1980's SMHRS Relevant To Our interests: 30 YEARS OF D&D, 25 YEARS OF GARFIELD

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Here's a link to Mark Evanier's blog where he reflects on his involvement with the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon and the Garfield & Friends Cartoon which marked their 30th and 25th anniversaries yesterday. It's a quick read and pretty informative!

Mark Evanier is the guy who wrote (among other things relevant to our interests) the pilot episode, another episode and the "Series Bible" for the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon, as well as the vast majority of all the Garfield cartoons you've ever seen :)

Comments

[volare.livejournal.com]

Wow. More ways to feel like a fossil, lol...

Garfield may have become commercialized as heck over the years but circa 1983--prior, the strip itself was SO weird and SO funny. I still have all the beat-up collections that're literally falling apart... As well as the "Nine Lives" book that seriously traumatized quite a few people xD. Still can't quite believe they made an animated feature from that collection.

[deepseasiren.livejournal.com]

I admit I was a huge fan of both :)

[man-of-snows.livejournal.com]

I am ancient.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

When I was a child, I'd ride my bike to the 7-11 (which was one of the only places where you could play video games unless you were rich enough to own an Atari or Colecovision) and pay 60-cents for a comic book, then spend a quarter at the corner phone booth to call home and see if my Mom needed me to pick up a newspaper for her on my way home, then I'd flip over the tape in my walkman and start riding home listening to the same 12 songs in the exact same order as I had listened to it every previous time.

NOTHING about that sentence is relevant any more. All of it is ancient jargon to be deciphered by the archaeologists some day...

[man-of-snows.livejournal.com]

Bikes and 7-11 are!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Neon-Pink-N-Blue BMX Bike, and a 7-11 that closed at 11pm (should have been more specific)...

I still remember the day our 7-11 changed over to a 24/7 establishment...

[man-of-snows.livejournal.com]

They just opened a new 7-11 here in the WORST part of town. I'd hate to work there.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I worked the graveyard shift at a 7-11 that was directly across the street from the local police station - never felt so safe :)