I’m struggling to get enough done around the house to justify to myself sitting at the drawing board for more than a few minutes at a time. Until then I’ll stick with a pencil, because ink is forever.
Category: Cartooning
Ireland in Ohio
Whenever this blasted pandemic has abated enough to make plane travel sufficiently safe, I will visit the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum in Columbus, Ohio. I haven’t been to Columbus since giving a technical talk at the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) many, many years ago.
Until I can get to the museum, this virtual tour will have to suffice. I recommend watching it all the way through. One of today’s best single panel cartoonists, Hilary Price, makes an appearance, as does the voice of a surprise special commentator. I know that one of my Facebook friends knows him, but I’ve never before heard him speak.
The Undecided
You’d have to be a birdbrain to not know who you’re voting for president on November 3rd!
Suburban moms will be a critical voting bloc on election day. Many of them are struggling with managing their kids at home, who are attending school online. Voting by mail must be like a coronavirus vaccine — safe and effective!
Shocking Coronavirus Origin Revealed!
It was created from bats by a secret society in a Japanese laboratory in 1971, and its evil leader knew to wear a surgical mask!
https://youtu.be/hm6IAFmZoJw
Talk About Pictures
This is my second post in three months featuring Brian Walker, offering some insider chat about comic strips.
Getting Back to Getting Rid of
Yesterday I received my copy of Atlas at War!, an excellent collection of pre-Marvel war comics. The book includes six stories illustrated by Joe Sinnott, whose passing continues to sadden me.
I am enjoying the Atlas war book, and the recently released Marvel mini-comics book, and the new CD compilation of psychedelic singles from the defunct White Whale record label. I am looking forward to an upcoming graphic novel illustrated by Colleen Doran and, most of all, a companion book to Peter Jackson’s long-anticipated re-release of Let It Be in a greatly expanded edition.
But I have a problem with all of this enjoyment by acquisition. It goes back to everything I had to do after my father’s death, nearly three years ago. One part of that was the monumental amount of work clearing everything out of the house. It was a painful process, from first shipping the items that were wanted by my siblings, through making the threat of legal action to get money from the company that ran the estate sale. Dealing with the Kia dealership in Peoria, Arizona that bought my father’s 2014 Soul was a comparable nightmare.
My point is that, being an old retired guy, I want to begin the process of de-cluttering my possessions and, in turn, my life. Buying more stuff isn’t the way to do that.