From the years 1978 to 1992 here in Los Angeles, an actor named Tom Hatten was often my weekend friend.  On Sunday morning's he would bring us Popeye cartoons and take "squiggle's" that we sent into the show and turn them into simple (yet to a 7 year old amazing) drawings and in the afternoons [...]

If you were a viewer of Saturday Morning Cartoons in the 70's or even most Morning Cartoon blocks on your local television channels, you had to be aware of one of the greatest monster battles in the history of monster battles:  Franken Berry vs. Count Chocula. The stakes were great as these two terrifying General [...]

Before I begin in on one of my favorite after school TV shows, I want to point out there are so many worlds of psychedelic weirdness in the shows of Sid and Marty Krofft, that one article simply will never be enough. Instead I am starting with the programs I remember being the most wondrous [...]

I don’t know if we can ever be totally certain how we become haunt and horror fans. I know I always liked monsters and fantasy and things that were a little off center when I was growing up, and I have decided to explore some of those things in a series of articles. If you [...]

I don’t know if we can ever be totally certain how we become haunt and horror fans. I know I always liked monsters and fantasy and things that were a little off center when I was growing up, and I have decided to explore some of those things in a series of articles. If you [...]