DECOUPAGE!: L.A. POST-PUNKS ON TV! SEALED WITH A KITSCH!
In the late ’80s, L.A. performance artist and musician Craig Roose took his breezy, ‘60s-obsessed “drag” character “Miss Summer...
Comedy
ALLAN SHERMAN: WEIRD AL’S FOUNDING ‘FADDAH’
Allan Sherman, a pudgy TV game show producer, dominated the pre-Beatles record charts with a string of hit...
HARVEY KURTZMAN AND HIS CRY FOR HELP!
The Mad genius (in more ways than one!) kept going after parting company with William Gaines, creating other...
‘ZEN BASTARD’ PAUL KRASSNER HAS THE LAST LAUGH AND THE LAST WORD
Publisher/editor of The Realist, satirist, comedian, Merry Prankster, Yippie co-founder, and compatriot of a who’s who of the...
BILL GRIFFITH: THE VIEW FROM HIS COMIX OBSERVATORY
The brilliant cartoonist, comic strip artist, creator of Zippy the Pinhead, inspirer of Belushi/Ackroyd and keeper of the...
WHEN SCTV RULED THE WORLD
SNL got all the ink but SCTV was the place for serious comedy in the 1970s. PKM revisits...
RETRO ICON RUSTY WARREN – THE ‘KNOCKERS UP’ GAL!
Longtime singer, bawdy comedian, and retro icon Rusty Warren talks about her career, the Pomp Room in Phoenix,...