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Free Alley Oop movie at Ragtag
The Ragtag Cinema is showing the documentary Caveman: V.T. Hamlin and Alley Oop on September 11th at 7:30pm. The Movie is free, and there will be a Q&A afterward with the producer Mark Lambert, current Alley Oop artists Jack and Carole Bender, and local cartoonist Frank Stack.
From the Ragtag website:
Ellis Library’s Special Collections presents a new documentary from Iowa novelist/filmmaker Max Allan Collins, best known as the writer of the graphic novel Road to Perdition. It tells the story of Vincent T. Hamlin, the innovative cartoonist from Iowa who created the dinosaur-laden, long-running comic strip credited with inspiring everything from The Flintstones to Jurassic Park.
I might also mention that while Mark Lambert currently lives in Iowa, he also has a regional tie because he published Two-Fisted Tales of La Plata, Missouri last October. It’s an anthology honoring Lester Dent’s home town of La Plata in central Missouri. (Lambert is also the publisher of Lester Dent: The Man, His Craft and His Market.) Oddly enough, like the character Alley Oop, Lester Dent’s main character Doc Savage also has a 75th anniversary this year.
This is part of several Alley Oop events this month.
Update: You can preorder the DVD at target.com.
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