Today was the 25th anniversary of Arlo and Janis!
Oops! Wrong Arlo and Janis. Here’s an Arlo and Janis original I got from Jimmy Johnson fifteen years ago, when Eric was only three. And now he’s shaving!
Congratulations, and thanks, to Jimmy for creating my favorite comic strip.
Last week at the San Diego Comic-Con, this fanboy was wandering around the dealers room, like thousands of others, grabbing free stuff. But who is he? If you don’t recognize him, hover over the picture to find out.
It was fanatics vs. fans at the San Diego Comic-Con!
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/07/22/super-heroes-vs-the-westboro-baptist-church/
John 8:7 says, “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” It does not continue with Jesus saying, “So somebody get me a rock! A big, jagged one.” Which is what the members of the Westboro Baptist Church seem to believe.
When the Boston Globe started printing its daily comics in color, there were complaints from some readers, claiming to be comic-strip purists, but my only complaint is when the color is printed off-register.
Here is Arlo and Janis from a few days ago, as it appeared in the Metrowest Daily News. Do the mouse-over thing to see how it appeared in the Boston Globe. The color adds a lot to the mood, don’t you think?
How much longer will there be printed newspapers? Ten years? Five?
The 2010 San Diego Comic-Con is coming up soon. Over on Comic-Convention Memories, there are batches of photos taken at the San Diego con in 1974.
Here’s a pic of MAD cartoonist Sergio Aragonés. No! Wait! That’s not Sergio, it’s Peanuts animator Bill Melendez.
And here’s his de facto boss, Sparky Schulz, when he was — yikes! — a couple of years younger than I am now!
With special guest star, director Frank Capra! Frank Capra?? He attended a comic-book convention in 1974??? That was several years after his autobiography, The Name Above the Title, and ten years before She’s a Wonderful Wife — er, I mean It’s a Wonderful Life — was rescued from public domain abuse and rightly hailed as one of the all-time great movies.
My lack of worldliness and poor political acumen are leaving me perplexed. Why would the Russians consider this woman to be a good candidate for training as an alleged spy? What made them think she could possibly be able to gain access to the private quarters of influential men? Here’s another picture of her I found, training in Russia.
