Happy Birthday, Steve Katsos

 Love the classics. 

Bonus Komics

Steve Katsos just turned fifty this weekend. I almost shared these two panels from his "Katman" comic on Facebook but thought better of it. It's amazing what was deemed controversial back in the days of what was then Framingham State College and what caused so many headaches at The Gatepost. Funny enough, campus police jokes were fine.

Happy Birthday, Steve Katsos

 

 

Gatepost Sausage Party

 

 

No women editors from the nineties crew came to the Gatepost 90th Birthday celebration. Here are all the men who were in attendance. 

 

Above we have John Bulens, John Cox, me, Steve Katsos, Jason Portanova, Joe Murphy, Advisor Emeritus Desmond McCarthy and Bret Kerr,

All of us old AF.

The Gatepost Turns Ninety

When I worked on the student newspaper for Framingham State University, it was still called Framingham State College. I contributed to the 80th anniversary celebration of The Gatepost ten years ago. Now they're celebrating their ninetieth anniversary with an article that interviews several of my former colleagues including Bret Kerr, Joe Murphy, Suzanne McDonald, Phil LeClare and Steve "I'm the only reason most of you are reading this" Katsos.  

It's a nice read for me, but I wish they could interview some of the younger generation and ask questions like, "How do you feel about spending your college years in the world of print journalism after it lost all credibility in the early 2000's and started to die a slow death that miraculously and horrifically continues to this day?"

Happy Belated Birthday Steve Katsos

This is Steve Katsos. He had me on the most recent and well known iteration of his TV show. I was on the first ever episode. He sneezed on me in mid-read. It's still one of the top five audience reactions to my work I've ever witnessed.

Today's #TBT

In 2009, I had the pleasure of being invited as a guest to the first ever episode of The Steve Katsos show.In the ten years since, Mr. Katsos has featured a great number of musicians, a cavalcade of comics and...one poet (me). He ended up sneezing on me during our interview, and he soon discovered he was allergic to poets (or at least me, and he didn't want to take another chance).

Steve and I had worked on a number of projects in college, where my friends and I enjoyed watching VCR tapes of his public access show, "The Missing Tooth." It was a pleasure to take part in the launching of his now ten year old show and a privilege to be the opening act for his show's one year anniversary celebration.

Steve is hanging up his mic for now to focus on his family. I have no doubt he's making the right decision and that he'll also come back bigger than ever some day.

Congratulations on a great run, Steve. Big or small screen, stage or YouTube, I'm sure I'll see you back to entertain us. 

Happy Birthday Steve Katsos

Hope today is like Christmas.

Happy Birthday, Steve Katsos

To celebrate, I offer this relic, an old business card from Steve's first cable talk show "The Missing Tooth," which I would see tapes of back when we were in college.

Happy Birthday, Steve Katsos

Best B-Day Wishes to  to Boston's burgeoning media mogul. Here's a selection of prior B-Day posts I've done for Steve in the past.

 

Steve Katsos as Cartoonist (a Belated Birthday Posting)

I would have posted this yesterday as part of my Happy Birthday Steve fest if not for the fact that I had an internet show to do and was running late. I posted this stuff on Facebook years go but wanted to show them again with more back story.

Steve Katsos was best known to me for a long time as just a funny guy and a cartoonist for Framingham State College's student paper The Gatepost. I read and saved his Katman comic, which I thought was hilarious, as it often had cameos by people I know. I made an appearance of sorts early on, but that's a story for later (later meaning when I have time to scan again).

Steve Katsos as Shock Jock

Here's another installment in my Happy Birthday Steve posts. While Steve Katsos worked on his first TV show The Missing Tooth, he also had a radio show at Framingham State College (now Framingham State University)."Frequency Alterations," his WDJM show with John Cox, ran for an all-too-short time in his college career.

Happy Birthday, Steve Katsos

In honor of commemorating Steve's day of birth, I'll show some blasts from our shared past.

Before Steve Katsos became a local media mogul on the rise, we both worked at Framingham State College's student run paper The Gatepost. He started as a cartoonist and humor writer before he rose in the ranks to become Editor-in-Chief. Sadly, I graduated the semester before that and missed his EIC reign entirely. Still, there were probably more laughs when Steve was just on the sidelines making funny asides during our editorial meetings.

The above picture comes from a photo used in Steve's The Katpost, a entire Gatepost 1-2 pager usually published before the winter break and dedicated to all things Steve, including his brother's band Gumshoe, his humor column and/or horoscope and his comic Katman.

The large facsimilie of a rolled up Gatepost in the background? That's another story.

And Since I'm in a Nostalgic Mood Today

Steve Katsos in the offices of The Gatepost putting together his ultimate vanity project The Katpost.  His crowning achievement until his Steve Katsos Show, which recently celebrated its fourth anniversary.  congratulations, Steve!

Steve Katsos at Gatepost headquarters. Behind him is his rolled-up newspaper costume that helped him secure his "Mr. FSC" title in 1993. I officially remember too much.