He featured Betty Page in the nude and got arrested in Philadelphia. Archie Goodwin was a young writer for Blazing Combat. With Creepy and Eerie, he wanted to replicate the EC Comics that had been banned. By publishing in a magazine format, he wasn't regulated like the comic market and he attracted artists "not burdened by sanity." The influence for the creation of Vampirella? A girl he fell in love with at the beach who was 12 and he was 14. Would love to have heard a whole hour on the magazine Help that featured R. Crumb, H. Kurtzman, Diane Arbus and had gloria Steinem as an Assistant Editor.
Missed - FAMILY GUY.
GOING APE: CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF THE BEAST AND THE BEAUTY OF KING KONG. El Bicho and I sat through about half of this. It was really just people like us talking about the Kong films. No one involved with the films was there, so there seemed to not be the same energy in the room. The big conclusion - kids love monkeys.
IT'S A GREAT COMIC-CON, CHARLIE BROWN. Essentially, all the voices from the original shows except Linus and Lee Mendelson (exec. producer of every Peanuts special) and Jeannie Schulz (last wife of Sparky). Lots of great memories from the cast who were all kids at the time. Most of them didn't even admit to friends that they were the voices on the shows until later in life. Charles Schulz did over 17,800 Peanuts strips in his life. If he wanted to meet a famous person - he'd do a strip about them and eventually they'd contact him to get a copy. Lee Mendelson had originally only done a documentary on Willie Mays when he hooked up with Sparky and promised that they'd put together a Christmas Special. That first Christmas Special was sponsored by Coca-Cola.
It's explained in a DVD extra shown here that in the original airing - at the beginning when Snoopy is swinging them around by Linus' blanket - Charlie Brown is thrown into the snow bank and the delete scene has Linus thrown into a Coca Cola sign. There are over 40 specials, all together, a few are already out on DVD. The Halloween comes out in September, the You're Not Elected and Thanksgiving and Christmas all arrive in October. The whole library of Peanuts special will be available by the time they're through.
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