Steve Stanchfield of Cartoon Research presents this cartoon for St. Patrick’s Day.
Sterankohio
She says it again! Wendy Swick, Public Relations Coordinator for the Butler Institute of American Art, repeats the claim that Steranko was Stan Lee’s right-hand man. I am making inquiries to determine where this erroneous idea originated.
Raising in Order to Lower
The Fed has been fueling stock market inflation for a long time. Steven Liesman comments on the Fed finally taking action against consumer inflation.
Liesman asks, can inflation be self-correcting? By putting downward pressure on demand, could inflation ease on its own, without intervention from the Fed? If that were the case it would have happened by now.
Back on July 18 I said, “I don’t see inflation becoming a chronic problem unless income inequality is addressed. Perhaps we’re getting a taste of that, with more people demanding a higher minimum wage.” I’m thinking we are indeed getting a taste of that, resulting from the rise in wages.
It’s an uncomfortable possibility that income inequality is a factor in helping to keep inflation under control. The implication is there has been a benefit to the decline in good paying union jobs. Some smart economist should write a book about this, if there isn’t one already.
Webb is WOW
As concerned as I am about Putin’s criminal invasion of the Ukraine, and the possibility of WWIII, it’s nice to have something as good as this to hear about.
Getting More of an Inkling
I’m going to direct you over to Mark Evanier’s widely-read News From ME blog. He has inside information and interesting insights regarding DC’s bosses assigning an inker for Jack Kirby after he moved there from Marvel.
The Music… and the Voices… in his Head
I watched the new Brian Wilson documentary, Long Promised Road.
Brian certainly deserves all of the credit and good will he receives, but it’s doubtful that he has ever truly been back — and that’s assuming he was ever completely okay.
The two bad guys in Brian’s life story — his father Murry and his longtime therapist Eugene Landy — are given the right amount of attention. There isn’t a lot of new information in the movie, but I didn’t know that Brian’s 34th birthday, in 1976, was celebrated with Paul McCartney, who was born two days before Brian. Which means they will both turn 80 in June.
Later on that year, John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd set up this SNL skit, featuring the first appearance of the car that I assume inspired the duo to come up with the Bluesmobile. The generic use of “Highway Patrol” was probably a nod to the 1950’s TV series with Broderick Crawford.
When they were at the beach, Annie Leibovitz took this photo of Brian for a Rolling Stone cover.
The record Linda McCartney showed to the camera was 15 Big Ones. In the documentary Brian asks a couple of times to hear this song from the album.
