NOVARO: THE MEXICAN COLOSSUS (2017)

                                  Available for a limited time through Amazon's Prime Video:

"Novaro - The Mexican Colossus traces the unknown story behind one of the biggest comic companies in Latin America, Editorial Novaro, its place in the Mexican comic industry, its relation with its consumers and its role in shaping the Mexican middle class".

 I was one of several people interviewed in connection to the NOVARO Publishing Company, trying to explain the reasons behind its sudden bankruptcy and eventual disappearance.

I spent about 13 years of my adult life writing and drawing the PINK PANTHER & BEEP BEEP, THE ROAD RUNNER comics as well as a short lived comic of my own creation called EL MAFIOSO NICK.

The 2017 documentary, actually filmed in 2013, examines the influence NOVARO had on several generations of readers from Mexico down to Uruguay, Peru and the rest of  Latin America during the nearly four decades it dominated the comic book market, printing mostly material from the U.S. but also generating a few locally produced titles. The documentary offers some theories about NOVARO's sudden demise and explores the collectibles phenomenon it triggered during its peak years.

This is the link to PRIME VIDEO which will be active for a limited time:

https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0GUT26IG56MHV26JAE6UCWRSWM/ref=atv_wl_hom_c_unkc_1_1

FIGHTING THE WORLD!

As one gets older, the entire world seems to be heading into a different direction than you. Why is that?

MY WORST TRIP EVER! - (Revisiting an old Nightmare)

I have many wonderful and unforgettable memories from great trips I've made during my lifetime but, unfortunately, I cannot shake from my memory the very worst trip I ever took which happened exactly six years ago, back in November of 2016.

SERENITY NOW!

Seven horrible days in Los Angeles and San Diego with my father. 

The old man hogged the driving wheel during the entire trip even though he could barely drive because of his old age and he flatly refused to go anywhere else but the cheapie 99 cent stores where he would stay hours and hours, going slowly aisle by aisle while I just stood there, like a wax figure, motionless and unable to do anything.

The happiest moment came when I realized the end of the torture was coming near!

I never took a trip with him ever again. Mercifully, he died in 2018.

IN MEMORIAM : My Friend Marshall.

 Very sad to hear the news about Marshall Korby, former Grand Sheik of the Detroit Dancing Cuckoos Tent of the Laurel & Hardy International Organization, The Sons of the Desert; who passed away at 79 on November 1st.

                 

                   I subscribed to his Laurel & Hardy Catalogue and bought many items from him.

 

We met at the Sons of the Desert 1978 Convention in Chicago and became good friends. We kept in touch for many years after that and I last saw him in Florida where we had dinner and exchanged our life stories up to that point. He presented me with a booklet he compiled himself of all my Laurel & Hardy artwork as a gift.

 

Here are some of the vignettes featured in the booklet:

Rest in Peace, my Friend!

The Witch Doctor.

I have never been to a psychiatrist or a psychologist and have never attended any kind of therapy or counseling but consulting a Witch Doctor has always intrigued me.