Every now and then life allows me to do some fun things. Like the
Doug Wright Awards, which writer-director-actor
Don McKellar has helped out with the past couple of years. This summer Don asked me to lend a hand with finding some comics that he could incorporate into a new TV series he was directing in Ottawa (my hometown). The show,
Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays, is about an anxiety ridden young man and his relationship with his therapist, who also has his own neuroses. So far, it is very funny and charming.
Part of a recent episode deals with Michael having a gal over to his apartment, which is decorated with many geeky accoutrements, including posters for alt-comics. Spotlighted in
the episode are Yoshihiro Tatsumi's
Black Blizzard and Joe Ollmann's
Mid-Life.
The episode may contain the only joke I have ever seen that is built upon a knowledge of the comics of Tastumi.
(Many thanks to Drawn and Quarterly for securing the permission to use these.)
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