This isn’t a happy post…this is kind if bummer.  Today I read an article online from a recent conference in New York in which a high ranking member of Marvel Comics openly discussed the mindset behind price increases on books.

You can read it here:  http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/05/more-on-marvels-price-increases/

Going through the ( Read more... )

I love good pin-up art. There's just something about it.  I guess it fits in with my whole retro fashion I-wish-we-were-living-in-the-50's Americana daydreams.  From the father's of the style: Vargas, Elvgren (GOD! I frickin' love Elvgren's work), MacPherson etc. to the modern wizards like Richie Fahey, Olivia DeBarardinis, and even (to a certain ( Read more... )

No...seriously.

I found this on another LJer's site (hope she doesn't mind my swiping it.)

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Duke of New York...where ever you are...they still remember you man!