Sorry haven’t been blogging since I’ve got back but I hit the ground running when I got back. That and jetlag really kicked my butt. Comic-con is just around the corner and I putting together a killer show – one of the best I’ve ever done and then going on the road with it. I’ll write more about that later right now I want to address a tragedy that occurred last week – Michael Jackson’s untimely death.

Unfortunately, I had never met Michael but, like everyone in the world it seems, I dug his music, well most of it. Actually the first thing I thought when I heard about him was Weird Al’s parody of “Beat it” with “Eat it” and my favorite the parody of “I’m Bad” with “I’m Fat!” Weird Al in a fat suit cracks me up. It seems Michael was cool with the joke by first approving the lyrics and letting Weird Al film “I’m Fat” on the same subway set. How cool is that.

But the closest I ever got to the Michael Jackson train was through animator Jim Blashfield when he created the Jackson music video for “Leave me Alone.” We showed the video in our Original Festival and it always got a great reaction. Not only is it a great song but the animation is ground breaking. In it Jim combines, cutout, clay, and drawings all to the beat of Jackson’s song. I think it’s one of Jim’s best.

It is sad when someone that young and talented dies and I hoped we get to see some footage of his rehearsals of his latest tour. RIP Michael.