Month: November 2015
Shelf Life: Happy to Be Feeling Like a Dum Dum by Ron Marz
TweetRon Marz, writing in Comic Book Resources, about the just completed Dum Dum: The town of Clinton, Connecticut, is like any number of small New England villages. Perched on the […]
Saturday Evening Post Says Tarzan is the First Superhero — and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Creation of Him Marked a “Major Turning Point”
TweetA Saturday Evening Post article by Jeff Nilsson under the title How Tarzan’s Author Did it All Wrong and Got it All Right makes a major good point and one […]
2015 Dum Dum Memories Courtesy of the Burroughs Family
TweetIt all began in 1962 when the Burroughs Bibliophiles were formed as an adjunct to the science fiction Worldcon. This was during the first wave of the great 1960s Edgar […]
Now THERE is some Rocket Science; Watch it Land
TweetJeff Bezos’s Blue Origin’s rocket has done something we’ve only seen in sci-fi — land. One of the most exciting things in space travel seen in a long time. […]
Looks like “Legend of Tarzan” is the Title of WB’s Pic
TweetTwo Warner Brothers Executives, Alexandra Lewis and Neil Marshall, presented WB’s 2016 slate to DCM (Digital Cinema Media) and, at least according to Digital Cinema Media, the title under which […]
“Africa of the Mind” in 1912: The Books That Helped Edgar Rice Burroughs write Tarzan of the Apes
TweetI’ve been a little quiet lately, in part because I’ve been doing some research on the “Africa of the mind” that Edgar Rice Burroughs had access to as he was […]
Would Edgar Rice Burroughs Have Approved of Alexander Skarsgard as Tarzan?
TweetNo one has a better idea of what Tarzan should look like, what his demeanor should be, how he should carry himself — than Tarzan’s creator Edgar Rice Burroughs. Burroughs […]
Pan is as big a disaster for WB as John Carter was for Disney; $150M film brings in $15M Opening Weekend
TweetOne would think that no marketing campaign could be as clumsy and tone deaf as Disney’s John Carter campaign, but then along comes AJoe Wright’s Pan, distributed by Warner Brothers […]
Seeing the Martian in Theaters Is Like Flying in a One-Man Flier Over the Dead Sea Bottoms of Barsoom
TweetI was expecting The Martian to be a visual treat, but what I hadn’t anticipated was the technique that Ridley Scott used on almost all of the scenes on exterior […]
Jane Goodall Sees Tarzan as a potential global voice for the environment, talks of her childhood crush on the Edgar Rice Burroughs character
TweetSpeaking at the Centennial Celebration of the creation of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs on August 18, primatologist and global icon Jane Goodall recalled how […]
Q and A With Artist Gregory Manchess
TweetOne of my favorite pieces of Barsoom art that wasn’t done by St. John, Krenkel, Frazetta, or any of the “usual suspects” of Barsoomian artists is by Gregory Manchess, and […]
The Elusive, Impulsive Magic of Edgar Rice Burroughs
TweetI have been lately re-reading Irwin Porges massive biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs, one of the pleasures of which is the passionate introduction, written in 1975, by Ray Bradbury. In […]
A Split Screen Comparison of The Mars of Andrew Stanton in John Carter vs The Mars of Ridley Scott’s the Martian
TweetSo how do the last two movies about mars look side by side in terms of Mars is presented? Here’s what we did. First, I tried to get the images […]
Who or What IS John Carter of Virginia by Jerry Alan Kimbro
TweetA guest post by Jerry Alan Kimbro I am currently re-reading Edgar Rice Burroughs’ original Mars Trilogy (Published in three volumes: A Princess of Mars, Gods of Mars, and Warlord […]