Tomorrow is Hallowe’en — All Hallows’ Eve, if you don’t want want to get lazy about it — which makes today Hallowe’ene’en. I’m not sure that designation will catch on, but I thought you’d want to know. This being Hallowe’ene’en and all, what could be more appropriate than a Common Elements artwork featuring a witch [...]
Archive for October 2009
Comic Art Friday: Witches and warlocks
October 30, 2009Not unique
October 29, 2009I would have written about this before now, except that I didn’t know about it until today, when a member of an online forum that I frequent brought it to my attention. A couple of weeks ago, I surrendered a distinction that I’ve held all by my lonesome for the past 21 years. Since June [...]
What’s Up With That? #82: Busted bridge
October 28, 2009I’m not a structural engineer, but… If the recently repaired chunk of the Bay Bridge can be taken out by a stiff wind, why should we have confidence that it could withstand a major earthquake — which is the reason they’re doing all of this work on the Bay Bridge in the first place? Seems [...]
Comic Art Friday: Wonder Woman Day is Sunday!
October 23, 2009In addition to October being National Breast Cancer Awareness Month — a fact of which you, friend reader, have already been made aware — this is also National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Which means that Sunday is Wonder Woman Day. For the past three years, the last Sunday in October has been celebrated as Wonder [...]
Soup’s gone
October 22, 2009So I come home tonight after a long day at the hospital with KJ, and the first thing I read on the news is that Soupy Sales died. Go ahead, world… tear away another piece of my childhood. Although I’m too young to have been around for his infamous kids’ shows from the 1950s and [...]
Comic Art Friday: RIP, George Tuska
October 16, 2009Sad news this Comic Art Friday… George Tuska, a comic artist whose career began in the earliest days of comic books, passed away last night at the age of 93. Only a week or so ago, I received notice via the Comic Art collectors’ e-mail list that Tuska had decided to stop accepting new commissions. [...]
It’s only news if somebody cares
October 15, 2009This just in from the world of music… Country star Garth Brooks is ending his retirement. At the same time, the Norwegian pop trio a-ha — best known for the ’80s hit “Take On Me,” and its influential video — is announcing its retirement. Here’s the unfortunate news for these artists. No one knew that [...]
The Not Having Been Discovered Yet List
October 12, 2009I hope you’re enjoying your Columbus Day — or, as I prefer to call it, Not Having Been Discovered Yet Day (an homage to the late, great comic genius, Flip Wilson). Sure, Christopher Columbus was directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands — some historians suggest millions — of indigenous North Americans. And [...]
Comic Art Friday: She’s a ringer!
October 9, 2009In honor of the discovery earlier this week of Saturn’s Phoebe ring — the largest planetary ring in the solar system by a factor of a bazillion — today’s Comic Art Friday salutes the one superheroine who could have told us the doggoned thing was there all along: Saturn Girl. In the 30th century, vivacious [...]
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