Tony Millionaire’s characters may look cute, but that initial impression won’t last long once you see them get drunk and bloodily lop each other’s heads off. Drawn in a detailed style reminiscent of classic Little...
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A trip to Dinosaur Land, circa 1970s
When it comes to dinosaurial vacation getaways, you can keep your Jurassic Parks. Give me the original: Dinosaur Land! Located at “the intersection of 277, 522, and 340 between Winchester and Front Royal...
The self-made animator: Joel Trussell’s unlikely start in the cartoon business
How do you become a professional animator? The typical first step, after graduating from art school, may be to relocate to Los Angeles and start networking. And then do lots and lots of begging for work. But if moving...
Reassessing: ‘Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog’ (2008), an Internet-age artifact that still holds up
Remember when Hollywood was going to take over the Internet? It was announced in the late ’90s, not too long after the Web was discovered to be popular among computer users. Naturally, the entertainment establishment...
Sid & Marty Krofft’s psychedelic legacy remains lodged in our brains. But will new generations of kids be warped?
Saturday morning cartoons don’t mean much in the streaming-media age, but for several generations of kids, they were a weekly window into other (more fun) worlds. And no worlds were more bizarre and potentially...
Q&A: Mixmaster Mike’s beastly career as the ultimate turntabilist
Mixmaster Mike (aka, Michael Schwartz) is one of the most renowned turntablists in the DJ world. In 1992, he was the first West Coast scratch artist to win the New Music Seminar DJ Battle for World Supremacy in New York...
Tiki Torchbearer: Tim “Swanky” Glazner’s quest to make America fall in love again with the polynesian lifestyle
Since this story was first published, Tim Glazner’s decade of tiki research at last culminated in a lavish coffee-table book on the history of tiki and its ultimate temple, the Mai-Kai. Published in 2016, Mai...
Q&A: Jerry Beck, the animation historian who helped preserve Looney Tunes
Jerry Beck became a cartoon expert the hard way–before the Internet existed, before there was such a thing as home video, and before studios really even cared about their large archives of ‘toons. In 1981, Beck...
FUTURAMA: A tour of GM’s vision for the all-new, redesigned America of 1960
In 1939, the future didn’t look so bright. The U.S. was still mired in The Depression and Hitler’s invasion of Poland foreshadowed world conquest and inevitable war. Yet, despite of these bleak times, the...
Reassessing: ‘Wolfenstein: The New Order’ (2014) saves Sgt. Blazkowicz
Castle Wolfenstein is my safe place. I’m very familiar with its deadly halls, having traversed them as a scrappy private on one of my first campaigns on the Apple II. In the early ’80s, combat was a game of...