I was pleasantly surprised by Drawing Comics Lab: 52 Exercises on Characters, Panels, Storytelling, Publishing & Professional Practices by Robyn Chapman. I thought it was…
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Kurt Cobain knew his music. Here is a handwritten list of his favorite albums.
Better get a jumbo stocking for this Calvin and Hobbes tome of the complete adventures of your favorite kid/tiger duo. This time around the set…
The purpose of a soldier is to die.
Whatever you want to do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don’t do it for anyone else.
I still love NY. Designer-artist Sebastian Errazuriz’s New York city studio was paralyzed after Hurricane Sandy. Unable to work and tired of watching the disaster…
Chuck Jones, Tex Avery and Friz Freleng are perceived as the animators who built the foundation of the Warner Brothers animation studio. The McKimson brothers,…
The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy worries me. Jason Kottke got me thinking when he posted this on his site today. He is so right about…
Things we say today which we owe to Shakespeare.
God bless the net. Just when I thought I saw it all. Shoestrology: Discover Your Birthday Shoe is something only your wife could understand. The…
The Life of Pi according to Calvin and Hobbes. With apologies to Yann Martel and Bill Watterson. I could not help myself, a boat, a…
Houston we have a problem. If you never heard of 80legs, you are lucky. One of my main sites was shut down because of this…
Who could forget the classic, Halloween is a Grinch Night from Dr. Seuss. Well, maybe we did all forget. Hard to believe but this cartoon…
Movember is almost here. Time to grow that stache for charity. In the spirit of Movember, this mustachioed fleece neck warmer is ideal for those…
Talk about gimmick. This ‘Color Sensing’ pen can reproduce any color that it detects. In theory it sounds great, but in practice I do not…
Coincidence or luck. Utne Reader captures the Hurricane Sandy disaster as Lady Liberty is knee high in water.
I just don’t get guys who buy action figures (dolls) and leave them in the original packaging. I found this cartoon dead on about the…
Drawn and Quarterly has gone where no graphic novel publisher has gone, they are publishing books geared towards teenage girls. As a father of a…
The original Walking Dead with scaremeister Boris Karloff. Nothing is original anymore, everything is recycled at one point or another.
This sticker set of 55 Weird Wheels was a fun treat for the kids of the early eighties. It’s a send off to classic artist …
The worst Halloween costumes of all time, Leather Guy (Glenn M. Hughes) from the Village People and Chachi from Joanie Loves Chachi. How about a…
George Lucas sold Star Wars to the Dark Side (Walt Disney) for over four billion dollars. The well has run dry, if you can’t create…
I am ashamed to admit but this year I am not giving out Halloween candy. After 15 years I am pulling the plug. I’ll be…