Peter David's Blog, page 135

Looking for…

A plush "Oswald the Lucky rabbit."
A few years ago, the Disney Store carried a plush version of Disney's first animated icon, "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit."  He's gray, about a foot or so tall, and his ears stick up out of the box.  They seem to have disappeared off the face of the earth; even a [...]

Friends of Ellison, Part 1

Originally published January 14, 1994, in Comics Buyer's Guide #1052
Since we have rolled into the New Year, I've made the resolution to try and do something nice with this column. After all, I wouldn't want people to come to the conclusion that But I Digress is an entity that exists only to destroy.
Unlike some entities [...]

My Schedule for NY Comic Con

As always, I know that posting my schedule is not going to stop people from saying, "Where were you?!  I never found you!"  Yet here I do it anyway.
My table at Artists Alley will be E9, next to J.K. Woodward, so if you ever wanted your "Fallen Angel" books signed, now's the time.  If I'm [...]

The Most Awards

Originally published January 7, 1994, in Comics Buyer's Guide #1051
Here we are at year's end, and it's time for the installation of a new feature in But I Digress.
In keeping with the new nostalgic feeling for the 1970s (a thoroughly vile notion if ever I heard one; I mean, it was bad enough having to [...]

Apparently We're Stray Cat Central

What is it about me?  Why do the women in my life keep taking in cats?

Years ago it was my wife and daughters bringing me a white-as-snow stray, asking if we could keep her.  I said okay.  They called her "Ghost" and she was around for a while and then passed away.
After that I was [...]

But Why Digress

Originally published December 1993, in Comics Buyer's Guide 1994 Annual
After three-and-a-half years of writing But I Digress, which is (aside from Don and Maggie's editorials and Cat Yronwode's recently discontinued paid ad on page nine) the longest-running uninterrupted opinion column in CBG, it has come to my attention that there are some folks out there [...]

This guy said it way better than I could

Robert J. Elisberg's "The Noble 'I want My Country Back'"
PAD

BID Mailbag: Political Correctness

Originally published December 31, 1993, in Comics Buyer's Guide #1050
Continuing on our sojourn through the BID mailbag, we come to a missive from Hector in New York. I've taken the liberty of editing it for length, although I emphasize that the editing does nothing to change any meanings or statements:

The main reason I'm writing this [...:]

Question for fans of "Get Fuzzy"

Were the plush toys of Satchel and Bucky ever released? I see them listed on Diamond as being out of stock and permanently unavailable, but they would have the same thing if the toys had been announced and then canceled. And there are zero listed on that catch-all of Americana, ebay.
PAD



[...:]

BID Mailbag: Marvel sales and distribution

Originally published December 24, 1993, in Comics Buyer's Guide #1049
That creaking sound you hear is the mail vault at BID being opened. Let's see what we've got.

First up is Gerard Calabrese, Marvel vice president whose coverage in Advertising Age was rife with inaccuracies that were due either to abysmal reporting or abysmal fact dissemination, or [...:]