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Tom Riggin
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Animator, Director & Storyboard Artist, now retired.
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Darkseid and Vermin Vundabar are most pleased!
The final panel of the comic book series “Mister Miracle” by Jack Kirby shows Darkseid, the dictator of the planet Apokolips, enjoying an uncharacteristic fit of laughter. The comic was one of the titles in Kirby’s “Fourth World” story cycle. A comic panel from Jack Kirby’s “Fourth World” story cycle depicting Vermin Vundabar engaged in one of his favorite activities. Vundabar, a native of the planet Apokolips, affects the look of a Prussian officer as he serves as an elite agent of the galactic dictator Darkseid.
December 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Not a turkey in the bunch. “Addams Family Values” has become a Thanksgiving tradition in our house.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Art cards for “Addams Family Values” (1993), “John Candy: I Like Me” (2025), “Devil in a Blue Dress” (1995) and “A Mighty Wind” (2003).
November 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I had to set the Waybac machine a couple of years earlier for this one.
Frame grab from the title sequence of the short-lived 1982 sitcom One of the Boys in which Nathan Lane costarred with Mickey Rooney, Dana Carvey and Scatman Crothers.
November 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Not a full turnover from the last post, what with the time spent watching the playoffs & the World Series.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Art cards for “My Little Chickadee” (1940), “The Phantom of the Opera” (1925-29) “The Adventures of Ichabod and Mister Toad” (1949) and “Ed Wood” (1994).
November 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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To whom it may concern: In the story of Robin Hood, Prince John is NOT A ROLE MODEL! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Claude Rains as the villainous Prince John in “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (1938). Seated to his right is Basil Rathbone as the nearly as villainous Sir Guy of Gisbourne. In a still from the 1973 Disney animated feature “Robin Hood”, the infantile despot Prince John runs his fingers through a sack of Ill-gotten gold while his lackey Sir Hiss looks on. Richard Lewis as Prince John in Mel Brooks’ 1993 comedy “Robin Hood: Men in Tights”.
October 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Dinny has the right idea. #dinnythedinosaur #cabazondinosaurs #cabazoncalifornia #roadsideattractions
Photo of “Dinny” at the Cabazon Dinosaurs, a classic Southern California roadside attraction. Dinny is currently painted bright red with a white heart shape is on his side containing the slogan “Choose Love.”
October 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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#LetterboxedFriday, #LastFourWatched
Cover art for the films “Ed Wood” (1994), “Another Thin Man” (1939), “Wayne’s World (1992) and “Real Life” (1979).
October 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Some days there’s no better mood adjuster than watching Bugs Bunny run roughshod over Yosemite Sam.
Vintage movie theater lobby card for “Hare Trigger”, a 1945 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by the great Friz Freling. The illustration shows Yosemite Sam as a train robber trying to intimidate Bugs Bunny, who is costumed as a Western movie hero.
September 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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My current shopping bag of choice:
Photo of a reusable shopping bag given out at the 2017 Emmy “For Your Consideration” event for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. It reads: “Comedy with a BIG SACK”.
September 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Current read. We were fortunate enough to see “Spamalot” 3 weeks after its Broadway opening in (Can it be possible?) 2005. This delightfully chronicles the journey @ericidle.bsky.social and his collaborators took to get there.
Book cover of “The Spamalot Diaries” by Eric Idle. The covert depicts King Arthur, The Lady of the Lake, assorted Knights, a castle and banners riding in a floating Holy Grail in the style of Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam. A catapulted cow is flying toward them.
August 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Spotted yesterday on the northbound 101:
Protesters on an overpass of the northbound 101 freeway near Los Angeles, CA. Their banners read: “THE FILES MUST BE DAMNING!”
August 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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From the new Kramden Collection at Bath & Body Works:
A display of men’s hygiene products at Bath & Body Works featuring a fragrance called “To The Moon”. Maybe (probably not) in reference to Jackie Gleason’s character Ralph Kramden.
July 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Current read/used bookstore find. Contains both the original screenplay by Robert Priosh, George Seaton and George Oppenheimer and a version transcribed from the film as released after the Marx Bros had their way with it.
Paperback screenplay book for “A Day at the Races” published by The Viking Press in 1973. The cover features a publicity still of Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx laying on a bed of straw.
June 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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A Sunday Soother from San Luis Obispo, CA. Unmute the audio for best results.
May 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Oh, Fortune Cookie, how very many ways there are I could prove you wrong.
Photo of a fortune cookie fortune reading “You are always welcome in any gathering.”
May 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Snapped on a recent visit to Hollywood Forever Cemetery: The bronze plaque marking Don Adams’ grave appears to be waiting for a new headstone. A fan has taped a small Inspector Gadget toy to the support bar.
The gravesite of actor Don Adams at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The bronze plaque appears to be waiting a new headstone. A fan has taped a small Inspector Gadget toy to its support bar. Adams was the original voice of the character.
May 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Current read/used bookstore find. Contains issues 5 - 8 from 1940. Superman in his formative days when he mainly battled gangsters, racketeers and corrupt politicians. Luthor and some thinly veiled Nazis show up to take their lumps too. #Superman #goldenagecomics
April 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Current read: the 2nd volume (of 7!) of British comedian Spike Milligan’s memoirs of his military service in WW2.
The cover of the book “‘Rommel?’ ‘Gunner Who?’ A Confrontation in the Desert” by Spike Milligan.
April 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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The Hilbert Museum at Chapman University has two backgrounds from one of these cartoons, “By Word of Mouse”, painted by Irv Wyner from Hawley Pratt’s layouts. Charming “cartoon modern” from 1954.
Background painting by Irv Wyner from the Warner Bros. cartoon “By Word of Mouse” (1954) depicting a highly stylized office desk. Wyner employed a limited color palate to emphasize the graphic styling of Hawley Pratt’s scene layout. Background painting by Irv Wyner from the Warner Bros. cartoon “By Word of Mouse” (1954) depicting a highly stylized cityscape viewed through a skyscraper window. Wyner employed a limited color palate to emphasize the graphic styling of Hawley Pratt’s scene layout.
April 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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The Harley Quinn Season 5 finale (Ep. 10 - “The Mess Is the Point”) is now streaming on Max. It’s my final pre-retirement* screen credit, the last episode of animated television I worked on. I hope you’ll watch & enjoy! Asterisk explained in the comments.
Harley looks ready to take on the world in a still from the Season 5 finale of Harley Quinn. Lena and Lex Luthor loom over the shrunken and bottled Ivy, Harley, Sharon and Brainiac in a still from the Season 5 finale of Harley Quinn.
March 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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You might enjoy this: “Mary by the Sea” a 1934 painting of Mary Blair by her husband Lee. It’s part of the collection at the Hilbert Museum at Chapman University, Orange, CA.
“Mary by the Sea”, a 1934 painting of Mary Blair by her husband, Lee Blair. She is depicted with her canvas and painting supplies on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
March 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Saw “The Day the Earth Blew Up” last night. Easy in this day and age to forget the delight of seeing hand-drawn animation on the big screen. This brings it back. Thumbs up!
Daffy Duck and Porky Pig are trapped in a gum-bubble being blown by a sinister looking alien in a publicity image from the feature film “The Day the Earth Blew Up”
March 17, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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I wonder if she still has her grandfather’s Buckeye Newshawk Award?

From the first panel of today’s “Dick Tracy.”

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In the first panel of today’s “Dick Tracy” comic strip a female TV news reporter is identified as Tess Nessman, a reference to the character Les Nessman played by Richard Sanders on the sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati.”
March 13, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Ladies and gentlemen, Bing Conan!
As Chester panics in the gorilla’s cage, Bing Conan makes time with Dorothy Lamour. Comic panel by Eliot Brown & Joe Sinnott from Marvel’s “What If?” #34, 1982
March 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Last night’s Comfort Food Cinema: W. S. Van Dyke’s “After the Thin Man” (1936). The first of 5 high-quality sequels featuring the flawless chemistry of William Powell & Myrna Loy as Nick & Nora Charles.
Promotional still from “After the Thin Man” (1936) featuring Myrna Loy as Nora, William Powell as Nick and their terrier Asta.
March 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM