Long ago, boys of a certain age — that would be 12 — would discover Ray Bradbury’s short stories. When Bradbury was a young writer, EC Comics adapted a couple of his stories without credit… or payment. What happened next is explained in this video.
This is the famous, curiously friendly, letter that Bradbury sent to the EC offices.
Update: April 1, 2024. Ed Piskor, one of the voices in that video, has committed suicide. Not an April Fool joke.
I have been Patreon-izing artist Colleen Doran for years. She is one of the entries in my Links list. Click the link and you will see Colleen’s most recent project with Neil Gaiman, illustrating his novel Chivalry, making it a graphic one.
Gaiman is auctioning off some of his worldly, fannish possessions. Some of the proceeds will go to The Hero Initiative, a comics-related charity.
Playtex fabricated the space suits for the Apollo Moon missions. The Playtex logo wasn’t placed on the lunar landers, but the Columbia Sportswear logo is on the Odysseus lander. Columbia’s contribution to the mission was the development of a thermal fabric, based on NASA’s original space blanket from the 60’s.
A fantastic record you’ve never heard, called “I Cannot Stop You”, by a band you’ve never heard of, The Cherry Slush. Released on February 24, 1968, it was on the Billboard hit chart for only three weeks, stuck at #119.
It’s good to be prepared. Anticipating my elderly years, I’ve rediscovered Cream of Wheat. Just two minutes in the microwave!
At the start of the 1990’s, a technology company outside of Boston (a unit of a well-known mobile phone maker) collapsed shortly after completing construction of its beautiful, new headquarters. The building, on the grounds of an historic site dating back to the Revolutionary War, was never occupied. It was put up for sale and my employer submitted a low-ball cash offer of half the asking price.
I was told by someone in the know that the parent company’s rejection of our offer was less polite than saying, “You must be joking.” A year later, with commercial real estate in a slump, and having received no other offers, they came back with their figurative tails between their legs. Was the offer still good? Yep, the same amount, take it or leave it. They took it.
