When I was seventeen, it was a very good year for small town girls.
Sinatra sang “the days are short” when he was fifty!
Author: DOuG pRATt
He shoots! He scores!
Jimmy Johnson recently had an online sale of some Arlo & Janis originals. Yes, actual ink on paper, can you believe that? I decided on buying one of the offerings, but my guess was it wouldn’t sell right away. Indeed, it was still available on the last day of the sale when I bought it. What interested me is the first three panels show Jimmy was trying something different. I especially like the third panel, with the unusual angle and the drawing of the shingles and clapboard.
The strip’s year isn’t written anywhere on the original, so I penciled it on the back. With the color added by computer, the action lines in the first two panels were reversed to white.
O.B.I.T.uary
“The machines are everywhere! And they will demoralize you, break your spirits, create such rifts and tensions in your society that no one will be able to repair them!”
Eddie Muller on 4-Color Noir
Kudos to Eddie Muller for his Noir Alley introduction on Turner Classic Movies to “While the City Sleeps” (1956). Based on a novel where a serial killer was a religious fanatic, the film instead blamed the influence of comic books. Muller says, “I spent my entire youth, and a lot of my adult life, reading these… and it didn’t harm me one bit.”
For Fanboys Only
50th Anniversary Outrage
Yesterday, in the presence of Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, who didn’t look very happy — in fact, nobody appeared to be pleased — Trump reversed his previous tepid disapproval of the “send her back” chanting at this week’s campaign rally. Doubling down on his original suggestion that Democratic House Representative Ilhan Omar should leave the country, Trump now describes the North Carolina crowd as “incredible patriots.”
I was undecided on whether or not the House of Representatives should vote to impeach Trump, but enough is enough. Pelosi should drop her “moderation in all things” strategy for the 2020 election and do the right thing. Impeach the bum.