Happy Birthday, Marc Silvestri
March 29, 2011
Our Valued Customers
March 28, 2011This daily blog is a guaranteed laugh as MrTim, a comic store employee/cartoonist, offers up a look at real customers and the real things they say that offer a humorous insight into the minds of comic book customers. As the blog says: This site depicts REAL things said to me (or at least near me) [...]
Happy Birthday, Mike Friedrich
March 27, 2011“Clark…you asshole!”
March 22, 2011This poster had me laughing out loud.
Wonder Woman’s TV Costume Revealed
March 19, 2011The Beginnings of Barry Windsor-Smith
March 18, 2011Over at Comic Book Resources, Brian Cronin has been posting a new month-long series that examines the first US pro comic work by notable creators! His latest post is a look at the incredible Barry Windsor-Smith back in 1968 when he was just 20 years old and just Barry Smith. Go enjoy the nascent artwork [...]
The Nerd Bucket List
March 17, 2011Over at Newsarama, contributor Jill Pantozzi (who also blogs as The Nerdy Bird under the “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” heading) has written out her Nerd Bucket List. The reference, of course, is to the movie starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as “two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on [...]
“Here Fifi! C’mon!…Faster Fifi!”
March 16, 2011When it comes to syndicated cartoons, two of my favorites are The Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes. Unfortunately both of them are no longer produced, so I have to depend on “Best Of” or “Gallery” collections of past cartoons to keep me in my usual humorous frame of mind. I have a couple of [...]
Plastic-Man Humor
March 9, 2011This made me laugh!
“The Coming Of Conan!”
March 8, 2011Conan The Barbarian (the title alone sounded so…powerful) #1 was cover-dated October, 1970, just after my 15th birthday in July. I was a freshman in high school and we had just moved from Hialeah, where I had lived most of my life at that point, to south Miami. For years I had looked forward to [...]
