Covering the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs and beyond via the vast Gridley Wave Network. Interviews with fans, professional artists and writers, ERB scholars and more -- with liberal doses of humor from the Barsoomian Blade, the oldest tabloid newspaper on Mars. Email the host, Elmo, at jefflong0220@gmail.com
Saturday, August 29, 2020
Episode 41. Trailer for “Tarzan and the Great River.” Will Pepe make friends with old Baron? Can Tarzan escape the crocodiles? Can the lady doctor save the village with her medicine? Clip from the Tarzan Filmation cartoon series from the 1970s. The 2007 Burroughs Bibiophiles Achievement Award was introduced by Laurence Dunn at the Dum-Dum in Louisville: John Tyner. “This is totally unexpected,” John says. Elmo chats with ERB fan Don Gray. A soundbite from Bobby Williams' “They call me Tarzan.”
Saturday, August 8, 2020
Episode 40 Opening Bit: Carson Napier calls OnStar for directions to Mars. Elmo interviews ERB artist Richard Hescox, who says his favorite Carson cover that he illustrated was Escape on Venus. Later, Hescox is presented with a Golden Lion award and speaks during the 2007 Dum -Dum banquet in Louisville, Kentucky. “I probably would not have been an illustrator were it not for my love of Edgar Rice Burroughs,” he says. Hescox describes his lifelong love of Burroughs and how he came to do the Venus covers.
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