Chipmunks & Beatles & Monkees with Charles Manson? Oh My! Getting Animated with Author Mark Arnold [Episode 171]

Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

It’s another chapter in The Dialogue Series - A chill ‘n chat with authors, fellow podcasters, musicians, and more. Our guest is Pop Culture Historian Mark Arnold. He’s the author of several books about comic books, music, and animation. Among the books he’s released - The Best of The Harveyville Fun Times!, focused on the comic book publisher Harvey Comics, Created and Produced by Total TeleVision productions: The Story of Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo and the Rest, If You're Cracked, You're Happy: The History of Cracked Magazine, a two-volume set followed in 2011. More recently, Arnold wrote Mark Arnold Picks On The Beatles and Frozen in Ice: The Story of Walt Disney Productions 1966-1985.
Along with a book on The Beatles, Mark has published books on The Monkees, including Long Title: Looking for the Good Times; Examining the Monkees’ Songs, One By One and Headquartered: A Timeline of The Monkees Solo Years. He’s contributed to several publications in the United States, including The Comics Journal, Hogan's Alley, Back Issue!, and Comics Buyer's Guide. Arnold also worked with Jerry Beck and Leslie Cabarga on their Harvey Comics Classics series for Dark Horse Comics. Mark and I talk about The Chipmunks, The Beatles, The Monkees (including the urban legend that Charles Manson tried out for the band!), along with some of Marks’ other favorite classic rock bands and artists. We also detour into our favorite comic books, Disney past, present, and future, our love of The Three Stooges and more!
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