Vintage Pop

ICv2 reports that IDW plans to reprint Harold Grey’s Little Orphan Annie.

Dean Mullaney, who is editing the new reprint edition of Milton Caniff’s classic Terry & the Pirates comic strip for IDW, has informed ICv2 that his next project with IDW will be a similar reprinting of Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie.  [...]
 
With Dick Tracy, [...]

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All the hip kids are pointing to Shorpy, a new old kind of photo blog. According to the site:
Shorpy.com is a photo blog about what life a hundred years ago was like: How people looked and what they did for a living, back when not having a job usually meant not eating. We’re starting with [...]

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The comics section used to be one of the most important pieces of the newspaper. The comics were filled with fun, humor, and adventure. Comics sold papers.
More recently, the comics have become something papers carry grudgingly. They’re often dull and unfunny. They’ve been shrunk to postage stamp size. The life has gone out of [...]

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One of my goals is to see every Academy Award nominee for Best Picture. I mean all of them. From day one. For now, though, I’m content with just catching up on the winners. To that end, I recently watched Grand Hotel for the first time.
Grand Hotel, from 1932, won the fifth Academy Award for [...]

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Grumblebee, one of my Metafilter cohorts, recently posted this recollection:

When I was a kid, my dad, who grew up in London, during the Blitz, used to play this old record: a song called “The Laughing Policeman.” It always put a smile on my face.
According to Wikipedia, it was written in 1922 by Charles Jolly, who [...]

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Ephemera, a blog “exploring the world of old paper, recently published an an interview with Linda and Stan Zielinski, the authors of the Children’s Picturebook Price Guide. According to Amazon:
[This book] provides values for nearly 23,000 books, covering over 700 children’s book illustrators dating from 1929 to 2006. For owners of picturebooks, the price guide [...]

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After months of hemming and hawing, I’m ready to take this site live. I’ve moved the “sandbox” entries that were here to another location, have written a couple of posts for the coming weeks, and will now beging the work of choosing and modifying a template for this site. Over then next few weeks I’ll [...]

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