Angus Oblong is going to be at Wizard World Texas in Arlington next month. On his appearances page he says that if someone brings him a midget, he'll give them a Milo NO. shirt for free. I wonder if Laurel could pass for a midget. If not, I'll just have to bring a chicken sandwich with cheese.

It would be so awesome to get my copy of 13 More ( Read more... )

Ulrich Merkl, publisher of the complete Dream of the Rarebit Fiend, talked to Jessa Crispin of Bookslut (bookslut) about archival comics reprints. Winsor McCay fans might be interested in it.

Link: Ulrich Merkl talks about comic restoration

Earlier this month, eilonwy made me a penguin. I retrieved its parcel from the mail today and thought all afternoon about its name.

I pondered and shook my head to make my brain cells rub together faster and sniffed glue ate dinner before I saw multiple exclamation points and it came to me: POKEY!

One good thing that came from the power outage: Laurel has her own flashlight and our sizable stash of rechargeable batteries should keep it going until the bulb wears out. Now I have to find where I stashed my mini-Maglite to keep her from playing with it ( Read more... )

The latest tack on potty-training: five minutes in the pool for each potty use. We put a small sticker on the calendar for each use and in the afternoon, she gets to go swimming for the earned time. Today she got fifteen minutes in the pool and will hopefully earn another ten before bedtime. *crosses fingers ( Read more... )

( Which Cowboy Bebop character am I? You won't be surprised. )

V. happy to see the return to TV Funhouse in Comedy Central's early Monday AM cartoon lineup. After a few weeks of getting forgettable Duckman and Critic extra eps, Smigel is very, very good.

Carry on.

Slightly edited from Lalo Alcaraz's official mailing list. For those of you not familiar with him, he's a satirist and nationally-recognized editorial cartoonist. Lalo also happens to be one of my personal heroes and a fellow beaner. This is your chance to vote for diversity in your comic pages!

( More reasons and how to vote for Cuco )

It helps if you have a passing knowledge of the SubGenius to appreciate this, but what the heck. It's not often you win with the absolute minimum bid. w00t!

Cherry Comics No. 8 signed by Rev. Ivan Stang(Gentle readers might want to note there is comic nudity. Either way, the comic book has a Dobbshead shown on a screen in one panel. The following ( Read more... )

Thanks to the wonder of syndication on my LJ friends list, I get both Boondocks and SinFest. (Now if I could just get both the comics and commentary of Ted Rall and Lalo Alcaraz, it'd be _perfect_.) For those of you that don't read Boondcocks, Aaron McGruder really hit the nail on the head for me today.


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