The best songs of 1935, according to the Academy (Year of the Month)
Greetings fellow Soluters and music lovers! I once again ran out of time to do…
POPEYE, Part Two: A Study in Segar-ian Storytelling
Popeye begins 1935 in Black Valley, investigating a gang of claimjumpers fed on tainted cactus…
POPEYE, Part One: A Study in Segar-ian Style
90-odd years after he first tromped onto the stage of Thimble Theatre, Popeye’s in a…
Year of the Month: FLASH GORDON
Nowadays, newspaper comics are the lowest form of life — page after page of crotchety…
Year of the Month: MAD LOVE
Mad Love opens in the Theatre de Horrors, a Grand Guignol knockoff packed full of…
Year of the Month: Krazy Kat in THE HOT CHA MELODY
You probably know George Herriman’s Krazy Kat: the newspaper comic strip that forward-thinking critic Gilbert…
Year of the Month: Persia on CAPTAIN BLOOD
It almost sounds like a “walk into a bar” joke: three actors — a swashbuckler,…
Year of the Month: Wykstrad on THE 39 STEPS
“I know what it is to feel lonely and helpless and to have the whole…
Disney Byways: “Mickey’s Kangaroo”
The difference, traditionally, between sentient and not-fully-sentient in cartoons has been whether or not they…
