“M” is a pretty rich letter animal-wise. I went with the mandarin duck mainly because of my love of the children’s book The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks. It’s for sure a lot of fun to re-read books from my own childhood (George and Martha, Tomi Ungerer’s stuff, Sendak, etc.) with my daughter, but I …
Tag: Animal Alphabet
Jun 20 2011
Animal Alphabet: L is for Long-Tailed Weasel
Jun 13 2011
Animal Alphabet: K is for Kingfisher
When folks hear “kingfisher,” they’re usually going to think of the belted kingfisher, but there are many different varieties of kingfishers. This one is a common kingfisher (also called a river kingfisher). You can follow the other “K” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AnimalAlphabet hashtag. To see all …
Jun 06 2011
Heroes Con 2011 – Day 3
Sunday My Sunday at Heroes Con started out with an interesting–if sparsely attended–panel: “Historical Comics” with Becky Cloonan, Chris Schweizer, Don Rosa and me. It made me wonder if maybe having the first panel each day start an hour (or half hour) after opening might be a good idea, since that would allow time for …
Jun 06 2011





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