Looks Like I’m Gonna Have to go to Washington

“Cartoon America” Opens Nov. 2 – The Library of Congress

The exhibition will feature 100 masterworks of such celebrated artists
as political cartoonists Thomas Nast, Rube Goldberg, Bill Mauldin and
Patrick Oliphant; comic strip creators Winsor McCay, George Herriman,
Chic Young, Milt Caniff, Charles Schulz and Lynn Johnston; humorous gag
cartoonists Peter Arno and William Steig; caricaturists Al Hirschfeld
and David Levine; animation drawings and cels from Walt Disney
Productions and Hanna-Barbera; and illustrations by Edwin A. Abbey,
John Held and Michael Hague.

Red Auerbach 1917-2006

I neither know nore care much about basketball, but this guy was apparently a friend of my grandfather, Hardy Pearce.  They both attended George Washington Univeristy, and are both GW Hall of Famers.

It’s Halloween!

Midnight Sun #2: In Stores November 8th

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Coming out a week later than expected (surprisingly, for resons having nothing to do with me!) Midnight Sun #2 will be in Comic Book Stores Wednesday, November 8th. 

Lucas vs. Diesel Sweeties

Here’s an interesting page some folks have been linking to, in the aftermath of the Lucasfilm “cease and desist” letter to Richard Stevens, creator of the webcomic Diesel Sweeties as well as vendor of some admittedly Star Wars-ey merch (note: images of said merch will likely be gone in a few days).

Re. the page: I’m never sure what to make of these sorts of things.  Lucas (and pretty much everyone else doing work in the visual realm) either consciously or unconsciously borrows bits and pieces of things here and there, and I think it’s pretty easy to select a few striking similarities, selected from a vast pool of very very unsimilar things, and then count on people’s norirously poor understainding of statistics and probablity (any believers in the “hot hand” in basketball out there?) to make the case for swipiing.  But, it’s interesting to see at any rate: