Tag: comedy

RIP, Peter Falk

Actor Peter Falk has died.  He was probably best known as Grandpa in The Princess Bride and Lt. Columbo in Columbo, but he worked for Frank Capra, Nicholas Ray, John Cassavetes, Wim Wenders, Robert Altman and Robert Wise.  And gave probably the finest performance ever at The Dean […]

RIP, Gene Colan

Comics artist Gene Colan has died.  He was best known for his work on Marvel’s The Tomb of Dracula, but he started at DC drawing Namor, the Sub-Mariner and worked with Steve Gerber on Howard the Duck.  The Guardian has an obituary with more on his life and […]

Piracy’s Double-Edged Cutlass

The power of piracy and viral success of Go The Fuck To Sleep (a children’s book for adults): “Piracy, it seems, is what has driven the book’s real-world, money-making, flying-off-the-shelves success. The bootleg copy hasn’t replaced the actual artifact. It has only served as a sort of free […]