That reminds me of the infamous testimony of William Gaines, publisher of EC Comics (Tales From the Crypt, Mad, etc.), in the '50s Senate hearings that led to the Comics Code:

I will forever be grateful to the Bill & Ted comics for introducing me to Evan Dorkin. Those comics were terrific. This may be the nostalgia talking, but I say they're better than the movies.

It's true - Schulz's characters are deceptively hard to draw. Very few lines, but if one is even slightly mislaid, the end result looks not just wrong but horribly wrong. I'm dubious about the movie, but at least they preserved the qualities of Schulz's line.

That's become the conventional view of the strip, but I think it's been oversold and does Schulz no favors. Like comics critic R. Fiore wrote, "The way some people write about Peanuts you'd think it was The Sorrows of Young Charlie." Schulz's use of melancholy set Peanuts apart, but dip into the strip at any point and…

That was beautiful. Here, have an Abbott & Costello LP.

"When Chet started out, he had everything. He was handsome, had a likeable personality, a tremendous musical gift. He threw it all away for drugs. To me, the man started out as James Dean and ended up as Charles Manson."
—Steve Allen

Those aren't all that bounce!

Looks like they've already released a trailer:

Yeah, I remember Al saying, when he put the song out for free online, that he wouldn't have done even that much if it had been Blunt himself who objected.

"“We stare into each other’s eyes / Like jack dogs, like ravens,”
I haven't heard the album, but I'm going to guess that the lyric is probably 'jackdaws', a kind of crow, rather than 'jack dogs'. But then, Yorke has sung stranger things.

He ought to take some of that purported $500,000 and actually pay the poor saps he's inveigled into doing his creative work for him. His little franchise mill's contracts are about one step up from "We can't pay, but it'll be great exposure!" See here: http://nymag.com/arts/books…

People like that should be put to sleep.

I wouldn't say that Weasels Ripped My Flesh is similar to Hot Rats. Weasels was sort of a sampler record Frank assembled after breaking up the Mothers, and it's got all kinds of weirdness on it - goofy conducted improvisation, a beautiful R&B cover, electronic noise, and a finale that consists of nothing but blaring…

Geez, calm down. You sound like the Zen Pencils guy. MST3K was not a mean-spirited show - at least, not during Joel's tenure. I do think it curdled a bit as it went on, and I'll agree that the Diabolik episode illustrated that. The movie is roughly equivalent to Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy - an over-the-top comic strip…

"Who will take over The Colbert Report?
No one. It’s called The Colbert Report, not the Some Jackass Report."
Why not? After all, 'Stephen Colbert' is just a character. I think it would be great if, just for a couple days, they tried to palm off another actor as 'Colbert', Bewitched-style.

Meanwhile, in the background of that photo, Dean Pelton takes note of some spiffy costume ideas.

Is this show going to be broadcast in color? If so, why?

IMDB voters really love Charlie Sheen.

These ratings would have us believe that Mystery Science Theater did nothing but improve until its very end. I've never warmed to the Sci-Fi channel run, but it must have younger and more vocal fans.

I know the show only from the classic parody in the original Mad, Captain TVideo.