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Michael Barrier
Topic Started: Feb 19 2007, 07:40 AM (7,732 Views)
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My thanks also, Mr. Bats.

My Mother tossed all my comix but must have thought the MAD’s looked higher-class. Little did she know.
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You are both most welcome.


Frank, how many times over the years have I heard guys start a sentence with "My mother threw out all my comics when..."

If I had a copy of Action Comics #1 for every time I hear that...

Always be yourself! Unless you can be Batman...then always be Batman!
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May 10 2010, 11:37 AM
I have that MAD collection. It’s not ideal: The pages are PDF files, the scan quality is poor enough that it's hard to make out some of the chicken fat, and a half dozen or so articles were omitted because of copyrights or something. Probably your best option, though, and the early issues are still funny as hell. (Like Chandu, I still have a lot of the originals through the early 60’s.)

The first 12 or so issues were also reprinted in the DC Comics hardcover series.

Anyone know about something similar for Walt Disney Comics and Stories (I think Rodney has an incomplete version?) or Uncle Scrooge?
I got mostly complete runs of WDCS and Uncle Scrooge (plus Little Lulu and other kids books). I don't really sell them though, but I don't mind running a set for you. Send me an e-mail.
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May 10 2010, 11:37 AM


The first 12 or so issues were also reprinted in the DC Comics hardcover series.


The two published volumes of the MAD Archives, collecting issues 1-6 and 7-12, are beautifully printed and worth seeking out. They are apparently out of print now, so I'm beginning to lose hope that there will be additional volumes.

It took me a while to get used to the vibrant color in these reprints. I didn't begin reading MAD until 1959, so I knew the early stuff only through the paperback reprints The MAD Reader, MAD Strikes Back!, Inside MAD, Utterly MAD, and the others, all of which were reproduced in black and white. The first color pages I saw were in the 1958 Crown hardcover, MAD For Keeps; they were a surprise to me, and well done, but the intensity of the color work in the Archive editions has them beat.
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Heap’s green zoot suit was especially impressive!

Rodney, just saw your message and will send a PM. Thanks.

Do I need to be concerned about the file format on comic scans? I have Adobe, of course.

But lately I’ve been confused about MP3 files offered in a DVD rather than CD format. My computer doesn’t have a DVD player, so these would be inaccessible even though I have the usual Winamp and Windows Media players? I'm getting paranoid.
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Occasional Balcony visitor (hasn't posted since early February), Thad Komorowski, is quoted over on Michael's site re Pixar, etc.
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mort bakaprevski
May 27 2010, 07:28 AM
Occasional Balcony visitor (hasn't posted since early February), Thad Komorowski, is quoted over on Michael's site re Pixar, etc.

Well, since we know how he feels about modern animation, kind of a pointless post Morty.

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Hmmmmm, do I detect the aroma of H2SO4???

Actually, Barrier just uses Thad's comments as a springboard to discuss a director who left Pixar for live-action films. Strangely, he doesn't mention Frank Tashlin at all!!
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Happy 70th to Michael:

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/happy-70th-birthday-michael-barrier.html
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Great article by Mike on John & Faith Hubley (UPA):

http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=2292
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Some interesting early acetates:

http://www.michaelbarrier.com/#carlstallingonacetate

Frankly, the home recording of Carl Stalling & his wife proves, once again, that highly talented people, when left alone, can be just as silly as the rest of us!!
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Walt Kelly doing Walt Disney?? A strange combo!!

Take a gander:

http://www.michaelbarrier.com/
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Some great stuff on Bob McKimson... including an informative interview:

http://www.michaelbarrier.com/
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Michael currently has up Roger Armstrong's reminiscences of working at the Lantz sutdios in 1944-45. Also, there's an interview with John Hubley (of UPA). Here's one line from it:

"They brought Dave Fleischer in, who was one of the world's intellectual lightweights. The only thing you could say good about him was, he was so out of it, he was so completely detached, that he was never any problem. He let you do what you wanted to do."

Defnitely fun reading!!
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Great (& long) interview with Cornelius Cole over at Mike;s site. Here's a brief sample:

"There's a lot of things that happened over the years after Warners that [gave me] reason not to like Chuck; but if you tell him what I told him at Warners, and it continues - if you're in an elevator, working on Phantom Tollbooth, and he's upstairs, and you see him on the elevator, and he says, "How's it going?" and I say, "Fine, asshole" - I didn't make myself as wonderful for him..."

http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Interviews/Cole/Cole_Interview.html
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