (of "…and Teller) that tells you what he's done with his. And here's a link to the website that sells them.