Day: April 24, 2012
As a John Carter Fan — new Farmers’ Insurance – Marvel Avengers commercial makes me want to cry (or go on a rampage)
TweetSo…John Carter? Remember that? Flop of the century? Now, how much creative marketing did you see for John Carter? How many co-branding efforts? Um … well, I would say, […]
Planet Wonder: What happened to the wonderful story of John Carter of Mars?
TweetFrom PlanetWonder.org: Well, to start, Disney messed with the title. The recent movie, Disney’s John Carter was a failure, or at least that’s what the pundits would have you believe. […]
Variety: The Iger Sanction: Iger has basic distrust of movies and that’s part of the problem
TweetFrom Variety via Chicago Tribute A producer was explaining to me the other day what it feels like to make a movie atDisney. “I feel like an alien,” he said. […]
Pulp Convention Celebrates Edgar Rice Burroughs
TweetFrom Chicago Sun Times. 1912 was a very good year for fledgling pulp novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs, who saw his first two creations, “Tarzan of the Apes” and “John Carter […]
Roy Krenkel’s Evocative Cover Art for Edgar Rice Burroughs
TweetA disciple of J.Allen St. John, Franklin Booth, William Walcot and Norman Lindsay, Roy Krenkel was responsible for vividly evocative cover art for the ACE 1960’s Edgar Rice Burroughs paperbacks. […]