Jimi Hendrix Experience Mitch Mitchell died yesterday. He was the last living member of the famed trio and a great jazz-influenced drummer. A lot of the intensity to Jimi's best music owes a lot to his fiery, Elvin Jones-like support.
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Found this great link yesterday via BoingBoing: A listing of great recordings on the Disneyland label now available via iTunes.
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Looks like that rumored Faces reunion is actually in the works.
...original members Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones, along with Stewart touring bassist replacing the late Ronnie Laine, will have a rehearsal next Monday (Nov. 17) "just to check if they can remember the songs."
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Legendary comics scribe Stan Lee is producing a new series on Showtime.
"Hero" focuses on a gay superhero who struggles to hide both that secret and his secret identity. It's based on a novel of the same name by Perry Moore.
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Here's a nice study of Batman logos through the years. I did my own survey of Batman cover logos a few years back.
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See a great Steve Ditko Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves story from 1969.
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Also up at Fortress of Fortitude, a Basil Wolverton sci fi tale.
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Monty Python's Dead Parrot Sketch has its roots in 4th century humor, the BBC reports.
Philogelos: The Laugh Addict, which has been translated from Greek manuscripts, contains a joke where a man complains that a slave he was sold had died.
"When he was with me, he never did any such thing!" is the reply.
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Golden Age Comic Book Stories features artwork from Jim Steranko's 1971 comic art calendar, featuring work by Jack Kirby, Joe Kubert, Alex Toth and Steranko himself. Nice stuff.
Check out other recent entries there, too, for stories illustrated by Archie Goodwin and Alex Toth.
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Comic Book Resources catches up with the great comic book artist P. Craig Russell and provides a peek at his latest work, an adaptation of Neil Gaimin's "The Dream Hunters."
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