oldloves:

Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:

“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.

So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”

We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know. 

And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.

It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”

- from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

fantagraphics:

‘Tain’t the Meat… It’s the Humanity! and Other Stories (The EC Comics Library)
by Jack Davis & Al Feldstein

224-page black & white 7.25” x 10.25” hardcover • $28.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-578-5

Ships in: March 2013 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now

See more images in our Flickr set.

With its pitch-perfect blend of laughs, terror, and gore, as delineated by some of the finest cartoonists to ever draw a rotting, reanimated corpse, Tales from the Crypt (1950-1955, R.I.P.) remains the quintessential horror comic of all time.

And no cartoonist better encapsulated the grand-guignol spirit of Tales from the Crypt than Jack Davis, who, even at the earliest stage of what would become a six-decade career, possessed a level of skill that would elude most other cartoonists during their lifetimes. His maniacs were more homicidal, his victims more terrified, his dismemberments bloodier, and his werewolves more feral than anyone else’s.

‘Tain’t the Meat… It’s the Humanity and Other Stories collects all of Davis’sTales from the Crypt classics, from EC’s wicked revenge fantasies (“The Trophy!” and “Well Cooked Hams!”) through the outright supernatural (the voodoo yarn “Drawn and Quartered!” and “Concerto for Violin and Werewolf”) to the origin of the Crypt-Keeper (“Lower Berth”) — and the legendary splatter gross-out of the title story.

This volume also includes biographical notes and essays, and an ultra-rare EC bonus: Davis’s completely redrawn 3-D version of “The Trophy!” — back in print for the first time since its original appearance 60 years ago (and for the first time in regular, easy-on-the-eyes 2-D).

“…I have a spot in my heart for Jack Davis. I mean, that guy just makes me laugh. Even when he’s drawing a gross-out, he just makes me laugh. I love his shoes, the way he draws shoes, and knuckles… there’s just something about Jack Davis’ stuff that blows me away.” – George A. Romero

jessica-barker:

For sale:
A signed first edition copy of The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling.

A regretful sale by a dedicated fan. I was recently diagnosed with Heart failure and am trying to raise £1695 to realise my dreams and have no choice but to sell my Harry Potter collection.

This book was signed at Cheltenham Literature Festival in October 2012 by JK Rowling and features a holographic sticker to prove its genuine.

£250 but open to offers.

If this doesn’t sell within a week I will regretfully place it on eBay. I just wanted the book to go to a loving, potter obsessed home, where it will be treated with the love and respect it deserves.



Thank you X

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jennionenote:

Knitting Nez hats whilst watching the Monkees and drinking way more hot cocoa than I ought to be = clearly a productive member of society

As always, if you’d like your very own Nez hat, contact me!

comicbookcovers:

thegeekpath:

Veteran artist Ernie Chan, perhaps best remembered for his work in the 1970s on Batman and Conan the Barbarian, passed away Wednesday May 16th, 2012 at age 71. Chan recently had been diagnosed with cancer. His death follows that of fellow Filipino artist Tony DeZuniga last week. He will be missed. His body of work included:

  A reader just passed this news on to me. Very sad. I’ve featured a lot of Mr Chan’s work here, and his body of work is amazing.

eatsleepdraw:

Introducing: Pencil Pod

Hand crafted in the U.S.A. with eastern white pine.

The three EatSleepDraw pencils are included with each order.

Only 50 available. Free global shipping.

Get yours here.

We also made a little video about it, click here to watch.

visualgraphic:

Kolor Branding

lightwing:

G I V E A W A Y !!! =DDDD

reblog this for a chance to win a 4x6 print! (archival, signed, in sleeve) 15 available!

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cartoonretro:

msugarkane:

Diana Dors in Tread Softly Stranger (1958)

WOW

klappersacks:

curtmerlo:

vintage beer cans