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James Wolcott on George Lois

The latest issue of Vanity Fair–a magazine which always gives me the bizarre feeling that it’s ashamed to be TOO interesting–has a neat profile of legendary ad man and art director George Lois. Lois’ covers for Esquire in the Sixties should be required viewing for anybody interested in magazines (and Carol Polsgrove’s history, “It Wasn’t [...]

Excellent bit of satire from ex-Python Terry Jones here.

If the Gettysburg Address was done in Powerpoint

People say it’s old, but it was new to me. Click here. Terrific.

What IS it about these people?

And the early front-runner for the 2003 Kinsley Award for Outstanding Arrogance in Publishing is Deborah Treisman, current fiction editor of The New Yorker! There’s a stimulating commentary by John Warner in the Dallas Morning News, where he discusses the recent statement by Treisman saying that they never read the slush pile anymore. She said, [...]

There’s a new book about the underground comix movement, reviewed in the Village Voice. As I’ve ventilated you all on this topic recently, I won’t reiterate at length my preference for the old-time underground comix produced in the Sixties and early Seventies to the much blander, depressive and depressing alternative comics of today. Suffice to [...]

Are they sure it wasn’t the show?

Apparently ABC execs aren’t going to allow liquor to be consumed on the set of Jimmy Kimmel’s new talk show, after a female fan vomited too close to a Disney honcho. Here’s the full story.

Satire, UK-style

In England, there is satire about things other than celebrities. Some veterans of the late, lamented Establishment (for a few short years in the Sixties, the UK’s version of Second City) did an hour-long mockumentary called “Iraq and a Hard Place,” which you can read about (and download, if you have a fast connection). It’s [...]

Here’s an interesting, if skimmable, overview of controversy in the comics. Also, Jason Meyer sends this link, a gallery of great subverted propanganda posters. Some of them are really funny.

I always KNEW I liked Janeane Garofalo

She’s opposing our hotheaded rush to war; and putting her career where her mouth is. Check it out.

Just read an interesting interview with the head of The Onion’s excellent A/V section. Combining serious coverage with comedy content was a new idea in 1993 when they started doing it. (And was a primary feature of the “comedy Rolling Stone” I was pitching to magazine companies in Manhattan.) But the interesting thing would be to [...]