Category: Cartoons

Books, Cartoons, Christmas, Jim MacQuarrie

My Favorite Christmas Story: ‘Red Ranger Came Calling’

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We have a few Christmas traditions here at Casa MacQ; one of them is the annual reading of Berke Breathed’s ‘Red Ranger Came Calling,’ a simply marvelous holiday story that I stumbled upon in a Target store about ten years ago. The cover caught my interest, partly because it’s Berke Breathed, and partly because of the vintage toys all scattered around, so, while waiting for family to find whatever they were looking for, I picked it up and started skimming it.

Books, Cartoons, Comics, History, Jim MacQuarrie, Rummaging & Ruminating, TV

The Tick and His Wacky Peers

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The Tick, a reboot of the live-action TV series that was a reboot of the animated series that was adapted from the comic book that started out as a comic store mascot, has finally arrived on Amazon’s original programming channel, so I thought I’d take a moment to look at some of the other superhero comedy-parody-satire offerings that may have influenced, or been influenced by, what is obviously the most successful entry into the genre.

Animation, Books, Cartoons, Comics, Comics Culture, Crisis on Earth-T, Interviews, John Trumbull, Superheroes, Toys, TV

Inside HERO-A-GO-GO with Michael Eury!

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Michael Eury’s new book is HERO-A-GO-GO: CAMPY COMIC BOOKS, CRIMEFIGHTERS & CULTURE OF THE SWINGING SIXTIES, and it’s all about the Camp Craze of the 1960s, when EVERYONE, thanks to Batman and James Bond, was a superhero, a swinging secret agent, or BOTH. Here’s what Michael had to say about the project…

Cartoons, Jim MacQuarrie, Rummaging & Ruminating, Superheroes, TV

The Super Seventies (and Beyond)

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We talked about the history of superheroes on TV a couple of weeks ago, and got through the 1960s. Naturally we can’t leave off there, so here’s part 2, covering the ’70s and ’80s. After Batman ended, the networks moved on to other genres. There were a lot of westerns, WWII shows, sitcoms, cop shows, doctor shows, detective shows, and a handful of sci-fi shows, some of which were close enough to superheroes for me.