Category: Cartooning

Spider-Man In The Sunday Papers

Spidey

I’ve previously highlighted the Spider-Man reprint comics that are found in certain Sunday newspapers. They disappeared from my paper for a few weeks, but they’ve been back for the past four weeks.

Almost all of the art in these stories, now over 40 years old, was done by Steve Ditko. I don’t know about you, but I consider these figure drawings to be compelling and unique. Superb representations of the human form in space and motion, accentuated and made abstract by the best super-hero costume ever designed.

One-of-a-Kind Arlo & Janis

AnJ

AnJ.jpgHey, this is neat. Yesterday, Jimmy Johnson posted a comic strip that I own. I had it professionally framed and it hangs on the wall outside of my office. Click the thumbnail picture to see a larger image of it. Jimmy was kind enough to send this original to me 11 years ago, when Eric was only 3 years old. At the time it seemed it would be forever before he needed to start shaving, but that time is here! Eric, who turns 15 this month, received a Norelco electric razor for Christmas.

Slow South Park

After Colbert tonight I left the TV on for a bit of South Park, a show whose virtues are mostly ignored by me, thanks to its gratuitous profanity. But what hit me this time is how the voices of the kids are, in the tradition of David Seville and the Chipmunks, obviously sped up.

I grabbed 90+ seconds of audio, then slowed it down. A reduction of 25% sounded about right.

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Eric’s Animé Pick

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We’re currently watching a series called Niea7. Here are the opening and closing credits, followed by one of Dalgit’s Tidbits. Don’t ask for an explanation! I could have included the sub-titles with translation, but it wouldn’t help.

The guy singing the theme song, Sion, makes Bob Dylan sound velvet-voiced! The closing song is a typically happy and sweet female vocal.