JOSEPH BARBERA, 1911-2006
I met the legendary cartoon producer-mogul circa 1993, at a gallery opening during the height of the collectible-animation-cel craze. He could recite every Tom and Jerry short scene-for-scene, but had...
View ArticleLAST NIGHT’S…
…impromptu Vanishing Seattle book signing was a smashing success. I met many old and new friends, and Epilogue Books sold all but one of the copies they had in stock. Fret not, however: A fresh batch...
View ArticleSHOCKING SIGHT OF THE DAY
Wednesday’s Seattle Times devotes its entire above-the-fold front page to a warning announcement, in six languages, pleading with people in de-electrified homes not to generate carbon-monoxide fumes...
View ArticleLAST NIGHT’S SECOND HUGE…
…Vanishing Seattle signing party was even more spectacular and better-attended than the first. Epilogue Books had one copy at the end of Monday’s event. It got 40 more copies by Tuesday evening. Only...
View ArticleMORE LOCAL STORES…
…report selling out of Vanishing Seattle. Thanks to you all, it’s become the surprise local bestseller of the season. Epilogue Books in Ballard will have approximately three dozen copies at 10 a.m....
View ArticleWE HONOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON…
…with probably the best Christmas cartoon from the Golden Age of the movies, Hugh Harman’s Peace on Earth. (This is the one where the last battle that destroys the human race is the war between the...
View ArticleAW SHUCKS DEPT.
Peter Donahue has written a positively gushing review of Vanishing Seattle in the Seattle Times today. It’s just too lovely.
View ArticleTWENTY-OH-SEVEN, SHAKEN NOT STIRRED
It’s the madcap return of the MISCmedia In/Out List. As always, this, the most accurate In/Out list published anywhere, compiles what will become hot and less-hot in the upcoming year, not necessarily...
View ArticleVANISHING SEATTLE UPDATE
As a year begins, our new book remains sold out at many area stores. Some were out of copies even before last Wednesday’s rave Seattle Times review. You can still order it online; and you can email me...
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HOPING FOR HOPE ITSELF
Some time last year, I had a discussion with a Pacific Publishing bigwig, over whether Capitol Hill is or isn’t a real “neighborhood” or was just a jumble of subcultures and “tribes” sharing the same...
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