EUReKA

"The Comic Book?"

Eureka,
I've Found It...

A EUReKA Comic Book!

BOOM! Studios, named by Wizard Magazine as Best New Publisher in its' inaugural year, has announced it will publish a EUReKA comic book based on the popular Sci-FI channel series.

EUReKA creator Andrew Crosby is a founding partner in BOOM! Studios, so expect the comic to reflect the fun and zany flavor of the tv series.

Andrew has already mentioned that this comic book would give him a chance to make episodes without the constraint of a budget!

EUReKA is one of our most favorite shows so we're looking forward to enjoying the comic book.  We hope to bring you copies once it's available.

Last night we took a break from convention coverage to part of the mini-marathon of our current favorite show - EUReKA.

-- Tina

BTW, we don't have a Studio here, but we do have an ongoing Comic Con  and Pop Culture convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale!

Thanks for reading this post today and please join us again!

Michael

Ducks, Ducks, And More Ducks....

Carl Barks 

"The Duck Man"!

Carl Barks (1901 - 2000), is widely respected as 'The Duck Man'!

Why? It was he that invented Duckburg, with Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), The Beagle Boys (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952), Flintheart Glomgold (1956) and several more!

Carl first went to work for Walt Disney Studios as an 'inbetweener' in 1935.

(Donald Duck started in 1934.)

Carl quit in 1942, but contributed half the artwork to a oneshot Donald Duck comic book printed by Western Publishing that owned Dell Comics.

Shortly after that Carl started submitting both art and scripts to Dell and worked on the Duck Family for the next three decades!

Today, those Carl Barks issues are highly prized for collectibility, and the later issues that reprinted those issue are also valued for their great reading value.

Currently we have several of Carl Barks issues in stock as well as other Disney, Gladstone, Gold Key and Dell Comics with several 'watchers' on each listing.

So I am blogging this topic to bring more attention to those Bark issues before they are gone!

BTW, we have an ongoing Comic Con  and Pop Culture convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale!

Thanks for reading this post today and please join us again!

Michael

H.E.R.B.I.E.

the Robot.... What Was He Doing In The Fantastic Four Comic Books?

Over 500 TV Show Episodes To Her Credit!

Barbara Luna!

The Leo Carrillo Ranch

Part 4

The  2008 Friday Night Film Festival Continued!

Last night Tina and I once again went to the Leo Carrillo Ranch in Carlsbad, California to take in one of the special Friday Night Film Festival shows starring Leo Carrillo! The Film Festival ends September 12th, 2008.

Last night's festivities started with wine and a picnic dinner, (bring your own or buy a Carrillo Combo consisting of hot dog, chips and soda), then a showing of a Cisco Kid TV Show episode from the early 1950's, and then the Main Feature!

The Cicso Kid episode last night was a more serious one, with two female ranchers who also had a lunch room in town. A couple of 'con men' rode into town, and came up with the idea of a staging a rodeo and making off with the prize money. Well, the Cisco Kid had other ideas on how to distribute the prize money! It was a pretty good episode and of course shown in color as all of the Cisco Kid TV Shows were filmed in during the b&w days of early TV!

The 'Main Feature' for this Friday Night  was the 1941 Film 'HoRRoR Island' where Leo was acting with Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, and Fuzzy Knight. 

Others in the cast were: Foy Van Dolsen, Iris Adrian, Emmett Vogan, John Eldredge and Hobart Cavanaugh.

The title of the film was a misnomer, as it wasn't a 'HoRRoR Film', but instead a play on the 'Ten Little Indians' where one after another the adventurers to the island were bumped off!

This was another short 'B' film, (60 minutes long), and this time Leo played a one-legged sailor with a treasure map to Morgan the Pirate's buried treasure...

Or at least half of the map, as 'The Phantom' took the other half of the map early in the movie and thus it was more of a semi-thriller with comedic scenes instead of a 'HoRRoR' film!

Dick Foran, the lead actor, was a good 'B' Film actor who also was in several TV Shows later including Laramie, Bonanza, Rawhide, Death Valley Days, and more.

Tina thought it was a good play on 'The Ten Little Indians' angle, and the film reminded her of her Aunt Anne's talking about going to see 'B' Films during the time period of this film with her Aunt.

I enjoyed seeing the film, with Leo playing a comedic swashbuckler. The outdoor showing was more heavily attended last night, with approximately half of the audience being 'newbies' to the Film Festival.

There are only two films left for the 2008 Summer Friday Night Film Festival.  I am looking forward to the 'A' Film running 127 minutes, The 'Lillian Russell' film from 1940, where Leo Carrillo also had a big role in it!

BTW, We don't show films here, although we do have an occasional DVD for sale here, but we do have an ongoing Comic Con  and Pop Culture convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale!

Michael