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Gahan Wilson’s Sunday Funnies

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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Each one of us picks a few things to glom on to as a child, a movie or a piece of clothing or even a kind of food, and those things become part of the furniture we carry around upstairs. Cartoonist Gahan Wilson—think Charles Addams, but infinitely more threatening and hallucinatory—is definitely in my own [...]

What would be in YOUR library of 1,000 books?

Monday, March 15, 2010

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This post, like every other, blurts to you from the mouth of my book-lined cave, situated a mere six blocks from the el grande wetness here in Santa Monica. With a bright public library just down the street and the cyber-servant flickering in front of my nose, a personal library seems like a bit of [...]

Interesting People: Tom Wolfe on Clay Felker

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

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Outside of the magazine business, few have heard of editor Clay Felker (1925-2008). Some of this is the nature of the product; magazines tend to age like eclairs, and when was the last time you heard of a famous baker? But from 1963 to 1977, Felker’s weekly New York was always hot and fresh, and [...]

How to fix Playboy–and magazines in general

Friday, January 16, 2009

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I happened across this excellent article from Salon, written upon the ascension of James Kaminsky to the editorship of Playboy in 2002. It’s right on the money, as far as–what the best magazines used to be; –why that worked for them, artistically AND financially;–why they changed to what they are now;–and why that destroys them, [...]

My funny friend Jack Silbert

Thursday, December 18, 2008

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Jack and I worked together at Scholastic Classroom Magazines for a brief, magical time in the 90s. He’s a very funny writer–here are a couple of recent pieces… http://www.saltinwound.com/2008/12/thursday-in-dark-with-jorge.html http://www.saltinwound.com/2008/12/another-week-another-movie-another.html Enjoy!

Judging a “book” by its cover

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

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I’m taking a break from writing (blogging in particular) for the summer and maybe longer. But there is a controversy afoot, a tiny little tornado in a teacup that, like the ringing of Pavlov’s bell, has wrung an inevitable response from me. I’m just as God made me, folks, a simple satirist and ex-magazine person [...]

Clay Felker, RIP

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

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Legendary editor Clay Felker has died at 82; here’s the NYT obit. Along with his one-time Esquire-mate Harold Hayes, Felker has always been a bit of a hero of mine. His New York continued in the 70s what Hayes had demonstrated in the 60s: the vision of a magazine as a beautiful, lively, important thing. [...]

Attention all lovers of D&D

Sunday, March 30, 2008

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In some random gambolings around the internet, I unearthed this great piece about E. Gary Gygax from The Believer. As I was reading, I could almost smell my pal’s mildewy basement rec room (along with the lingering scents of sexual frustration and Doritos). Looking back, I’m sure that much of Barry Trotter was lifted directly [...]

Man after my own heart

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

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Believe me, fella–I understand.

Spy and Kong

Saturday, December 23, 2006

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Here’s my friend Dave Etkin’s e-Christmas card. Always a treat. Todd Jackson has an in-depth interview with Kurt Andersen here. Fascinating, for the seven or eight of us who like that sort of thing. There’s a puzzling insistence on Mad Magazine as Spy‘s forebear, when Spy‘s lineage is obvious: Private Eye filtered through the graphic [...]

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Posts Tagged with "Magazines"

Gahan Wilson’s Sunday Funnies

What would be in YOUR library of 1,000 books?

Interesting People: Tom Wolfe on Clay Felker

How to fix Playboy–and magazines in general

My funny friend Jack Silbert

Judging a “book” by its cover

Clay Felker, RIP

Attention all lovers of D&D

Man after my own heart

Spy and Kong

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