Back here I brought you news about a Dan DeCarlo tribute being prepared for the Josie and the Pussycats DVD. Now, here is some more exciting news from reader Chris Ferguson:

This weekend, I was witness to part of the making of the Alex Toth documentary to go on the Space Ghost DVD. John Hitchcock, the owner of the comic store at which I work (Parts Unknown: The Comic Book Store), was interviewed for the doc. John just released last year “Dear John: The Alex Toth Doodle Book” which is a chronicling of their 25-year correspondence through postcards, sketches, etc. The Toth family, as well as documentary director Jon Mefford, asked John to be a part of the doc. It was fun seeing the filming of the piece, in which John was asked about 30 or so questions about Toth’s life and work, although I don’t know how much of this will be included. Anyway, it should be a great documentary, as not much has been done on this great artist.

I agree. It’s just too bad they didn’t think to do this a year ago before he passed away. Here is an excerpt from a recent post from my pal, Mark Evanier on that subject:

I pointed out to the folks who’d made this decision (not to include certain extras) that they might consider that several people they might want to interview for the DVD were over eighty years of age. These people might not be available (or as lucid) if interviews are to be conducted a few years down the pike. But we’re not going to interview them for the current release because someone thinks the DVD can sell enough without it and wants to save something for another release several years from now. And we’re not going to interview them now and bank the material because the cost of that can’t be charged to some current budget. So it isn’t done…and four years from now, someone at the same home video company is going to call me and ask me a question that starts with the phrase, “Do you know anywhere we can find footage of…?”

If you want to read it in its entirety, you can find it here. It’s funny how most of these documentaries are now interviews with the guys that knew the guy, myself included among the “experts”. It’ll be even worse when it gets to the point where they’re interviewing the guy that knew me who knew Hoyt Curtin (or whoever), but it looks like that’s where we’re heading.

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