LB’S NOTE: One of our fave TV writers-illustrators-screenwriters-vloggers, Stephanie Bourbon, talks about her “favorite show, ever” and why it still works so well.

by Stephanie Bourbon
Today I’m talking about my favorite show, ever, in the history of shows, and there are a lot of great TV shows out there but this one is special, to me, and about a billion others.
Yes, I’m talking about FRIENDS
So You Want to be a ‘New Yorker’ Cartoonist
Over the years, we at TVWriter™ have known many men and women who aspired to become cartoonists for New Yorker Magazine. A couple of them have been winners of the mag’s weekly caption contest, but not a one has sold an actual original cartoon there.
Maybe this will help them – and those of you we don’t know personally. This TVWriter™ minion certainly hopes so.

Stacey Jones: NOTHING BUT SPOILERS (Because That’s How You Learn) #8 LOKI

LOKI
S1:02 – THE VARIANT
Review by Stacey Jones
EDITOR’S ALERT: This is the first part of Stacey Jones’ discussion of Loki and its place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Or is it the Marvel Televerse? The real universe, maybe? My mind, it be a’wondering.
Anyway, like it says in the title of this post, a world of SPOILERS awaits below the thin red line. Oh, and also an assumption that you’re familiar with the MCU!
Cartoon: ‘The Inner Critic’
Grant Snider lets us know exactly where he stands on a subject – emotion? state of being? – called fulfillment.

First published in the NY Times Book Review.
Herbie J Pilato Remembers ‘The New Dick Van Dyke Show’
Herbie J Pilato and the Celebrating Act2 YouTube channel take us down memory lane in a discussion of a Dick Van Dyke sitcom that wasn’t a hit. Lightning doesn’t just strike. We – the storm star chasers – have to give it a boost.
