I just think this is really funny.
Sep 08 2007
Score! Original “Andy Capp” for $45.00
So, today I was looking for baby furniture (I’ve heard they can just sleep in a dresser drawer, but my wife isn’t hip to this idea for whatever reason) at a consignment store around the corner from my house and, as I walked by a display case full of gewgaws I did a classic double take and had to bite my tongue lest I have shouted out, “Holy $#@*! Is that an original Reg Smythe Andy Capp strip there?!”
It was indeed–and a really early one no less: December 16th, 1962. Asking price: $45.00. Needless to say, I now own this item. Why do we need a bassinet anyway? I have no intention of letting my child even own a rifle until she’s at least 12, at which point she can buy her own night vision scope or bassinet or whatever else she wants to hook onto it…
Sep 07 2007
Midnight Sun GN Available for Pre-Order
Yep, that’s right–I’m gonna have to wrap up this book and bring it on home, come Hell or high water, ’cause SLG’s taking orders for the thing right now. Here’s the skinny on the book itself:
The year is 1928 and an Italian airship expedition to the North Pole has mysteriously disappeared. Excitement changes to uncertainty when the Italia and her international crew reach the pole, issue a celebratory radio communiqué, and are never heard from again. As a worldwide search effort gears up, a down on his luck American newspaper reporter is dispatched to the top of the Earth to cover the event.
Written and illustrated by Eisner Award nominated cartoonist Ben Towle, this 144 page graphic novel collects the three issues of the SLG Publishing comic book series and then adds in what would have been issues 4-6 in one handsome graphic novel. The complete story will be presented for the first time.
Damn straight it’ll be handsome! Better get you one–no, two–today! You can pre-order the book at a sizable discount directly from SLG:
Here’s the main Midnight Sun promotional page off the SLG site. On it you can:
Pre-order the book from SLG. The posted price there is already 10% off cover, but enter “msun” at the checkout to get an additional 20% off.
…or from Amazon:
If’n you’re one of them sissy-types, what can’t jump in the water until you’ve tested the temperature thereof with your dainty little foot, you might be interested to know that you can download the entire first chapter for free as a PDF on that page as well:
Crazier still is this YouTube “trailer” the folks at SLG have put together for the book:
Sep 05 2007
The Spitsbergen Airship Museum
I had been scouring the web, looking for some illustrations of the airship Italia I wanted to potentially reference for my work on the final chapter of my forthcoming graphic novel, Midnight Sun, when I stumbled on the website for the Spitsbergen Airship Museum. It looks like, at this point, the museum is in-progress and expected to open in 2008. In the meantime, though, they appear to have acquired some pretty amazing airship-related items, including a ton of Italia stuff. Here are a few of the illustrations I had been seeking out; apparently the museum has copies of the original newspapers in its collection:
It’s interesting to note that, although there were only a small handful of books written in English about the Italia disaster, that apparently–judging by the museum’s collection–pretty much everyone involved in the crash itself and/or the subsequent rescue attempts seems to have written a book in his native tongue. The the post-sensational event “book deal” is a phenomenon neither new, nor uniquely American.
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