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When you discover something that you’ve never seen before, there is a thrill — probably what Columbus felt when the lookout hollered “Land HO!”

Víctor E. Pazmiño was not just some hired pencil who put the funny animals on the page to beat a deadline.  His figures are action-packed, never static.  His layouts were revolutionary for their time — breaking out of panels and overlapping.

This talent is so big, Joyville devoted two columns to it.  Follow the link to the first one and when you’ve found you haven’t had enough, go look at the second one too!

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I assume that when seeing the title to this post, most fans of DC Comics immediately think of the shapeshifting, fire-hating martian, J’onn J’onzz who made hist first appearance in Detective Comics #225 (November 1955).  Indeed, some call this character DC’s first Silver Age superhero.  Other DC fans might think back a couple of years […]
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Have you ever been interested in scoring a film or TV show?

 

Composer Scott Starret has been providing the soundtrack for NBC’s new series The Event.

The official ASCAP blog has a video interview with the composer by  Etan Rosenbloom, Membership/Marketing Associate and Blog Coordinator

Highly Recommended.

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Here’s some trivia for you: The term “bus boy” is derived from “omnibus boy.”  Yes, sexist though it seems, in days of old, a restaurant had a lot of things to be done, so they would hire a “boy” to clean off tables, gather the used dishes and cart them to the kitchen, sweep or mop the floor, empty ash trays, and whatever else needed done.

It may not sound like great entertainment for us to watch or read about, but you should nip over to Barnacle Press and read Omnibus Boy, set in a diner about a century ago.

And if anybody ever figures out what his name is — drop me a line.  I don’t think it’s mentioned anywhere in the body of work.

Another winner from BarnaclePress

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