I was known to have read a few comic books in my younger days. A few thousand. Click the picture to read a fun 8-page story, “Lost in the Microcosm,” by Harvey Kurtzman. For easier reading, select “full-size” in the gallery.
Draft Copy
Uh … was I supposed to sign my draft card?
Dreaming of the Past

In honor of my twinster Jean’s birthday, here’s something I know she likes. Winsor McCay’s still-amazing animation, Little Nemo in Slumberland (1911).
Report Colbert
Stephen Colbert is deserving of all the praise his show, The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, has received. And there’s no point in trying to knock Colbert, because I’m covering my ears and humming and can’t hear you. Here’s a 60 Minutes feature about him.
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Pratt Attack – 4
The movie It’s a Wonderful Life was based on a short story called The Greatest Gift, which starts with these sentences:
The little town straggling up the hill was bright with colored Christmas lights. But George Pratt did not see them.
This is the George Pratt I know. My dad. Mom is gone.
Womb Mates
Happy birthday to my identical twin sister Jeanie Beanie! As she requested, here are the opening credits to It’s a Wonderful Life, a modest little movie that lanquished for many years in public domain obscurity.