Jack Davis, Cartoonist Who Helped Found 'Mad' Magazine, Dies At 91
Money from a job illustrating a Coca-Cola training manual became a springboard for him to move from Georgia to New York.
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'It's Not My Story': Baz Luhrmann On Collaborating To Make 'The Get Down'
Linda Holmes offers another update from the Television Critics Association meeting, this time on Luhrmann's hip-hop Netflix series The Get Down.
Stars Hollow Intel: A Few New Beans Are Spilled On The 'Gilmore Girls' Return
From the Television Critics Association meeting in Los Angeles, Linda Holmes reports on Netflix's upcoming Gilmore Girls reunion.
Episode 714: Can a Game Show Lose?
Crafting a TV game show is a balancing act. Producers have to carefully calibrate the rules, the drama and the prizes just right. Sometimes they get it way wrong.
Kids On Bikes: The Sci-Fi Nostalgia Of 'Stranger Things', 'Paper Girls' & 'Super 8'
Three recent properties - a Netflix series, a comic book and a 2011 Hollywood film - borrow key elements from Steven Spielberg and Stephen King to comment on adolescence in very different ways.
Minicomics May Be Small, But They Pack Big Thrills
Minicomics are kind of a relic — few artists now want to go to the trouble of printing and distributing paper comics. But there are still a few out there that are worth the trouble of hunting down.
Netflix, HBO, PBS And More Bring Their Upcoming Shows To Critics
It's about time again for the Television Critics Association to meet in California, and we have a preview of the week to come.
No Longer Omar: Actor Michael K. Williams On Lucky Breaks And Letting Go
Over the course of his career, Williams says he's learned to separate himself from his characters (like The Wire's Omar). In HBO's The Night Of, he plays a powerful prison inmate named Freddy.
The Case Against The Shirley Temple (The Drink)
Author and cocktail enthusiast Wayne Curtis wrote an article called "Shirley Temples Are Destroying America's Youth." He talks about why he hates Shirley Temples — the drink, not the person.
At 75, Wonder Woman Lassos In A New Generation With An Ageless Fight
As the launch of the upcoming film coincides with the heroine's Comic-Con fandom, Wonder Woman appears to be hooking new fans for the same reasons she was birthed in 1941: justice, peace and feminism.