Today we have George Herriman biographer Michael Tisserand with an exclusive image feature about Herriman and Hal Roach. Here's a bit:
The party began on Thursday evening, December 7, 1933, and lasted until the next morning. Five hundred invited guests joined Roach at his studio in Culver City to celebrate his twentieth year as a studio head, with thousands more listening to an NBC radio broadcast of the proceedings. “Memory Lane was all lighted up with electrics,” reported Grace Kingsley for the Los Angeles Times. “The place had been fitted up like a palace.”
It’s likely, but not certain, that George Herriman was among those in attendance.
Elsewhere:
A short interview with Zunar in the NY Times.
Sammy Harkham has made an enormous print of one of Chester Brown's finest sequences.
