Today in Comics History, February 12, 1924: The United Airlines PR director breathes a sigh of relief

from "Scoops...Pictures to Remember" in Real Fact Comics #1 (DC March 1946), pencils and inks by George Russos
Here's "Bullhattan," my little Ken Burnsesque mini-movie featuring me running around New York City to the tune of Gershwin's great gelody, YouTube took it down, but it still survives. Bite me, YouTube!

And for you purists (and anti-bull, I'd imagine), here's that original version of Paul Whiteman and His Non-Bull Orchestra performing "Rhapsody in Blue."

Calling All She-Hulks

Hollywood casting directors take note! Here's two actual and unrelated photos from the two major New York City weekly magazines:

From Time Out New York #614 (July 6-11, 2007), their "Green" (environmental) theme issue gives them a chance to have a supposedly clever visual pun by featuring a green woman in their "Public Eye" New Yorker on the street feature: Lisa Brescia, actress who plays Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, in Broadway's Wicked:


...and from New York (July 16, 2007), a (color-tinted) photo of the ex-Mrs. Salman Rushdie, Padma Lakshmi, Photoshopped viridian to accompany a short "Intelligencer" gossip article about her environmentally-responsible (i.e., green) luxury penthouse duplex:


I didn't pick up The New Yorker this week, but if it didn't look like this, I don't wanna know about it:

Breakfast at Forbidden Planet

See the original here. Visit Forbidden Planet here.

Adventures in Bullhattan: Waitin' on the 6

(Astor Place Station)

Adventures in Bullhattan: Gnome jail

(13th Street between University and Fifth)

Levels of gnome crime in New York City have risen to such a huge level that gnomes are being jailed left and right. Here, this unfortunate soul plots his escape.

Or, maybe he's the warden at the jail: gnomes make good prison guards. Because as we all know, there's no police like gnomes.

Adventures in Bullhattan: This means you, Perry White

(12th Street and Broadway)

(I feel I should also point out I do not support reporting illegal immigrants. Except for this guy.)

Adventures in Bullhattan: Comic Book Store Windows Oughta Be Fun

Golly! Was Mister Gary Groth here personally decorating the window of one of my favorite comic book stores, Forbidden Planet? (12th Street and Broadway)

(Edit: Dagnabbit it! The Fantastic Fantagraphics Folk already know about this. There goes my scoop!)

Adventures in Bullhattan: Little Subway People

Everybody in New York City is in a big rush: people rushing from here to there, hopping on the subways and zooming off to work or home or the theater or shopping or the Hamptons or someplace else, whew! I feel sorry for these people because they're so busy rushin' from place to place they don't see some of the weird and wonderful and pretty and fun things along the way on their journeys. Since I'm a little stuffed bull who likes to stop and smell the roses (or the popcorn, if that's what's along the way), let me be your pers'nal guide to some things you might have passed by every day and never realized was even there!

I bet you all know that there are millions of people who use the subway every day, right? Well, I bet you don't know that little people use the subway too! Don't believe me? Well, you're wrong! All you have to do to see otherwise is to head down to the 14th Street subway station on the    line and look carefully...


Do y'see 'em? Little Subway People! They're everywhere! They re just about as big as I am and they're bronze-colored and they have big round heads. And if you look carefully in the 14th Street station, you'll see them on the floor, on benches, near posts, on the ceilings—just about any place you look there's a little subway person hangin' out!


This one is collecting money. Do you think he makes big money?


Oh wow! That is big money!!!!!!


Whatcha readin', little miss subway person? Is it Harry Potter?


Golly! This is a good book. It's all about little gilded people in New York City!

Do you want to read, hear or see more about the little subway people, from people who also noticed them? Sure you do! So until next time, fellow Bullhattanites...enjoy the city!