I knew Steven Spielberg was getting an Inkpot Award, but I nearly fell over when I received one too.
July 29, 2011 I wondered why after all these years the San Diego Comic Con invited me to be their guest at this year's show. I was thrilled to go and appear on several panels. What I didn't know, was that before my "Spotlight" panel, I was to be given my own Inkpot Award. I was speechless - for a good ten seconds - a new record! Thank you so much San Diego Comic Con!
(From a Comic Con press release:)
SPOTLIGHT ON DICK DeBARTOLO.
Dick's also an Inkpot winner from Comic Con this year.
Dick's been a writer for Mad Magazine going back to 1966. As of this year, he's been in over 409 consecutive issues. His Mad-type humor was evident throughout the panel. Dick's most interesting stories were about his days on Match Game. The game show was about to be cancelled when, with nothing to lose, he wrote the first of the risque questions that the show would become known for. Thinking the show was done, they came back to him and told him he had to keep writing quesitons like that - for the next 18 years he worked on the show. The questions on the Match Game P.M. would push the boundaries even further. He talked of writing really filthy questions so that his risque ones would seem so bad. His favorite question - "Unlucky Louie was so unlucky. When he lost weight, he lost two inches from his (blank)." Dick finished the hour with a slideshow of some of the best Mad covers and stories behind them.
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